Climate twins of Fruitland, MD

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

Top match: Franklinton, NC

Month Fruitland Franklinton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 47.4°F 29.3°F 3.58 in 51.6°F 27.5°F 3.74 in
February 50.4°F 30.4°F 3.19 in 55.0°F 29.5°F 2.86 in
March 57.8°F 36.7°F 4.20 in 62.7°F 35.5°F 4.06 in
April 68.9°F 46.2°F 3.57 in 72.4°F 44.2°F 3.48 in
May 77.0°F 55.1°F 3.72 in 79.3°F 54.1°F 3.71 in
June 84.5°F 64.6°F 4.32 in 86.7°F 63.1°F 4.70 in
July 88.6°F 69.7°F 4.83 in 90.2°F 68.1°F 4.85 in
August 86.3°F 67.6°F 5.26 in 88.5°F 66.2°F 5.51 in
September 80.9°F 61.5°F 4.33 in 82.6°F 59.9°F 4.91 in
October 70.7°F 50.0°F 3.93 in 72.8°F 46.4°F 3.56 in
November 60.1°F 40.4°F 3.41 in 62.8°F 35.4°F 3.43 in
December 51.7°F 32.9°F 3.67 in 54.6°F 30.5°F 3.48 in

Cities that consider Fruitland their climate twin

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