Climate twins of North Tonawanda, NY

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

Top match: Fayetteville, NY

Month North Tonawanda Fayetteville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 33.2°F 16.7°F 3.19 in 31.7°F 16.5°F 2.58 in
February 35.5°F 16.9°F 2.44 in 33.6°F 17.5°F 2.46 in
March 44.1°F 23.8°F 2.94 in 42.4°F 25.2°F 3.04 in
April 56.9°F 33.5°F 3.64 in 56.4°F 36.2°F 3.48 in
May 69.8°F 44.6°F 3.38 in 69.2°F 47.3°F 3.42 in
June 78.8°F 55.0°F 3.30 in 77.3°F 56.7°F 3.56 in
July 82.8°F 59.1°F 3.46 in 81.7°F 62.0°F 3.86 in
August 81.5°F 57.8°F 3.10 in 80.3°F 60.4°F 3.70 in
September 74.3°F 50.4°F 3.90 in 73.1°F 52.7°F 3.38 in
October 61.2°F 40.4°F 3.94 in 60.1°F 42.4°F 3.89 in
November 49.2°F 30.7°F 3.46 in 48.3°F 32.7°F 3.23 in
December 38.0°F 23.1°F 3.39 in 37.1°F 23.7°F 3.28 in

Cities that consider North Tonawanda their climate twin

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