Climate twins of Greenfield, MA

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

Top match: Port Jervis, NY

Month Greenfield Port Jervis
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 33.3°F 14.6°F 3.52 in 33.9°F 16.0°F 3.07 in
February 37.4°F 13.6°F 3.09 in 37.3°F 17.0°F 2.63 in
March 45.3°F 23.3°F 3.93 in 46.2°F 24.5°F 3.66 in
April 58.5°F 34.3°F 3.80 in 60.1°F 34.7°F 3.78 in
May 69.6°F 45.2°F 3.98 in 71.3°F 45.6°F 3.58 in
June 78.1°F 53.9°F 4.84 in 78.8°F 55.0°F 4.72 in
July 82.7°F 59.3°F 4.06 in 83.6°F 60.0°F 4.72 in
August 81.1°F 57.3°F 4.67 in 81.4°F 58.3°F 4.64 in
September 74.1°F 50.3°F 4.24 in 73.8°F 51.0°F 4.54 in
October 62.0°F 38.9°F 4.73 in 61.8°F 39.6°F 4.67 in
November 49.6°F 29.1°F 3.80 in 49.4°F 30.1°F 3.27 in
December 39.5°F 20.7°F 4.73 in 38.5°F 22.2°F 3.90 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 →