Climate twins of New Town, ND

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches New Town'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 Town vs its climate twin

Top match: Hamberg, ND

Month	New Town			Hamberg
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	22.4°F	3.8°F	0.52 in	18.8°F	1.2°F	0.37 in
February	27.3°F	7.6°F	0.45 in	23.6°F	5.3°F	0.44 in
March	40.3°F	18.6°F	0.71 in	35.7°F	17.0°F	0.46 in
April	56.0°F	29.6°F	1.12 in	53.5°F	29.3°F	0.90 in
May	67.4°F	40.7°F	2.64 in	66.8°F	41.8°F	2.74 in
June	75.8°F	50.4°F	3.32 in	75.2°F	52.5°F	3.22 in
July	83.0°F	55.4°F	2.95 in	80.4°F	56.5°F	2.91 in
August	83.4°F	54.2°F	1.67 in	80.5°F	54.2°F	2.04 in
September	73.1°F	45.0°F	1.85 in	71.6°F	45.9°F	2.08 in
October	56.2°F	32.3°F	1.35 in	55.4°F	32.9°F	1.08 in
November	38.5°F	19.6°F	0.72 in	36.2°F	18.6°F	0.56 in
December	25.9°F	8.2°F	0.60 in	23.1°F	6.3°F	0.47 in

Cities that consider New Town their climate twin

These US cities have New Town in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, New Town would feel familiar.

Haynes, ND (ranks New Town #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 →