Climate twins of Timber Lake, SD
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Timber Lake'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: Timber Lake vs its climate twin
Top match: Wessington, SD
| Month | Timber Lake | Wessington | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 26.7°F | 7.1°F | 0.49 in | 26.2°F | 7.0°F | 0.42 in |
| February | 30.7°F | 10.8°F | 0.67 in | 30.6°F | 9.9°F | 0.77 in |
| March | 43.9°F | 21.2°F | 1.00 in | 42.6°F | 20.7°F | 0.91 in |
| April | 57.7°F | 31.9°F | 1.83 in | 56.3°F | 31.9°F | 2.21 in |
| May | 69.1°F | 43.4°F | 2.90 in | 68.2°F | 44.7°F | 3.51 in |
| June | 78.7°F | 53.9°F | 3.56 in | 78.2°F | 55.6°F | 3.86 in |
| July | 85.9°F | 59.4°F | 2.85 in | 84.8°F | 60.7°F | 3.01 in |
| August | 85.1°F | 57.5°F | 1.78 in | 82.6°F | 58.1°F | 2.46 in |
| September | 76.1°F | 48.1°F | 1.53 in | 74.4°F | 49.1°F | 1.95 in |
| October | 58.7°F | 34.6°F | 1.66 in | 58.9°F | 35.4°F | 2.02 in |
| November | 42.6°F | 21.7°F | 0.57 in | 43.5°F | 22.3°F | 0.61 in |
| December | 30.2°F | 11.3°F | 0.57 in | 30.4°F | 12.1°F | 0.59 in |
Cities that consider Timber Lake their climate twin
These US cities have Timber Lake in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Timber Lake would feel familiar.
- Miller, SD (ranks Timber Lake #1)
- St. Lawrence, SD (ranks Timber Lake #1)
- Wessington, SD (ranks Timber Lake #1)
- Cresbard, SD (ranks Timber Lake #1)
- Batesland, SD (ranks Timber Lake #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 →