Climate twins of Richfield, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Richfield'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: Richfield vs its climate twin
Top match: Battle Creek, IA
| Month | Richfield | Battle Creek | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 23.6°F | 8.8°F | 0.89 in | 27.4°F | 7.8°F | 0.74 in |
| February | 28.5°F | 12.7°F | 0.87 in | 32.0°F | 11.7°F | 0.87 in |
| March | 41.7°F | 24.9°F | 1.68 in | 45.2°F | 23.4°F | 1.78 in |
| April | 56.6°F | 37.5°F | 2.91 in | 59.5°F | 34.7°F | 3.42 in |
| May | 69.2°F | 49.9°F | 3.91 in | 70.9°F | 48.1°F | 4.40 in |
| June | 79.0°F | 60.4°F | 4.58 in | 80.7°F | 58.7°F | 4.80 in |
| July | 83.4°F | 65.3°F | 4.06 in | 83.9°F | 62.3°F | 3.71 in |
| August | 80.7°F | 62.8°F | 4.34 in | 81.9°F | 59.0°F | 4.23 in |
| September | 72.9°F | 54.2°F | 3.02 in | 75.9°F | 49.5°F | 3.16 in |
| October | 58.1°F | 40.9°F | 2.58 in | 62.6°F | 35.8°F | 2.37 in |
| November | 41.9°F | 27.7°F | 1.61 in | 45.9°F | 23.6°F | 1.48 in |
| December | 28.8°F | 15.2°F | 1.17 in | 32.5°F | 13.2°F | 1.12 in |
Cities that consider Richfield their climate twin
These US cities have Richfield in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Richfield would feel familiar.
- Havelock, IA (ranks Richfield #1)
- Laurens, IA (ranks Richfield #1)
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 →