Climate twins of New Rockford, ND
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches New Rockford'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 Rockford vs its climate twin
Top match: Thompson, ND
| Month | New Rockford | Thompson | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 18.3°F | -1.5°F | 0.53 in | 15.3°F | -1.3°F | 0.49 in |
| February | 23.1°F | 2.1°F | 0.42 in | 20.4°F | 2.5°F | 0.56 in |
| March | 35.8°F | 15.3°F | 0.75 in | 34.0°F | 16.7°F | 0.91 in |
| April | 53.2°F | 28.7°F | 1.25 in | 52.0°F | 31.0°F | 1.19 in |
| May | 67.2°F | 41.9°F | 2.76 in | 66.5°F | 43.5°F | 2.99 in |
| June | 76.4°F | 53.3°F | 3.78 in | 75.9°F | 54.8°F | 4.13 in |
| July | 81.7°F | 57.3°F | 3.60 in | 80.1°F | 58.8°F | 3.55 in |
| August | 80.7°F | 54.4°F | 2.33 in | 79.2°F | 56.5°F | 3.03 in |
| September | 71.8°F | 45.3°F | 1.97 in | 69.7°F | 47.4°F | 2.42 in |
| October | 55.2°F | 31.9°F | 1.90 in | 53.3°F | 34.5°F | 2.00 in |
| November | 37.1°F | 17.9°F | 0.67 in | 35.0°F | 19.6°F | 0.83 in |
| December | 22.8°F | 5.0°F | 0.81 in | 21.0°F | 5.8°F | 0.73 in |
Cities that consider New Rockford their climate twin
These US cities have New Rockford in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, New Rockford would feel familiar.
- East Grand Forks, MN (ranks New Rockford #1)
- Thompson, ND (ranks New Rockford #1)
- Grand Forks, ND (ranks New Rockford #1)
- Fisher, MN (ranks New Rockford #2)
- Crookston, MN (ranks New Rockford #3)
- Hillsview, SD (ranks New Rockford #1)
- Kennedy, MN (ranks New Rockford #1)
- Donaldson, MN (ranks New Rockford #1)
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 →