Climate twins of Watford City, ND
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Watford City'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: Watford City vs its climate twin
Top match: Underwood, ND
| Month | Watford City | Underwood | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 21.6°F | 5.1°F | 0.50 in | 18.9°F | 0.7°F | 0.54 in |
| February | 26.2°F | 8.1°F | 0.41 in | 23.3°F | 3.6°F | 0.50 in |
| March | 38.8°F | 18.8°F | 0.63 in | 36.4°F | 15.8°F | 0.78 in |
| April | 53.1°F | 30.5°F | 0.96 in | 52.5°F | 28.8°F | 1.39 in |
| May | 64.8°F | 42.1°F | 2.38 in | 65.7°F | 41.8°F | 2.59 in |
| June | 74.1°F | 52.9°F | 3.44 in | 75.1°F | 52.3°F | 3.78 in |
| July | 82.2°F | 57.9°F | 2.63 in | 81.8°F | 57.4°F | 2.44 in |
| August | 81.6°F | 55.4°F | 1.35 in | 81.8°F | 54.9°F | 1.68 in |
| September | 71.1°F | 44.9°F | 1.16 in | 71.0°F | 45.3°F | 1.56 in |
| October | 54.7°F | 32.6°F | 1.04 in | 54.0°F | 31.7°F | 1.41 in |
| November | 38.0°F | 20.0°F | 0.60 in | 36.7°F | 18.1°F | 0.73 in |
| December | 26.2°F | 9.9°F | 0.55 in | 23.8°F | 7.0°F | 0.63 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 →