Climate twins of Stanley, ND

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

Top match: Willow City, ND

Month	Stanley			Willow City
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	17.3°F	-0.6°F	0.54 in	15.1°F	-5.6°F	0.46 in
February	21.5°F	2.5°F	0.55 in	20.0°F	-2.1°F	0.50 in
March	34.2°F	14.0°F	0.79 in	33.1°F	11.2°F	0.77 in
April	51.4°F	26.4°F	1.33 in	51.8°F	25.5°F	1.11 in
May	64.4°F	38.1°F	2.49 in	65.7°F	37.4°F	2.61 in
June	73.1°F	49.0°F	3.86 in	74.5°F	48.9°F	3.82 in
July	79.7°F	53.9°F	3.09 in	80.0°F	53.3°F	2.81 in
August	80.3°F	51.7°F	2.14 in	80.1°F	50.2°F	2.43 in
September	69.6°F	42.1°F	1.82 in	70.1°F	40.3°F	1.69 in
October	52.8°F	29.4°F	1.31 in	53.6°F	28.1°F	1.32 in
November	34.8°F	16.3°F	0.73 in	34.9°F	14.3°F	0.79 in
December	22.2°F	5.2°F	0.63 in	20.9°F	1.5°F	0.64 in

Cities that consider Stanley their climate twin

These US cities have Stanley in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Stanley would feel familiar.

Overly, ND (ranks Stanley #1)
Willow City, ND (ranks Stanley #1)
Rolla, ND (ranks Stanley #1)
St. John, ND (ranks Stanley #1)

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 →