Climate twins of Taopi, MN

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Taopi'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.

Rank 1 closest
Yuba, WI
similarity distance: 0.913 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Norwalk, WI
similarity distance: 0.954 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Granton, WI
similarity distance: 0.973 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Taopi vs its climate twin

Top match: Yuba, WI

Month Taopi Yuba
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 20.9°F 4.6°F 1.02 in 24.5°F 5.6°F 1.16 in
February 25.3°F 8.2°F 0.87 in 29.0°F 8.0°F 1.05 in
March 37.9°F 20.1°F 1.85 in 40.6°F 20.1°F 1.94 in
April 53.5°F 31.9°F 3.90 in 54.8°F 31.6°F 3.74 in
May 66.1°F 44.3°F 5.06 in 66.3°F 43.5°F 4.35 in
June 76.2°F 55.7°F 5.70 in 76.3°F 53.9°F 5.02 in
July 79.3°F 58.6°F 4.66 in 80.4°F 57.4°F 4.41 in
August 77.4°F 56.0°F 4.22 in 78.1°F 55.1°F 4.40 in
September 71.1°F 47.8°F 4.07 in 71.0°F 46.2°F 3.83 in
October 57.2°F 35.3°F 2.95 in 58.0°F 35.5°F 2.76 in
November 40.6°F 23.4°F 1.82 in 42.6°F 24.7°F 1.99 in
December 27.1°F 12.2°F 1.25 in 30.0°F 13.3°F 1.57 in

Cities that consider Taopi their climate twin

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

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 →