Climate twins of Palermo, ND
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Palermo'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: Palermo vs its climate twin
Top match: Overly, ND
| Month | Palermo | Overly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 17.3°F | -0.6°F | 0.54 in | 15.1°F | -5.6°F | 0.46 in |
| February | 21.5°F | 2.5°F | 0.55 in | 20.0°F | -2.1°F | 0.50 in |
| March | 34.2°F | 14.0°F | 0.79 in | 33.1°F | 11.2°F | 0.77 in |
| April | 51.4°F | 26.4°F | 1.33 in | 51.8°F | 25.5°F | 1.11 in |
| May | 64.4°F | 38.1°F | 2.49 in | 65.7°F | 37.4°F | 2.61 in |
| June | 73.1°F | 49.0°F | 3.86 in | 74.5°F | 48.9°F | 3.82 in |
| July | 79.7°F | 53.9°F | 3.09 in | 80.0°F | 53.3°F | 2.81 in |
| August | 80.3°F | 51.7°F | 2.14 in | 80.1°F | 50.2°F | 2.43 in |
| September | 69.6°F | 42.1°F | 1.82 in | 70.1°F | 40.3°F | 1.69 in |
| October | 52.8°F | 29.4°F | 1.31 in | 53.6°F | 28.1°F | 1.32 in |
| November | 34.8°F | 16.3°F | 0.73 in | 34.9°F | 14.3°F | 0.79 in |
| December | 22.2°F | 5.2°F | 0.63 in | 20.9°F | 1.5°F | 0.64 in |
Cities that consider Palermo their climate twin
These US cities have Palermo in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Palermo would feel familiar.
- Overly, ND (ranks Palermo #3)
- Leeds, ND (ranks Palermo #3)
- Hannah, ND (ranks Palermo #3)
- Loma, ND (ranks Palermo #3)
- Wales, ND (ranks Palermo #3)
- Rolla, ND (ranks Palermo #3)
- St. John, ND (ranks Palermo #3)
- Perth, ND (ranks Palermo #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 →