Climate twins of Fairfield, KY

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

Top match: Griffin, IN

Month Fairfield Griffin
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.4°F 22.0°F 3.52 in 41.2°F 23.6°F 3.22 in
February 48.4°F 24.9°F 3.86 in 45.0°F 25.8°F 3.80 in
March 58.5°F 32.5°F 4.96 in 55.7°F 34.9°F 4.59 in
April 69.7°F 41.1°F 4.87 in 67.6°F 44.8°F 4.52 in
May 79.2°F 51.4°F 5.59 in 77.5°F 55.2°F 5.75 in
June 87.1°F 59.8°F 4.94 in 85.7°F 64.5°F 4.46 in
July 90.3°F 64.0°F 5.33 in 88.6°F 67.6°F 5.28 in
August 89.2°F 62.4°F 3.47 in 87.6°F 64.8°F 3.64 in
September 84.0°F 55.1°F 3.72 in 82.2°F 57.3°F 3.72 in
October 71.5°F 42.2°F 3.86 in 70.1°F 45.5°F 3.90 in
November 57.9°F 33.6°F 3.88 in 56.3°F 35.7°F 3.35 in
December 47.4°F 26.7°F 4.50 in 44.8°F 27.6°F 3.77 in

Cities that consider Fairfield their climate twin

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