Climate twins of Pink Hill, NC

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

Top match: Summerville, SC

Month Pink Hill Summerville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 54.0°F 31.1°F 3.69 in 58.2°F 34.5°F 3.63 in
February 57.0°F 32.6°F 3.17 in 61.9°F 37.0°F 3.27 in
March 64.2°F 38.4°F 3.71 in 68.5°F 42.2°F 3.89 in
April 73.7°F 47.1°F 3.55 in 75.6°F 49.5°F 3.45 in
May 80.6°F 57.0°F 3.79 in 82.3°F 59.1°F 3.52 in
June 87.2°F 65.7°F 5.44 in 87.2°F 67.2°F 5.60 in
July 90.0°F 69.5°F 6.60 in 90.1°F 70.9°F 6.78 in
August 88.2°F 67.6°F 6.12 in 89.7°F 70.4°F 6.17 in
September 83.4°F 62.1°F 5.91 in 84.7°F 64.8°F 5.88 in
October 74.7°F 49.6°F 4.06 in 76.6°F 53.0°F 4.12 in
November 64.6°F 39.4°F 3.44 in 67.7°F 42.2°F 2.97 in
December 56.7°F 33.9°F 3.55 in 61.3°F 37.4°F 3.42 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 →