Climate twins of Burnside, KY

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

Top match: White House, TN

Month Burnside White House
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 45.4°F 29.0°F 4.33 in 45.9°F 27.4°F 4.25 in
February 49.7°F 31.6°F 3.93 in 50.4°F 29.4°F 4.53 in
March 58.5°F 38.6°F 5.11 in 59.4°F 37.0°F 4.93 in
April 69.8°F 48.1°F 4.93 in 69.7°F 46.5°F 5.34 in
May 76.7°F 56.6°F 5.22 in 77.7°F 56.1°F 5.73 in
June 83.7°F 64.8°F 5.00 in 85.0°F 63.8°F 4.27 in
July 86.5°F 69.0°F 5.28 in 88.6°F 68.3°F 4.77 in
August 86.0°F 67.1°F 3.94 in 88.2°F 65.7°F 3.97 in
September 80.7°F 60.0°F 3.71 in 82.4°F 58.5°F 3.89 in
October 70.9°F 47.9°F 3.19 in 71.6°F 47.6°F 3.78 in
November 58.5°F 38.3°F 3.77 in 59.3°F 36.9°F 4.11 in
December 48.8°F 33.0°F 4.87 in 49.2°F 31.1°F 4.78 in

Cities that consider Burnside their climate twin

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