Climate twins of Washburn, ND

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

Top match: Medora, ND

Month	Washburn			Medora
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	22.0°F	2.1°F	0.39 in	27.6°F	3.4°F	0.32 in
February	27.1°F	5.0°F	0.47 in	31.9°F	7.7°F	0.44 in
March	39.5°F	17.6°F	0.56 in	43.7°F	18.4°F	0.63 in
April	55.4°F	29.8°F	1.49 in	55.5°F	29.5°F	1.59 in
May	66.9°F	41.9°F	2.82 in	66.7°F	40.5°F	2.60 in
June	76.4°F	52.0°F	3.24 in	76.7°F	50.1°F	2.92 in
July	82.9°F	57.1°F	2.49 in	85.6°F	55.9°F	2.10 in
August	82.7°F	54.8°F	2.20 in	85.2°F	53.2°F	1.41 in
September	73.4°F	45.5°F	1.46 in	74.4°F	42.8°F	1.42 in
October	57.0°F	32.3°F	1.41 in	57.5°F	30.1°F	1.18 in
November	40.1°F	19.4°F	0.69 in	42.4°F	18.1°F	0.62 in
December	26.8°F	8.8°F	0.45 in	30.9°F	7.3°F	0.56 in

Cities that consider Washburn their climate twin

These US cities have Washburn in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Washburn would feel familiar.

Medora, ND (ranks Washburn #3)
Ray, ND (ranks Washburn #2)
Belfield, ND (ranks Washburn #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 →