Climate twins of Lumberton, NC

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

Top match: Edenton, NC

Month Lumberton Edenton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 54.4°F 33.2°F 3.70 in 52.4°F 34.4°F 3.50 in
February 57.7°F 35.1°F 3.41 in 56.0°F 35.8°F 3.24 in
March 65.3°F 40.9°F 3.61 in 63.0°F 41.5°F 4.03 in
April 74.3°F 49.1°F 3.43 in 72.2°F 50.6°F 3.27 in
May 81.3°F 58.6°F 4.26 in 79.3°F 59.4°F 3.72 in
June 87.7°F 67.5°F 5.23 in 86.1°F 67.9°F 4.92 in
July 90.8°F 71.3°F 5.60 in 89.0°F 72.0°F 6.04 in
August 88.8°F 69.7°F 6.16 in 86.8°F 70.6°F 6.16 in
September 83.8°F 64.0°F 5.18 in 81.5°F 65.1°F 5.62 in
October 74.9°F 51.8°F 3.39 in 72.6°F 54.1°F 3.75 in
November 65.3°F 41.3°F 3.24 in 62.9°F 44.0°F 3.24 in
December 57.4°F 35.8°F 3.62 in 55.3°F 37.8°F 3.49 in

Cities that consider Lumberton their climate twin

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