Climate twins of Sargeant, MN

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

Top match: Oxford, WI

Month Sargeant Oxford
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 21.9°F 5.4°F 1.12 in 26.2°F 8.0°F 1.36 in
February 26.4°F 9.1°F 1.10 in 31.0°F 11.1°F 1.28 in
March 39.2°F 22.7°F 2.03 in 42.6°F 22.4°F 1.91 in
April 54.9°F 35.2°F 3.67 in 55.9°F 34.0°F 3.71 in
May 67.5°F 47.5°F 4.99 in 68.5°F 46.2°F 4.44 in
June 77.6°F 58.2°F 5.07 in 77.6°F 56.0°F 4.97 in
July 80.8°F 61.2°F 4.85 in 81.5°F 60.0°F 4.36 in
August 78.7°F 58.7°F 4.07 in 79.6°F 58.0°F 4.14 in
September 72.2°F 50.0°F 3.60 in 72.3°F 49.4°F 3.49 in
October 58.3°F 37.5°F 2.63 in 59.3°F 37.7°F 2.85 in
November 41.5°F 24.7°F 1.84 in 44.3°F 26.3°F 2.10 in
December 27.9°F 13.0°F 1.25 in 31.5°F 15.1°F 1.66 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 →