Climate twins of Abingdon, VA

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

Top match: Sand Fork, WV

Month Abingdon Sand Fork
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 44.9°F 24.1°F 3.80 in 42.0°F 22.4°F 3.50 in
February 48.4°F 26.6°F 3.85 in 45.8°F 24.2°F 3.28 in
March 57.0°F 32.9°F 4.46 in 54.9°F 30.3°F 4.34 in
April 67.7°F 41.1°F 4.42 in 67.3°F 39.4°F 3.87 in
May 75.2°F 50.4°F 4.39 in 75.0°F 49.7°F 5.01 in
June 81.8°F 58.8°F 4.26 in 81.9°F 59.1°F 4.67 in
July 84.7°F 62.3°F 4.69 in 85.2°F 63.4°F 4.93 in
August 83.9°F 61.3°F 3.84 in 84.6°F 62.2°F 3.95 in
September 79.1°F 54.9°F 3.32 in 79.2°F 54.7°F 3.64 in
October 68.8°F 42.7°F 2.78 in 68.5°F 42.6°F 3.11 in
November 57.4°F 32.8°F 3.25 in 56.4°F 32.0°F 3.14 in
December 47.8°F 27.3°F 4.21 in 45.9°F 26.8°F 3.67 in

Cities that consider Abingdon their climate twin

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