Climate twins of Old Town, ME
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Old Town'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: Old Town vs its climate twin
Top match: Lowville, NY
| Month | Old Town | Lowville | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 27.1°F | 6.4°F | 3.66 in | 26.6°F | 8.0°F | 3.47 in |
| February | 30.7°F | 8.2°F | 2.98 in | 28.8°F | 9.4°F | 2.59 in |
| March | 39.3°F | 19.4°F | 3.78 in | 37.5°F | 18.5°F | 2.65 in |
| April | 52.1°F | 30.3°F | 3.68 in | 52.0°F | 31.6°F | 3.11 in |
| May | 64.6°F | 40.7°F | 3.47 in | 65.8°F | 43.2°F | 3.39 in |
| June | 72.9°F | 49.7°F | 4.19 in | 74.0°F | 52.7°F | 3.72 in |
| July | 79.1°F | 55.9°F | 3.45 in | 78.4°F | 57.3°F | 3.48 in |
| August | 77.7°F | 53.4°F | 3.15 in | 77.2°F | 55.2°F | 3.80 in |
| September | 69.8°F | 45.7°F | 3.67 in | 70.1°F | 47.2°F | 3.49 in |
| October | 57.0°F | 35.8°F | 4.27 in | 56.7°F | 37.5°F | 4.56 in |
| November | 44.4°F | 27.2°F | 3.99 in | 44.0°F | 27.5°F | 3.75 in |
| December | 33.5°F | 15.8°F | 4.15 in | 32.5°F | 16.8°F | 3.82 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 →