Climate twins of Tolley, ND

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

Top match: Minnewaukan, ND

Month Tolley Minnewaukan
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 18.8°F 0.4°F 1.00 in 16.1°F -1.5°F 0.44 in
February 22.8°F 3.5°F 0.73 in 20.8°F 1.8°F 0.33 in
March 35.6°F 14.6°F 0.89 in 32.7°F 14.0°F 0.74 in
April 52.1°F 27.7°F 0.96 in 50.4°F 28.0°F 1.32 in
May 65.3°F 40.8°F 2.50 in 64.8°F 41.4°F 3.06 in
June 74.0°F 51.3°F 3.38 in 73.9°F 53.5°F 3.62 in
July 79.9°F 55.5°F 2.99 in 79.3°F 57.7°F 3.03 in
August 80.0°F 52.7°F 2.19 in 79.1°F 54.7°F 2.03 in
September 69.0°F 43.2°F 1.92 in 69.8°F 45.2°F 2.02 in
October 52.4°F 30.5°F 1.25 in 53.7°F 31.9°F 1.40 in
November 35.3°F 16.9°F 0.79 in 35.4°F 18.3°F 1.00 in
December 22.6°F 5.6°F 0.89 in 21.8°F 5.3°F 0.67 in

Cities that consider Tolley their climate twin

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