Climate twins of Barbourville, KY

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

Top match: Westmoreland, TN

Month Barbourville Westmoreland
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 45.1°F 24.6°F 4.37 in 45.2°F 25.3°F 4.41 in
February 50.1°F 27.6°F 4.35 in 50.2°F 27.7°F 4.71 in
March 58.8°F 32.8°F 4.91 in 59.1°F 34.4°F 4.91 in
April 69.3°F 41.3°F 5.08 in 68.8°F 42.9°F 5.16 in
May 77.4°F 51.4°F 4.54 in 77.0°F 53.3°F 5.72 in
June 84.3°F 60.3°F 5.11 in 84.4°F 62.4°F 4.60 in
July 87.0°F 64.8°F 5.77 in 87.7°F 66.6°F 5.17 in
August 86.2°F 63.6°F 3.98 in 87.2°F 64.7°F 3.82 in
September 81.1°F 56.3°F 3.45 in 81.7°F 57.3°F 3.74 in
October 70.6°F 43.5°F 3.13 in 70.9°F 43.9°F 3.81 in
November 58.3°F 32.8°F 3.82 in 58.5°F 33.8°F 3.90 in
December 48.9°F 27.9°F 5.26 in 48.8°F 28.4°F 5.01 in

Cities that consider Barbourville their climate twin

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