Climate twins of Cherryville, NC

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

Top match: Yanceyville, NC

Month Cherryville Yanceyville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 51.3°F 30.1°F 3.93 in 48.6°F 28.9°F 3.67 in
February 56.0°F 32.9°F 3.52 in 52.4°F 31.2°F 3.02 in
March 63.7°F 39.1°F 4.51 in 60.4°F 37.6°F 4.38 in
April 72.9°F 47.1°F 4.25 in 70.5°F 46.8°F 4.31 in
May 79.3°F 55.6°F 4.22 in 78.1°F 55.6°F 4.02 in
June 85.5°F 63.7°F 4.28 in 86.3°F 63.8°F 4.22 in
July 88.7°F 67.4°F 4.09 in 89.8°F 68.1°F 4.21 in
August 86.9°F 66.5°F 4.86 in 87.0°F 66.7°F 4.25 in
September 81.6°F 60.3°F 4.17 in 81.3°F 60.1°F 5.08 in
October 72.5°F 48.2°F 3.81 in 70.7°F 48.3°F 3.57 in
November 61.8°F 38.0°F 3.79 in 60.9°F 37.7°F 3.57 in
December 53.6°F 32.7°F 4.07 in 51.4°F 31.9°F 3.81 in

Cities that consider Cherryville their climate twin

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