Climate twins of Harleyville, SC

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

Top match: Bath, NC

Month Harleyville Bath
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 58.2°F 34.6°F 3.83 in 53.4°F 36.2°F 3.90 in
February 61.5°F 36.4°F 3.60 in 55.6°F 38.3°F 3.41 in
March 68.5°F 42.3°F 3.67 in 62.2°F 44.2°F 3.75 in
April 76.3°F 50.0°F 3.27 in 71.8°F 52.7°F 3.54 in
May 83.1°F 59.0°F 3.57 in 78.5°F 61.9°F 3.97 in
June 88.4°F 67.4°F 5.53 in 85.6°F 69.9°F 5.12 in
July 91.2°F 70.2°F 5.73 in 88.9°F 73.8°F 5.24 in
August 89.9°F 70.0°F 6.01 in 87.0°F 72.7°F 5.92 in
September 84.8°F 64.6°F 5.09 in 81.9°F 68.0°F 5.90 in
October 76.7°F 53.0°F 3.72 in 73.4°F 57.0°F 4.01 in
November 67.3°F 41.7°F 2.88 in 63.8°F 47.5°F 3.12 in
December 60.4°F 36.9°F 3.55 in 56.3°F 39.8°F 3.68 in

Cities that consider Harleyville their climate twin

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