Climate twins of Stickney, SD
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Stickney'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: Stickney vs its climate twin
Top match: Murdo, SD
| Month | Stickney | Murdo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 27.1°F | 8.2°F | 0.47 in | 30.7°F | 11.6°F | 0.57 in |
| February | 32.0°F | 11.7°F | 0.68 in | 34.4°F | 14.3°F | 0.71 in |
| March | 44.0°F | 21.7°F | 1.01 in | 45.4°F | 24.0°F | 1.17 in |
| April | 57.0°F | 32.9°F | 3.03 in | 56.6°F | 34.2°F | 2.37 in |
| May | 68.5°F | 46.0°F | 3.72 in | 67.5°F | 45.8°F | 3.44 in |
| June | 78.8°F | 57.1°F | 3.63 in | 78.5°F | 56.5°F | 3.63 in |
| July | 85.5°F | 62.3°F | 2.99 in | 86.7°F | 62.6°F | 2.84 in |
| August | 83.1°F | 59.5°F | 2.58 in | 85.4°F | 60.8°F | 2.37 in |
| September | 75.4°F | 50.2°F | 2.58 in | 76.5°F | 51.2°F | 1.48 in |
| October | 59.8°F | 36.1°F | 1.87 in | 60.3°F | 37.3°F | 1.80 in |
| November | 44.1°F | 22.7°F | 0.70 in | 45.3°F | 24.7°F | 0.68 in |
| December | 30.7°F | 12.6°F | 0.62 in | 33.4°F | 14.9°F | 0.59 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 →