Climate twins of New York Mills, MN

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

Top match: Warba, MN

Month New York Mills Warba
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 17.0°F -1.9°F 0.38 in 18.9°F -1.5°F 0.97 in
February 22.3°F 1.1°F 0.63 in 25.7°F 2.1°F 0.85 in
March 35.0°F 15.5°F 0.91 in 38.8°F 15.4°F 1.33 in
April 50.5°F 29.1°F 2.02 in 52.6°F 28.0°F 2.10 in
May 63.8°F 42.2°F 3.33 in 66.1°F 40.2°F 3.23 in
June 74.1°F 53.0°F 4.48 in 75.2°F 50.5°F 4.70 in
July 79.0°F 58.0°F 4.86 in 79.7°F 55.4°F 4.14 in
August 76.3°F 55.0°F 3.15 in 77.8°F 53.2°F 3.40 in
September 68.5°F 46.6°F 2.94 in 68.1°F 44.7°F 3.05 in
October 52.2°F 33.3°F 2.53 in 52.8°F 33.3°F 2.79 in
November 36.3°F 19.5°F 0.82 in 36.1°F 20.1°F 1.59 in
December 22.8°F 6.5°F 0.83 in 23.1°F 6.5°F 1.23 in

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 →