Climate twins of Middletown, VA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Middletown'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: Middletown vs its climate twin
Top match: Rayland, OH
| Month | Middletown | Rayland | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 42.1°F | 21.2°F | 2.48 in | 37.2°F | 22.2°F | 3.16 in |
| February | 45.4°F | 22.7°F | 2.23 in | 40.0°F | 23.4°F | 2.45 in |
| March | 53.4°F | 28.8°F | 3.43 in | 49.3°F | 30.0°F | 3.39 in |
| April | 65.6°F | 38.4°F | 3.22 in | 62.3°F | 39.8°F | 3.45 in |
| May | 74.2°F | 48.9°F | 3.94 in | 71.8°F | 50.4°F | 3.99 in |
| June | 82.6°F | 58.0°F | 4.04 in | 79.6°F | 59.6°F | 4.47 in |
| July | 87.1°F | 62.8°F | 3.82 in | 83.2°F | 64.3°F | 3.67 in |
| August | 85.5°F | 60.9°F | 3.66 in | 82.3°F | 63.1°F | 3.87 in |
| September | 78.7°F | 53.5°F | 4.39 in | 76.4°F | 56.6°F | 3.65 in |
| October | 67.4°F | 41.4°F | 3.05 in | 64.6°F | 45.0°F | 2.79 in |
| November | 56.0°F | 32.0°F | 2.89 in | 52.1°F | 34.6°F | 2.86 in |
| December | 45.7°F | 25.1°F | 2.81 in | 41.6°F | 27.6°F | 3.17 in |
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 →