Climate twins of Warroad, MN

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

Top match: Iron Junction, MN

Month Warroad Iron Junction
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 13.2°F -8.0°F 0.77 in 16.5°F -1.5°F 0.77 in
February 18.9°F -4.8°F 0.56 in 22.1°F 1.7°F 0.70 in
March 32.5°F 9.6°F 0.81 in 35.3°F 14.3°F 1.16 in
April 47.6°F 24.7°F 1.59 in 49.0°F 27.6°F 1.95 in
May 62.2°F 39.5°F 3.49 in 63.1°F 40.7°F 3.00 in
June 72.0°F 50.7°F 4.77 in 72.3°F 51.1°F 4.25 in
July 76.9°F 54.6°F 3.69 in 77.2°F 55.6°F 3.92 in
August 75.4°F 52.1°F 4.30 in 75.5°F 53.8°F 3.49 in
September 66.3°F 43.1°F 3.00 in 66.0°F 45.3°F 3.44 in
October 50.8°F 30.9°F 2.52 in 50.9°F 33.4°F 2.55 in
November 33.5°F 16.7°F 1.26 in 34.5°F 19.9°F 1.35 in
December 19.2°F 1.4°F 0.93 in 21.8°F 6.4°F 1.00 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 →