Climate twins of Wildrose, ND

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

Top match: Sawyer, ND

Month Wildrose Sawyer
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 18.0°F -1.7°F 0.59 in 20.2°F -3.4°F 0.67 in
February 22.3°F 2.0°F 0.39 in 24.4°F 0.8°F 0.50 in
March 34.8°F 14.6°F 0.66 in 37.0°F 13.4°F 0.75 in
April 51.8°F 27.4°F 1.02 in 53.5°F 25.5°F 1.07 in
May 64.6°F 39.5°F 2.23 in 66.9°F 38.3°F 2.70 in
June 73.2°F 49.5°F 3.38 in 74.5°F 49.1°F 3.63 in
July 79.3°F 54.2°F 3.08 in 80.3°F 53.7°F 2.73 in
August 80.3°F 52.0°F 1.55 in 79.9°F 50.9°F 2.20 in
September 70.1°F 41.8°F 1.41 in 71.0°F 41.5°F 1.56 in
October 52.9°F 28.8°F 1.16 in 55.7°F 28.4°F 1.53 in
November 35.2°F 15.2°F 0.56 in 38.3°F 14.9°F 1.27 in
December 22.5°F 3.8°F 0.62 in 25.2°F 3.3°F 0.57 in

Cities that consider Wildrose their climate twin

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

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 →