Climate twins of Venturia, ND

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

Top match: Ryder, ND

Month Venturia Ryder
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 20.0°F 1.3°F 0.41 in 18.4°F 0.3°F 0.57 in
February 24.4°F 5.4°F 0.51 in 22.9°F 3.9°F 0.50 in
March 36.7°F 17.0°F 0.90 in 35.2°F 16.1°F 0.79 in
April 52.0°F 29.2°F 1.49 in 51.4°F 29.5°F 1.17 in
May 65.0°F 42.3°F 3.18 in 64.8°F 42.4°F 2.82 in
June 74.6°F 53.3°F 3.61 in 74.0°F 52.9°F 3.65 in
July 81.0°F 58.3°F 3.29 in 80.7°F 57.5°F 2.79 in
August 79.7°F 55.9°F 2.58 in 80.5°F 55.6°F 2.14 in
September 70.6°F 46.0°F 2.00 in 70.1°F 45.9°F 1.68 in
October 54.7°F 32.2°F 1.76 in 53.4°F 32.2°F 1.36 in
November 38.5°F 19.0°F 0.50 in 36.0°F 18.0°F 0.68 in
December 25.3°F 8.2°F 0.51 in 23.5°F 6.4°F 0.57 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 →