Climate twins of White Earth, ND

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches White Earth'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.

Rank 1 closest
Mercer, ND
similarity distance: 0.954 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Poplar, MT
similarity distance: 1.022 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Mott, ND
similarity distance: 1.039 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: White Earth vs its climate twin

Top match: Mercer, ND

Month White Earth Mercer
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 20.2°F 2.3°F 0.51 in 20.1°F 1.0°F 0.55 in
February 25.1°F 6.8°F 0.37 in 24.5°F 4.3°F 0.42 in
March 38.0°F 18.7°F 0.50 in 37.4°F 15.8°F 0.84 in
April 54.4°F 31.2°F 1.00 in 53.8°F 27.6°F 1.32 in
May 66.5°F 42.7°F 2.13 in 67.0°F 40.2°F 2.56 in
June 75.7°F 53.3°F 3.23 in 76.2°F 51.2°F 3.47 in
July 82.6°F 58.1°F 2.78 in 82.7°F 56.4°F 2.58 in
August 82.5°F 55.9°F 1.61 in 82.2°F 53.8°F 2.19 in
September 71.6°F 45.6°F 1.05 in 71.9°F 44.2°F 1.76 in
October 55.0°F 33.4°F 0.99 in 55.4°F 31.6°F 1.29 in
November 37.5°F 20.1°F 0.58 in 38.1°F 18.5°F 0.61 in
December 24.2°F 7.8°F 0.66 in 24.7°F 7.2°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 →