Climate twins of Lake George, NY

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

Top match: Franklin, NH

Month Lake George Franklin
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 31.2°F 6.2°F 3.34 in 29.7°F 8.8°F 3.13 in
February 33.8°F 6.5°F 3.04 in 33.1°F 10.2°F 2.80 in
March 43.8°F 17.8°F 3.49 in 41.9°F 19.8°F 3.31 in
April 58.4°F 29.9°F 3.96 in 55.7°F 30.7°F 3.49 in
May 70.6°F 41.6°F 3.64 in 67.7°F 42.7°F 3.62 in
June 79.3°F 51.6°F 4.51 in 76.1°F 52.2°F 4.28 in
July 83.9°F 56.7°F 4.67 in 81.8°F 57.9°F 4.20 in
August 81.5°F 54.2°F 3.69 in 79.6°F 55.9°F 4.07 in
September 73.5°F 46.2°F 4.08 in 71.7°F 48.1°F 3.72 in
October 60.5°F 34.8°F 4.12 in 59.1°F 37.2°F 4.93 in
November 47.6°F 24.3°F 3.90 in 45.8°F 26.4°F 3.93 in
December 36.6°F 14.1°F 4.21 in 34.7°F 16.9°F 3.99 in

Cities that consider Lake George their climate twin

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