Climate twins of Orr, MN

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Orr'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.

Rank 1 closest
Williams, MN
similarity distance: 1.197 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Grygla, MN
similarity distance: 1.289 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Goodridge, MN
similarity distance: 1.289 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Orr vs its climate twin

Top match: Williams, MN

Month Orr Williams
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 14.9°F -7.9°F 0.90 in 14.2°F -6.5°F 0.79 in
February 20.9°F -6.1°F 0.65 in 20.1°F -3.2°F 0.69 in
March 33.8°F 8.3°F 0.88 in 34.0°F 11.1°F 0.88 in
April 48.0°F 23.1°F 1.72 in 49.1°F 25.8°F 1.46 in
May 61.2°F 35.1°F 2.73 in 63.2°F 38.9°F 2.93 in
June 70.9°F 45.7°F 4.16 in 72.5°F 50.2°F 3.99 in
July 75.3°F 50.7°F 4.13 in 77.6°F 53.5°F 3.52 in
August 74.0°F 48.0°F 3.06 in 75.9°F 51.5°F 3.45 in
September 64.3°F 41.4°F 2.97 in 66.0°F 44.0°F 3.06 in
October 49.5°F 30.7°F 2.33 in 50.3°F 31.0°F 2.31 in
November 33.4°F 17.4°F 1.50 in 33.3°F 16.2°F 1.14 in
December 20.7°F 2.2°F 1.00 in 19.8°F 1.7°F 0.86 in

Cities that consider Orr their climate twin

These US cities have Orr in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Orr 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 →