Climate twins of Greenville, OH

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

Top match: Perrysville, IN

Month Greenville Perrysville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 35.1°F 19.0°F 2.84 in 35.4°F 17.4°F 2.42 in
February 39.1°F 21.4°F 2.23 in 39.9°F 20.8°F 1.99 in
March 49.6°F 30.2°F 3.23 in 51.1°F 29.7°F 2.68 in
April 62.8°F 40.3°F 4.18 in 64.1°F 39.9°F 3.93 in
May 73.2°F 51.7°F 4.31 in 74.9°F 51.5°F 4.42 in
June 81.6°F 60.9°F 4.42 in 83.3°F 60.5°F 4.78 in
July 84.6°F 63.6°F 3.95 in 85.6°F 62.8°F 4.14 in
August 83.3°F 61.1°F 3.40 in 84.6°F 60.5°F 3.17 in
September 78.1°F 53.4°F 2.75 in 79.9°F 52.9°F 2.72 in
October 65.6°F 42.4°F 2.90 in 67.5°F 42.0°F 3.23 in
November 51.6°F 32.6°F 3.17 in 52.3°F 32.0°F 3.14 in
December 39.8°F 24.6°F 2.88 in 40.2°F 22.9°F 2.42 in

Cities that consider Greenville their climate twin

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