Climate twins of Grantsville, MD

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

Top match: Port Dickinson, NY

Month Grantsville Port Dickinson
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.4°F 16.7°F 3.01 in 29.5°F 15.5°F 2.62 in
February 37.6°F 16.7°F 2.70 in 32.2°F 16.9°F 2.41 in
March 45.8°F 23.6°F 3.65 in 40.7°F 24.0°F 3.05 in
April 58.7°F 33.0°F 3.53 in 54.2°F 35.0°F 3.63 in
May 67.8°F 43.1°F 4.35 in 66.2°F 46.1°F 3.78 in
June 75.8°F 52.0°F 4.34 in 74.0°F 54.9°F 4.69 in
July 79.5°F 56.3°F 4.11 in 78.4°F 59.4°F 3.80 in
August 78.5°F 54.4°F 3.67 in 76.7°F 58.0°F 4.10 in
September 73.2°F 47.7°F 3.62 in 69.5°F 50.6°F 4.01 in
October 61.1°F 36.6°F 2.98 in 57.1°F 40.5°F 3.76 in
November 49.3°F 27.8°F 2.66 in 45.1°F 30.7°F 3.11 in
December 38.9°F 21.3°F 3.06 in 34.3°F 21.9°F 3.08 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 →