Climate twins of Spring Grove, MN

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

Top match: Pemberton, MN

Month Spring Grove Pemberton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 23.8°F 4.0°F 1.00 in 21.7°F 4.8°F 1.27 in
February 27.9°F 7.4°F 1.01 in 26.4°F 8.7°F 1.20 in
March 40.4°F 20.0°F 1.90 in 39.1°F 22.3°F 2.25 in
April 55.4°F 31.7°F 3.90 in 55.2°F 34.9°F 3.30 in
May 66.9°F 44.4°F 4.78 in 68.1°F 47.8°F 4.47 in
June 76.2°F 55.3°F 6.14 in 78.3°F 58.6°F 5.38 in
July 79.8°F 58.0°F 4.47 in 81.3°F 61.4°F 4.93 in
August 78.1°F 54.9°F 4.59 in 79.1°F 59.0°F 4.82 in
September 71.7°F 46.6°F 4.37 in 72.9°F 50.4°F 4.12 in
October 58.3°F 35.1°F 3.13 in 58.7°F 36.9°F 2.77 in
November 43.0°F 23.2°F 1.89 in 41.4°F 24.4°F 1.89 in
December 30.0°F 12.4°F 1.40 in 27.5°F 12.1°F 1.50 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 →