Climate twins of New Effington, SD
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches New Effington's. Each "twin" must be at least 140 miles away to avoid trivial near-neighbor matches. Similarity is computed across all 24 monthly metrics (12 average temperatures + 12 average precipitations), normalized so temperature and precipitation contribute equally.
Side-by-side: New Effington vs its climate twin
Top match: Motley, MN
| Month | New Effington | Motley | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 19.5°F | 0.9°F | 0.78 in | 17.8°F | -1.2°F | 0.63 in |
| February | 23.9°F | 4.1°F | 0.69 in | 23.8°F | 2.8°F | 0.60 in |
| March | 36.7°F | 17.5°F | 1.20 in | 36.5°F | 16.3°F | 1.24 in |
| April | 53.4°F | 31.3°F | 2.30 in | 51.0°F | 30.7°F | 2.38 in |
| May | 67.9°F | 44.5°F | 3.07 in | 65.2°F | 45.2°F | 3.41 in |
| June | 77.3°F | 56.1°F | 4.17 in | 74.6°F | 56.0°F | 4.11 in |
| July | 81.5°F | 59.6°F | 3.63 in | 78.9°F | 61.0°F | 4.36 in |
| August | 79.7°F | 56.6°F | 2.89 in | 76.8°F | 58.7°F | 3.31 in |
| September | 72.1°F | 47.3°F | 2.72 in | 67.6°F | 49.4°F | 2.66 in |
| October | 56.8°F | 34.4°F | 2.46 in | 53.2°F | 35.7°F | 2.63 in |
| November | 39.3°F | 21.0°F | 1.03 in | 37.3°F | 22.4°F | 1.03 in |
| December | 25.4°F | 8.5°F | 0.84 in | 23.6°F | 7.9°F | 0.74 in |
Cities that consider New Effington their climate twin
These US cities have New Effington in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, New Effington would feel familiar.
- Bird Island, MN (ranks New Effington #2)
How this is computed
Each city is represented by a 24-dimensional vector: 12 monthly average temperatures and 12 monthly average precipitations. Each dimension is z-score normalized across the population of US cities, so that temperature variance and precipitation variance contribute proportionally. Distance between cities is Euclidean. We filter out cities within 2° latitude/longitude (~140 miles) so that "twins" mean climatically similar but geographically distinct — not just the neighboring town. Full methodology →