Climate twins of Terry, MT

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Terry'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
Malta, MT
similarity distance: 0.828 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Edgemont, SD
similarity distance: 0.933 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Cottonwood, SD
similarity distance: 1.062 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Terry vs its climate twin

Top match: Malta, MT

Month Terry Malta
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 28.4°F 6.1°F 0.29 in 28.6°F 6.6°F 0.36 in
February 33.7°F 10.8°F 0.34 in 32.4°F 10.6°F 0.37 in
March 46.2°F 21.5°F 0.44 in 45.0°F 21.0°F 0.51 in
April 57.9°F 32.2°F 1.43 in 59.0°F 32.8°F 1.27 in
May 68.0°F 42.7°F 2.51 in 68.8°F 42.4°F 1.72 in
June 78.2°F 52.6°F 2.36 in 76.9°F 51.8°F 2.68 in
July 88.1°F 58.5°F 1.90 in 86.3°F 57.4°F 1.58 in
August 87.0°F 56.0°F 1.31 in 85.6°F 55.7°F 1.27 in
September 75.7°F 45.3°F 1.17 in 74.4°F 45.5°F 1.41 in
October 59.1°F 32.7°F 0.92 in 59.4°F 33.2°F 1.03 in
November 43.8°F 20.0°F 0.37 in 43.3°F 20.4°F 0.69 in
December 32.2°F 9.7°F 0.32 in 31.3°F 10.2°F 0.46 in

Cities that consider Terry their climate twin

These US cities have Terry in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Terry 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 →