Climate twins of Reynolds, ND

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

Top match: Columbia, SD

Month Reynolds Columbia
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 17.9°F 1.0°F 0.55 in 21.5°F 0.4°F 0.47 in
February 22.5°F 4.2°F 0.59 in 26.4°F 4.5°F 0.44 in
March 35.9°F 19.5°F 1.20 in 39.3°F 17.7°F 0.87 in
April 53.0°F 33.7°F 1.39 in 55.2°F 31.1°F 1.77 in
May 67.7°F 45.8°F 2.77 in 68.2°F 44.8°F 3.41 in
June 77.0°F 57.3°F 3.65 in 77.8°F 55.7°F 3.59 in
July 81.3°F 61.1°F 3.43 in 83.1°F 59.9°F 3.62 in
August 80.2°F 58.4°F 2.59 in 81.4°F 56.9°F 2.62 in
September 71.3°F 49.7°F 2.16 in 72.9°F 46.9°F 2.38 in
October 55.2°F 36.8°F 2.21 in 57.5°F 33.0°F 2.11 in
November 38.2°F 22.3°F 0.86 in 40.7°F 19.3°F 0.68 in
December 23.7°F 9.4°F 0.91 in 26.9°F 7.3°F 0.50 in

Cities that consider Reynolds their climate twin

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