Climate twins of Reile's Acres, ND

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

Top match: Naples, SD

Month Reile's Acres Naples
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 18.2°F 0.2°F 0.71 in 21.1°F 3.5°F 0.62 in
February 22.7°F 4.1°F 0.69 in 25.9°F 7.1°F 0.62 in
March 36.3°F 18.1°F 1.25 in 38.7°F 18.9°F 1.03 in
April 54.1°F 31.9°F 1.54 in 53.3°F 31.5°F 2.14 in
May 68.7°F 44.4°F 3.09 in 66.4°F 44.6°F 3.10 in
June 78.1°F 55.6°F 4.29 in 76.5°F 55.9°F 4.14 in
July 82.1°F 59.4°F 3.07 in 81.7°F 60.7°F 3.61 in
August 80.7°F 56.8°F 2.60 in 80.1°F 58.1°F 2.74 in
September 72.0°F 48.1°F 2.68 in 71.8°F 48.9°F 2.70 in
October 55.8°F 35.2°F 2.17 in 56.5°F 35.2°F 2.21 in
November 38.1°F 20.9°F 0.97 in 40.0°F 21.3°F 0.78 in
December 24.0°F 7.5°F 0.89 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 →