Climate twins of Denton, NC

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

Top match: Blackstone, VA

Month Denton Blackstone
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 50.0°F 29.4°F 3.95 in 48.2°F 26.5°F 3.74 in
February 54.2°F 32.1°F 3.22 in 51.9°F 28.2°F 2.86 in
March 62.0°F 38.6°F 4.09 in 59.2°F 35.0°F 4.12 in
April 71.5°F 46.7°F 3.94 in 69.8°F 44.1°F 3.69 in
May 78.0°F 55.2°F 3.76 in 76.7°F 54.4°F 4.35 in
June 84.8°F 63.2°F 4.08 in 84.1°F 63.1°F 4.28 in
July 88.3°F 67.0°F 4.18 in 87.7°F 67.8°F 4.43 in
August 86.5°F 65.9°F 3.87 in 85.9°F 66.1°F 4.20 in
September 80.6°F 59.6°F 4.84 in 80.4°F 59.3°F 4.39 in
October 71.2°F 47.8°F 3.50 in 70.4°F 46.5°F 3.90 in
November 61.0°F 37.7°F 3.55 in 60.4°F 35.8°F 3.13 in
December 52.8°F 32.4°F 3.64 in 51.6°F 29.7°F 3.75 in

Cities that consider Denton their climate twin

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