Climate twins of New Salem, ND
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches New Salem'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 Salem vs its climate twin
Top match: Streeter, ND
| Month | New Salem | Streeter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 21.2°F | 1.8°F | 0.38 in | 19.1°F | 0.8°F | 0.47 in |
| February | 26.2°F | 5.8°F | 0.43 in | 23.1°F | 4.3°F | 0.44 in |
| March | 38.6°F | 17.6°F | 0.71 in | 35.8°F | 16.4°F | 0.70 in |
| April | 53.6°F | 29.0°F | 1.50 in | 51.9°F | 29.0°F | 1.23 in |
| May | 66.1°F | 40.6°F | 2.66 in | 65.0°F | 41.8°F | 2.79 in |
| June | 75.4°F | 50.6°F | 3.45 in | 74.1°F | 53.1°F | 3.61 in |
| July | 82.6°F | 55.9°F | 2.83 in | 80.1°F | 58.2°F | 3.35 in |
| August | 82.2°F | 54.1°F | 2.16 in | 79.2°F | 55.8°F | 2.38 in |
| September | 72.4°F | 44.8°F | 1.73 in | 69.8°F | 46.3°F | 2.09 in |
| October | 55.9°F | 31.3°F | 1.38 in | 54.7°F | 33.0°F | 1.60 in |
| November | 39.1°F | 18.1°F | 0.58 in | 38.0°F | 19.5°F | 0.59 in |
| December | 26.0°F | 7.0°F | 0.52 in | 24.6°F | 7.8°F | 0.59 in |
Cities that consider New Salem their climate twin
These US cities have New Salem in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, New Salem would feel familiar.
- Streeter, ND (ranks New Salem #3)
- Long Lake, SD (ranks New Salem #2)
- Ashley, ND (ranks New Salem #1)
- Wibaux, MT (ranks New Salem #3)
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 →