Climate twins of Lordstown, OH

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

Top match: DuBois, PA

Month Lordstown DuBois
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.7°F 16.8°F 3.11 in 31.5°F 17.4°F 2.93 in
February 37.6°F 17.2°F 2.31 in 34.7°F 18.8°F 2.38 in
March 46.7°F 24.8°F 3.13 in 44.2°F 26.1°F 3.26 in
April 60.3°F 35.0°F 3.76 in 57.8°F 36.5°F 3.72 in
May 71.3°F 45.3°F 3.76 in 68.2°F 46.6°F 3.69 in
June 79.1°F 54.3°F 4.10 in 75.4°F 54.8°F 4.66 in
July 82.9°F 58.5°F 4.64 in 79.3°F 58.8°F 4.36 in
August 81.6°F 56.7°F 3.49 in 77.9°F 57.6°F 3.89 in
September 75.1°F 50.0°F 3.67 in 71.0°F 51.0°F 3.96 in
October 63.0°F 39.5°F 3.30 in 59.4°F 40.7°F 3.40 in
November 50.4°F 30.6°F 2.61 in 46.9°F 31.5°F 3.21 in
December 39.4°F 23.2°F 2.93 in 36.3°F 23.3°F 2.96 in

Cities that consider Lordstown their climate twin

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