Climate twins of Zumbro Falls, MN

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

Top match: Gilmore City, IA

Month Zumbro Falls Gilmore City
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 24.4°F 4.2°F 1.00 in 24.4°F 8.5°F 0.91 in
February 29.7°F 7.6°F 1.11 in 29.3°F 12.4°F 1.04 in
March 41.6°F 21.2°F 1.99 in 42.7°F 24.6°F 2.02 in
April 56.7°F 33.4°F 3.39 in 57.2°F 35.6°F 3.30 in
May 69.0°F 45.3°F 4.38 in 68.3°F 48.6°F 4.80 in
June 79.0°F 56.5°F 5.30 in 77.8°F 59.3°F 5.48 in
July 83.1°F 60.3°F 4.19 in 81.1°F 63.1°F 4.15 in
August 81.0°F 58.0°F 4.68 in 78.8°F 60.2°F 4.55 in
September 73.6°F 49.1°F 3.75 in 72.5°F 51.2°F 3.33 in
October 59.7°F 36.1°F 2.46 in 60.1°F 39.1°F 2.45 in
November 43.4°F 24.5°F 1.97 in 43.4°F 26.1°F 1.61 in
December 30.0°F 12.8°F 1.25 in 29.8°F 14.8°F 1.32 in

Cities that consider Zumbro Falls their climate twin

These US cities have Zumbro Falls in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Zumbro Falls 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 →