Climate twins of Leon, WV

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

Top match: Uniontown, PA

Month Leon Uniontown
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 40.4°F 19.3°F 3.20 in 39.5°F 21.4°F 3.25 in
February 44.1°F 21.5°F 3.00 in 42.7°F 22.5°F 2.81 in
March 52.5°F 27.9°F 4.30 in 51.1°F 28.7°F 3.73 in
April 66.4°F 37.6°F 3.60 in 64.2°F 38.2°F 3.81 in
May 74.2°F 49.3°F 4.51 in 73.3°F 48.4°F 4.36 in
June 81.9°F 58.2°F 4.46 in 80.6°F 57.4°F 4.81 in
July 84.8°F 61.8°F 5.16 in 84.3°F 61.9°F 4.75 in
August 83.7°F 60.3°F 4.21 in 83.1°F 60.3°F 3.63 in
September 78.2°F 53.1°F 4.49 in 77.5°F 53.0°F 3.55 in
October 66.7°F 40.6°F 2.77 in 65.8°F 41.4°F 3.17 in
November 54.3°F 30.0°F 2.97 in 53.6°F 31.9°F 3.15 in
December 44.2°F 24.6°F 3.50 in 44.0°F 26.3°F 3.33 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 →