Climate twins of New Market, VA

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

Top match: Powell, OH

Month New Market Powell
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 42.5°F 21.3°F 2.38 in 36.3°F 21.3°F 2.22 in
February 46.0°F 23.0°F 1.81 in 39.8°F 23.2°F 1.94 in
March 53.5°F 29.1°F 2.88 in 50.2°F 30.9°F 2.99 in
April 65.1°F 38.3°F 3.12 in 63.3°F 40.9°F 3.54 in
May 73.5°F 48.7°F 4.02 in 73.3°F 51.2°F 3.85 in
June 81.3°F 57.8°F 4.30 in 81.3°F 60.2°F 4.05 in
July 85.4°F 61.9°F 4.07 in 84.3°F 64.0°F 3.72 in
August 84.0°F 60.0°F 3.40 in 83.2°F 62.3°F 3.05 in
September 78.1°F 52.7°F 3.69 in 77.0°F 54.5°F 3.00 in
October 67.1°F 40.8°F 2.55 in 64.7°F 43.4°F 2.52 in
November 55.6°F 31.3°F 2.28 in 51.4°F 33.6°F 2.36 in
December 46.1°F 24.4°F 2.66 in 40.4°F 26.3°F 2.52 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 →