Climate twins of Pikeville, TN

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

Top match: St. Florian, AL

Month Pikeville St. Florian
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 49.4°F 30.1°F 4.80 in 50.5°F 31.2°F 4.88 in
February 54.1°F 32.8°F 5.11 in 55.4°F 34.5°F 5.15 in
March 62.6°F 39.0°F 5.33 in 63.5°F 41.6°F 5.34 in
April 72.2°F 46.5°F 5.30 in 72.3°F 48.6°F 5.05 in
May 79.1°F 55.0°F 4.78 in 79.4°F 57.1°F 4.98 in
June 85.4°F 63.0°F 4.92 in 86.5°F 65.1°F 4.81 in
July 88.2°F 67.0°F 5.17 in 89.2°F 68.6°F 5.06 in
August 87.8°F 65.6°F 3.75 in 88.9°F 67.6°F 4.45 in
September 82.7°F 59.4°F 3.80 in 83.8°F 61.0°F 3.98 in
October 72.8°F 47.5°F 3.51 in 73.6°F 49.2°F 3.72 in
November 60.8°F 37.5°F 4.39 in 62.1°F 39.1°F 4.27 in
December 51.7°F 32.8°F 5.35 in 53.5°F 34.5°F 5.87 in

Cities that consider Pikeville their climate twin

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