Climate twins of Hendricks, WV

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

Top match: Stanton, KY

Month Hendricks Stanton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 39.4°F 22.1°F 3.81 in 42.4°F 23.4°F 3.59 in
February 43.0°F 23.9°F 3.88 in 46.7°F 26.0°F 3.74 in
March 51.7°F 30.6°F 4.45 in 55.7°F 33.1°F 5.02 in
April 64.3°F 39.5°F 4.64 in 67.2°F 41.8°F 4.63 in
May 72.8°F 50.0°F 5.79 in 74.6°F 52.1°F 5.76 in
June 79.5°F 58.3°F 5.95 in 81.8°F 60.5°F 5.08 in
July 83.0°F 62.8°F 5.79 in 84.4°F 64.4°F 5.78 in
August 81.9°F 61.9°F 4.75 in 83.2°F 62.5°F 4.15 in
September 76.1°F 54.9°F 4.04 in 79.1°F 56.0°F 4.17 in
October 65.2°F 42.9°F 3.94 in 68.5°F 43.0°F 3.64 in
November 53.3°F 32.7°F 3.60 in 56.8°F 33.5°F 3.43 in
December 43.3°F 26.8°F 4.37 in 46.1°F 28.1°F 4.23 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 →