Climate twins of Martinsburg, WV

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

Top match: Crown City, OH

Month Martinsburg Crown City
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 41.6°F 22.9°F 2.82 in 40.4°F 22.9°F 3.36 in
February 45.2°F 23.5°F 2.60 in 44.2°F 25.0°F 2.78 in
March 53.5°F 30.1°F 3.73 in 53.5°F 31.4°F 3.95 in
April 65.5°F 39.8°F 3.60 in 65.9°F 41.1°F 3.58 in
May 74.9°F 51.0°F 4.20 in 74.1°F 50.8°F 4.12 in
June 83.1°F 59.5°F 3.51 in 81.6°F 60.1°F 4.07 in
July 87.2°F 64.1°F 4.12 in 84.9°F 64.1°F 4.34 in
August 85.7°F 61.9°F 3.04 in 83.9°F 62.8°F 3.08 in
September 79.2°F 54.4°F 4.17 in 78.3°F 56.2°F 3.81 in
October 67.4°F 43.0°F 3.35 in 67.0°F 44.1°F 2.65 in
November 55.6°F 33.1°F 3.01 in 54.6°F 33.5°F 2.74 in
December 45.1°F 26.7°F 3.28 in 44.4°F 27.1°F 3.65 in

Cities that consider Martinsburg their climate twin

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