Climate twins of Massena, NY

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

Top match: Marinette, WI

Month Massena Marinette
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 25.4°F 5.9°F 2.11 in 26.1°F 9.5°F 1.69 in
February 28.2°F 7.3°F 1.58 in 29.4°F 11.9°F 1.18 in
March 38.2°F 18.7°F 2.04 in 39.0°F 21.0°F 1.88 in
April 53.7°F 32.2°F 2.91 in 51.0°F 32.8°F 2.97 in
May 67.9°F 43.9°F 3.14 in 64.4°F 43.9°F 3.50 in
June 76.2°F 53.4°F 3.71 in 73.9°F 55.4°F 3.88 in
July 80.8°F 58.2°F 3.46 in 79.6°F 60.2°F 3.93 in
August 78.9°F 56.2°F 3.36 in 78.2°F 58.9°F 3.26 in
September 71.2°F 47.8°F 3.50 in 70.3°F 51.2°F 3.33 in
October 57.5°F 37.4°F 3.43 in 57.1°F 39.2°F 3.29 in
November 44.6°F 26.9°F 2.59 in 43.4°F 28.1°F 2.35 in
December 32.1°F 15.5°F 2.09 in 31.7°F 16.9°F 1.82 in

Cities that consider Massena their climate twin

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