Climate twins of Pittman Center, TN

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

Top match: Thomas, WV

Month Pittman Center Thomas
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 33.5°F 17.5°F 7.17 in 31.9°F 15.9°F 6.20 in
February 35.2°F 19.5°F 5.80 in 34.9°F 17.5°F 5.28 in
March 41.0°F 24.1°F 6.69 in 42.9°F 24.0°F 5.90 in
April 50.2°F 31.7°F 7.53 in 55.8°F 34.3°F 5.31 in
May 56.5°F 40.1°F 7.30 in 64.4°F 44.9°F 5.70 in
June 62.5°F 47.1°F 8.71 in 71.5°F 52.8°F 6.21 in
July 65.6°F 50.3°F 8.71 in 75.3°F 56.6°F 6.27 in
August 65.0°F 49.3°F 7.53 in 73.6°F 55.2°F 4.49 in
September 60.8°F 44.3°F 6.68 in 68.1°F 49.5°F 4.07 in
October 53.5°F 35.8°F 5.15 in 57.3°F 38.4°F 4.09 in
November 43.6°F 26.8°F 6.40 in 45.7°F 28.7°F 4.12 in
December 37.0°F 21.4°F 6.82 in 36.4°F 21.2°F 5.52 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 →