Climate twins of Lowville, NY

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

Top match: Claremont, NH

Month Lowville Claremont
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 26.6°F 8.0°F 3.47 in 29.3°F 9.1°F 2.73 in
February 28.8°F 9.4°F 2.59 in 32.4°F 10.0°F 2.36 in
March 37.5°F 18.5°F 2.65 in 40.6°F 18.8°F 2.96 in
April 52.0°F 31.6°F 3.11 in 53.6°F 30.5°F 3.26 in
May 65.8°F 43.2°F 3.39 in 66.4°F 41.8°F 3.33 in
June 74.0°F 52.7°F 3.72 in 74.9°F 51.5°F 4.23 in
July 78.4°F 57.3°F 3.48 in 80.1°F 56.4°F 4.19 in
August 77.2°F 55.2°F 3.80 in 78.6°F 54.3°F 3.75 in
September 70.1°F 47.2°F 3.49 in 71.0°F 46.6°F 3.53 in
October 56.7°F 37.5°F 4.56 in 58.0°F 35.5°F 4.88 in
November 44.0°F 27.5°F 3.75 in 45.5°F 26.7°F 3.19 in
December 32.5°F 16.8°F 3.82 in 34.8°F 17.0°F 3.54 in

Cities that consider Lowville their climate twin

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