Climate twins of Prairie Rose, ND
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Prairie Rose'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: Prairie Rose vs its climate twin
Top match: Naples, SD
| Month | Prairie Rose | Naples | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 17.3°F | -2.1°F | 0.67 in | 21.1°F | 3.5°F | 0.62 in |
| February | 22.0°F | 1.2°F | 0.66 in | 25.9°F | 7.1°F | 0.62 in |
| March | 35.2°F | 16.4°F | 1.15 in | 38.7°F | 18.9°F | 1.03 in |
| April | 52.9°F | 30.4°F | 1.58 in | 53.3°F | 31.5°F | 2.14 in |
| May | 68.1°F | 44.0°F | 3.10 in | 66.4°F | 44.6°F | 3.10 in |
| June | 77.4°F | 55.1°F | 4.33 in | 76.5°F | 55.9°F | 4.14 in |
| July | 81.6°F | 59.5°F | 3.71 in | 81.7°F | 60.7°F | 3.61 in |
| August | 80.2°F | 57.1°F | 2.74 in | 80.1°F | 58.1°F | 2.74 in |
| September | 71.6°F | 47.3°F | 2.50 in | 71.8°F | 48.9°F | 2.70 in |
| October | 55.5°F | 34.0°F | 2.24 in | 56.5°F | 35.2°F | 2.21 in |
| November | 38.3°F | 19.9°F | 0.89 in | 40.0°F | 21.3°F | 0.78 in |
| December | 23.9°F | 6.6°F | 0.83 in | 26.6°F | 9.8°F | 0.70 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 →