Climate twins of DuBois, PA

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

Top match: Port Dickinson, NY

Month DuBois Port Dickinson
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 31.5°F 17.4°F 2.93 in 29.5°F 15.5°F 2.62 in
February 34.7°F 18.8°F 2.38 in 32.2°F 16.9°F 2.41 in
March 44.2°F 26.1°F 3.26 in 40.7°F 24.0°F 3.05 in
April 57.8°F 36.5°F 3.72 in 54.2°F 35.0°F 3.63 in
May 68.2°F 46.6°F 3.69 in 66.2°F 46.1°F 3.78 in
June 75.4°F 54.8°F 4.66 in 74.0°F 54.9°F 4.69 in
July 79.3°F 58.8°F 4.36 in 78.4°F 59.4°F 3.80 in
August 77.9°F 57.6°F 3.89 in 76.7°F 58.0°F 4.10 in
September 71.0°F 51.0°F 3.96 in 69.5°F 50.6°F 4.01 in
October 59.4°F 40.7°F 3.40 in 57.1°F 40.5°F 3.76 in
November 46.9°F 31.5°F 3.21 in 45.1°F 30.7°F 3.11 in
December 36.3°F 23.3°F 2.96 in 34.3°F 21.9°F 3.08 in

Cities that consider DuBois their climate twin

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