Climate twins of St. Vincent, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches St. Vincent'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. Vincent vs its climate twin
Top match: Tower City, ND
| Month | St. Vincent | Tower City | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 12.7°F | -4.8°F | 0.53 in | 18.3°F | -2.3°F | 0.52 in |
| February | 17.9°F | -1.6°F | 0.39 in | 23.2°F | 1.3°F | 0.50 in |
| March | 31.4°F | 12.9°F | 0.77 in | 36.0°F | 14.2°F | 0.81 in |
| April | 50.0°F | 28.9°F | 1.07 in | 53.2°F | 27.7°F | 1.22 in |
| May | 64.9°F | 41.7°F | 3.23 in | 67.1°F | 41.2°F | 3.21 in |
| June | 74.7°F | 53.1°F | 4.06 in | 76.4°F | 53.2°F | 3.59 in |
| July | 78.9°F | 57.0°F | 3.32 in | 81.2°F | 57.0°F | 3.02 in |
| August | 78.1°F | 53.9°F | 2.56 in | 80.1°F | 54.1°F | 2.59 in |
| September | 68.6°F | 44.9°F | 2.78 in | 71.4°F | 44.6°F | 2.73 in |
| October | 52.0°F | 32.3°F | 1.83 in | 55.9°F | 31.9°F | 1.91 in |
| November | 33.6°F | 18.0°F | 0.91 in | 38.3°F | 18.3°F | 0.69 in |
| December | 19.5°F | 3.6°F | 0.64 in | 24.2°F | 5.6°F | 0.67 in |
Cities that consider St. Vincent their climate twin
These US cities have St. Vincent in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, St. Vincent would feel familiar.
- Oriska, ND (ranks St. Vincent #3)
- Sanborn, ND (ranks St. Vincent #3)
- Valley City, ND (ranks St. Vincent #3)
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 →