Climate twins of Blaine, KY

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

Top match: Sand Fork, WV

Month Blaine Sand Fork
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.8°F 22.5°F 3.29 in 42.0°F 22.4°F 3.50 in
February 47.8°F 24.8°F 2.93 in 45.8°F 24.2°F 3.28 in
March 57.6°F 29.9°F 4.04 in 54.9°F 30.3°F 4.34 in
April 69.6°F 38.8°F 4.59 in 67.3°F 39.4°F 3.87 in
May 75.9°F 49.2°F 4.62 in 75.0°F 49.7°F 5.01 in
June 82.4°F 58.4°F 4.69 in 81.9°F 59.1°F 4.67 in
July 85.4°F 62.5°F 4.73 in 85.2°F 63.4°F 4.93 in
August 84.3°F 60.8°F 3.70 in 84.6°F 62.2°F 3.95 in
September 79.1°F 53.3°F 4.04 in 79.2°F 54.7°F 3.64 in
October 68.5°F 41.0°F 3.08 in 68.5°F 42.6°F 3.11 in
November 57.2°F 30.2°F 3.09 in 56.4°F 32.0°F 3.14 in
December 47.2°F 26.0°F 3.34 in 45.9°F 26.8°F 3.67 in

Cities that consider Blaine their climate twin

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