Climate twins of Grayson, KY

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

Top match: Sand Fork, WV

Month Grayson Sand Fork
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.0°F 21.8°F 3.25 in 42.0°F 22.4°F 3.50 in
February 47.0°F 23.6°F 3.28 in 45.8°F 24.2°F 3.28 in
March 56.5°F 29.3°F 4.46 in 54.9°F 30.3°F 4.34 in
April 68.8°F 38.5°F 4.08 in 67.3°F 39.4°F 3.87 in
May 76.2°F 49.2°F 4.89 in 75.0°F 49.7°F 5.01 in
June 83.6°F 58.4°F 4.00 in 81.9°F 59.1°F 4.67 in
July 86.8°F 62.8°F 4.78 in 85.2°F 63.4°F 4.93 in
August 85.6°F 61.5°F 4.69 in 84.6°F 62.2°F 3.95 in
September 80.1°F 53.7°F 3.05 in 79.2°F 54.7°F 3.64 in
October 69.3°F 40.5°F 2.92 in 68.5°F 42.6°F 3.11 in
November 57.1°F 30.5°F 2.95 in 56.4°F 32.0°F 3.14 in
December 46.7°F 25.9°F 3.78 in 45.9°F 26.8°F 3.67 in

Cities that consider Grayson their climate twin

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