Climate twins of Franklin, NY

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

Top match: Salamanca, NY

Month Franklin Salamanca
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 31.6°F 11.4°F 2.88 in 32.4°F 13.1°F 3.50 in
February 34.1°F 11.6°F 2.40 in 35.1°F 12.2°F 2.63 in
March 42.6°F 19.3°F 3.33 in 44.0°F 19.8°F 3.15 in
April 56.6°F 31.5°F 3.85 in 57.2°F 31.2°F 3.79 in
May 69.4°F 42.1°F 3.88 in 69.3°F 41.7°F 3.82 in
June 76.9°F 51.9°F 4.89 in 77.7°F 50.2°F 4.94 in
July 81.6°F 56.6°F 4.46 in 81.8°F 54.1°F 4.86 in
August 79.3°F 54.8°F 4.79 in 80.4°F 52.3°F 4.35 in
September 72.9°F 47.8°F 3.91 in 73.6°F 45.7°F 4.25 in
October 59.7°F 37.2°F 4.26 in 60.9°F 34.6°F 4.43 in
November 47.3°F 27.5°F 3.28 in 48.0°F 27.3°F 3.60 in
December 36.6°F 19.5°F 3.33 in 37.3°F 18.9°F 3.84 in

Cities that consider Franklin their climate twin

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