Climate twins of Hamburg, NY

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

Top match: Cleveland, NY

Month Hamburg Cleveland
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 29.5°F 15.8°F 4.84 in 28.6°F 11.0°F 3.86 in
February 30.7°F 15.6°F 3.88 in 30.5°F 11.2°F 3.35 in
March 39.2°F 22.5°F 3.65 in 39.4°F 19.8°F 3.34 in
April 52.7°F 33.7°F 4.45 in 53.7°F 32.1°F 4.09 in
May 64.9°F 45.9°F 4.14 in 67.4°F 42.8°F 4.32 in
June 73.3°F 55.0°F 4.52 in 75.5°F 52.0°F 4.41 in
July 77.3°F 59.3°F 4.38 in 80.6°F 56.2°F 4.49 in
August 75.7°F 57.7°F 4.04 in 79.1°F 55.2°F 4.02 in
September 70.2°F 51.3°F 4.63 in 72.5°F 47.8°F 4.28 in
October 57.3°F 40.9°F 5.39 in 59.4°F 38.1°F 5.07 in
November 45.1°F 31.7°F 4.81 in 46.3°F 28.7°F 4.44 in
December 34.8°F 22.6°F 4.53 in 34.6°F 19.4°F 4.26 in

Cities that consider Hamburg their climate twin

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