Climate twins of Olive Hill, KY

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

Top match: Summersville, WV

Month Olive Hill Summersville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 39.9°F 21.1°F 3.35 in 40.5°F 20.7°F 3.48 in
February 44.7°F 23.1°F 3.29 in 44.2°F 22.6°F 3.11 in
March 53.7°F 29.3°F 4.92 in 51.9°F 28.6°F 4.27 in
April 66.3°F 38.3°F 4.39 in 64.9°F 38.1°F 4.18 in
May 74.1°F 49.8°F 4.91 in 72.3°F 48.2°F 5.26 in
June 79.4°F 58.6°F 5.14 in 78.4°F 56.7°F 5.19 in
July 81.9°F 63.0°F 6.05 in 81.4°F 60.7°F 5.85 in
August 81.7°F 60.3°F 4.08 in 80.4°F 59.2°F 4.16 in
September 75.9°F 53.5°F 3.67 in 75.5°F 52.7°F 3.83 in
October 65.6°F 40.5°F 3.05 in 64.9°F 41.4°F 3.25 in
November 54.1°F 30.4°F 2.97 in 53.7°F 31.7°F 3.28 in
December 44.0°F 25.7°F 4.00 in 44.6°F 25.5°F 3.89 in

Cities that consider Olive Hill their climate twin

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