Climate twins of Souris, ND
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Souris'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: Souris vs its climate twin
Top match: Lakota, ND
| Month | Souris | Lakota | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 15.2°F | -4.0°F | 0.53 in | 13.7°F | -4.2°F | 0.44 in |
| February | 19.8°F | -0.4°F | 0.53 in | 18.6°F | -0.7°F | 0.45 in |
| March | 32.9°F | 13.7°F | 0.76 in | 31.3°F | 13.2°F | 0.50 in |
| April | 51.3°F | 28.2°F | 1.07 in | 49.7°F | 28.4°F | 0.94 in |
| May | 65.2°F | 41.0°F | 2.58 in | 64.9°F | 41.9°F | 2.79 in |
| June | 74.0°F | 51.5°F | 3.87 in | 74.3°F | 53.1°F | 3.84 in |
| July | 79.3°F | 56.1°F | 2.75 in | 78.9°F | 57.5°F | 3.61 in |
| August | 79.1°F | 53.8°F | 2.61 in | 78.3°F | 54.9°F | 2.51 in |
| September | 69.3°F | 44.1°F | 1.52 in | 68.9°F | 45.2°F | 2.12 in |
| October | 52.6°F | 30.0°F | 1.50 in | 52.3°F | 31.7°F | 1.66 in |
| November | 34.2°F | 15.6°F | 0.78 in | 34.0°F | 17.1°F | 0.73 in |
| December | 20.1°F | 2.6°F | 0.70 in | 19.9°F | 3.6°F | 0.64 in |
Cities that consider Souris their climate twin
These US cities have Souris in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Souris would feel familiar.
- Michigan City, ND (ranks Souris #1)
- McVille, ND (ranks Souris #1)
- Lakota, ND (ranks Souris #1)
- Edmore, ND (ranks Souris #1)
- Hampden, ND (ranks Souris #1)
- Nekoma, ND (ranks Souris #1)
- Wales, ND (ranks Souris #2)
- Loma, ND (ranks Souris #2)
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 →