Climate twins of Albany, IN

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

Top match: Veedersburg, IN

Month Albany Veedersburg
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.6°F 17.5°F 2.54 in 33.0°F 15.7°F 2.33 in
February 38.4°F 19.9°F 2.20 in 37.8°F 18.7°F 1.92 in
March 49.0°F 28.6°F 3.21 in 49.1°F 28.2°F 2.87 in
April 61.9°F 39.4°F 4.04 in 62.2°F 39.1°F 4.14 in
May 72.8°F 50.6°F 4.39 in 73.1°F 50.8°F 4.23 in
June 81.5°F 60.0°F 4.64 in 81.7°F 60.4°F 4.86 in
July 84.4°F 62.5°F 4.39 in 83.7°F 62.4°F 4.77 in
August 83.1°F 60.2°F 3.84 in 82.6°F 60.3°F 3.51 in
September 77.8°F 52.6°F 3.14 in 78.1°F 53.1°F 2.71 in
October 65.5°F 41.6°F 3.21 in 65.5°F 41.5°F 3.19 in
November 51.3°F 32.2°F 3.24 in 50.3°F 30.8°F 3.12 in
December 39.5°F 23.4°F 2.57 in 38.3°F 21.8°F 2.43 in

Cities that consider Albany their climate twin

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