Climate twins of East Palestine, OH

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

Top match: Monroeville, OH

Month East Palestine Monroeville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 35.9°F 19.2°F 3.14 in 33.4°F 19.0°F 2.68 in
February 39.0°F 19.1°F 2.40 in 36.2°F 20.4°F 2.31 in
March 48.3°F 26.8°F 3.07 in 45.5°F 27.9°F 2.90 in
April 61.6°F 36.6°F 3.65 in 58.7°F 38.1°F 3.95 in
May 71.5°F 47.8°F 3.84 in 70.2°F 49.9°F 3.91 in
June 78.9°F 56.4°F 4.26 in 79.3°F 59.8°F 4.31 in
July 83.1°F 61.1°F 3.82 in 83.0°F 63.6°F 4.19 in
August 82.2°F 59.5°F 3.50 in 81.3°F 61.6°F 3.54 in
September 75.6°F 52.9°F 3.62 in 75.5°F 54.5°F 3.55 in
October 63.8°F 41.8°F 3.06 in 63.3°F 43.3°F 3.34 in
November 51.0°F 31.5°F 2.95 in 49.7°F 33.7°F 2.83 in
December 40.3°F 24.5°F 3.01 in 38.5°F 25.1°F 2.57 in

Cities that consider East Palestine their climate twin

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