Climate twins of Rutland, ND
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Rutland'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: Rutland vs its climate twin
Top match: Nimrod, MN
| Month | Rutland | Nimrod | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 18.3°F | -0.6°F | 0.67 in | 18.1°F | -2.8°F | 0.43 in |
| February | 23.2°F | 3.4°F | 0.52 in | 23.8°F | 0.8°F | 0.40 in |
| March | 36.5°F | 16.5°F | 0.96 in | 36.9°F | 15.6°F | 1.00 in |
| April | 52.9°F | 30.7°F | 1.85 in | 52.6°F | 29.3°F | 1.72 in |
| May | 66.4°F | 43.9°F | 2.83 in | 66.5°F | 41.9°F | 3.09 in |
| June | 75.9°F | 55.0°F | 4.31 in | 75.7°F | 52.8°F | 4.08 in |
| July | 81.0°F | 59.3°F | 3.60 in | 80.2°F | 57.1°F | 3.93 in |
| August | 79.7°F | 56.5°F | 2.21 in | 78.6°F | 54.8°F | 2.78 in |
| September | 71.4°F | 46.8°F | 2.53 in | 69.2°F | 46.3°F | 2.70 in |
| October | 55.7°F | 33.5°F | 2.23 in | 53.6°F | 33.5°F | 2.40 in |
| November | 38.4°F | 19.6°F | 0.82 in | 36.4°F | 19.3°F | 0.81 in |
| December | 24.6°F | 7.1°F | 0.64 in | 23.1°F | 5.4°F | 0.52 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 →