Climate twins of Elizabethtown, KY
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Elizabethtown'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: Elizabethtown vs its climate twin
Top match: Stanton, KY
| Month | Elizabethtown | Stanton | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 42.0°F | 24.3°F | 3.99 in | 42.4°F | 23.4°F | 3.59 in |
| February | 47.0°F | 27.4°F | 3.93 in | 46.7°F | 26.0°F | 3.74 in |
| March | 56.2°F | 34.5°F | 5.14 in | 55.7°F | 33.1°F | 5.02 in |
| April | 67.2°F | 43.7°F | 5.08 in | 67.2°F | 41.8°F | 4.63 in |
| May | 75.3°F | 53.7°F | 5.79 in | 74.6°F | 52.1°F | 5.76 in |
| June | 83.0°F | 62.2°F | 4.72 in | 81.8°F | 60.5°F | 5.08 in |
| July | 86.0°F | 65.7°F | 5.39 in | 84.4°F | 64.4°F | 5.78 in |
| August | 85.3°F | 64.2°F | 4.09 in | 83.2°F | 62.5°F | 4.15 in |
| September | 79.5°F | 56.8°F | 3.47 in | 79.1°F | 56.0°F | 4.17 in |
| October | 68.6°F | 45.1°F | 4.10 in | 68.5°F | 43.0°F | 3.64 in |
| November | 55.9°F | 34.4°F | 3.74 in | 56.8°F | 33.5°F | 3.43 in |
| December | 46.2°F | 28.0°F | 4.94 in | 46.1°F | 28.1°F | 4.23 in |
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 →