Climate twins of Saco, MT

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Saco'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.

Rank 1 closest
Bucyrus, ND
similarity distance: 0.856 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Springbrook, ND
similarity distance: 0.867 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Epping, ND
similarity distance: 0.867 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Saco vs its climate twin

Top match: Bucyrus, ND

Month Saco Bucyrus
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 25.6°F 1.5°F 0.26 in 27.4°F 5.4°F 0.19 in
February 30.1°F 5.5°F 0.33 in 30.8°F 8.3°F 0.29 in
March 42.8°F 17.4°F 0.53 in 42.3°F 18.0°F 0.53 in
April 57.3°F 29.1°F 1.05 in 54.8°F 27.5°F 1.04 in
May 67.5°F 39.9°F 1.77 in 65.8°F 38.4°F 2.32 in
June 74.3°F 50.4°F 3.01 in 75.7°F 48.5°F 2.76 in
July 82.8°F 55.2°F 1.69 in 84.1°F 54.3°F 2.39 in
August 82.1°F 53.1°F 1.35 in 83.7°F 51.8°F 1.55 in
September 71.5°F 42.3°F 1.35 in 73.6°F 42.2°F 1.23 in
October 57.2°F 29.7°F 1.05 in 57.0°F 29.3°F 1.28 in
November 40.8°F 16.6°F 0.54 in 41.8°F 17.1°F 0.54 in
December 29.0°F 5.9°F 0.43 in 30.8°F 8.0°F 0.14 in

Cities that consider Saco their climate twin

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