Climate twins of Belhaven, NC

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

Top match: Lumberton, NC

Month Belhaven Lumberton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 53.9°F 32.6°F 3.85 in 54.4°F 33.2°F 3.70 in
February 57.2°F 34.3°F 3.00 in 57.7°F 35.1°F 3.41 in
March 63.3°F 40.0°F 3.71 in 65.3°F 40.9°F 3.61 in
April 72.8°F 49.3°F 3.30 in 74.3°F 49.1°F 3.43 in
May 79.2°F 58.0°F 4.01 in 81.3°F 58.6°F 4.26 in
June 85.6°F 66.6°F 6.07 in 87.7°F 67.5°F 5.23 in
July 88.6°F 70.7°F 6.09 in 90.8°F 71.3°F 5.60 in
August 87.2°F 68.6°F 6.35 in 88.8°F 69.7°F 6.16 in
September 82.5°F 63.2°F 5.35 in 83.8°F 64.0°F 5.18 in
October 74.6°F 51.6°F 3.58 in 74.9°F 51.8°F 3.39 in
November 64.9°F 41.7°F 3.33 in 65.3°F 41.3°F 3.24 in
December 56.9°F 36.2°F 3.63 in 57.4°F 35.8°F 3.62 in

Cities that consider Belhaven their climate twin

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