Climate twins of Northome, MN

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

Top match: Proctor, MN

Month Northome Proctor
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 16.9°F -4.9°F 0.77 in 18.1°F 0.7°F 0.92 in
February 23.0°F -2.4°F 0.64 in 23.8°F 4.3°F 0.95 in
March 35.0°F 9.7°F 1.20 in 35.8°F 17.1°F 1.35 in
April 49.5°F 26.2°F 1.82 in 48.6°F 28.7°F 2.50 in
May 62.8°F 39.3°F 3.01 in 63.0°F 40.2°F 3.20 in
June 72.1°F 51.1°F 4.23 in 71.2°F 49.7°F 4.49 in
July 77.1°F 54.7°F 3.84 in 76.4°F 55.9°F 4.13 in
August 75.8°F 52.3°F 3.20 in 74.8°F 55.2°F 3.55 in
September 67.0°F 44.7°F 3.10 in 66.1°F 47.3°F 3.50 in
October 52.4°F 34.1°F 2.68 in 52.0°F 35.7°F 3.02 in
November 34.7°F 19.3°F 1.36 in 35.0°F 21.8°F 1.98 in
December 21.8°F 3.8°F 1.03 in 22.6°F 8.3°F 1.34 in

Cities that consider Northome their climate twin

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

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 →