Climate twins of St. Anthony, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches St. Anthony'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: St. Anthony vs its climate twin
Top match: Okabena, MN
| Month | St. Anthony | Okabena | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 21.2°F | 5.5°F | 0.68 in | 22.0°F | 4.7°F | 0.62 in |
| February | 26.5°F | 9.4°F | 0.75 in | 26.7°F | 8.4°F | 0.67 in |
| March | 39.4°F | 22.3°F | 1.61 in | 39.4°F | 20.7°F | 1.53 in |
| April | 54.7°F | 35.6°F | 3.02 in | 54.9°F | 32.5°F | 3.03 in |
| May | 67.1°F | 48.2°F | 4.23 in | 67.9°F | 45.8°F | 4.48 in |
| June | 77.2°F | 58.5°F | 4.60 in | 78.2°F | 56.9°F | 4.47 in |
| July | 81.4°F | 62.8°F | 4.55 in | 81.4°F | 60.3°F | 4.16 in |
| August | 79.1°F | 60.5°F | 4.52 in | 78.9°F | 57.5°F | 4.10 in |
| September | 71.3°F | 52.2°F | 3.29 in | 72.7°F | 48.9°F | 3.11 in |
| October | 57.3°F | 38.9°F | 2.89 in | 58.7°F | 35.9°F | 2.28 in |
| November | 40.1°F | 25.2°F | 1.53 in | 41.6°F | 22.5°F | 1.24 in |
| December | 26.4°F | 12.5°F | 1.06 in | 27.5°F | 11.0°F | 0.79 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 →