Climate twins of Pleasant Garden, NC

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Pleasant Garden'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.

Rank 1 closest
Ashland, VA
similarity distance: 1.111 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Snow Hill, MD
similarity distance: 1.174 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Dagsboro, DE
similarity distance: 1.195 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Pleasant Garden vs its climate twin

Top match: Ashland, VA

Month Pleasant Garden Ashland
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 49.4°F 27.3°F 3.68 in 46.8°F 27.2°F 3.29 in
February 53.7°F 29.5°F 3.05 in 51.1°F 29.0°F 2.82 in
March 61.5°F 36.4°F 4.31 in 59.9°F 35.7°F 3.79 in
April 71.5°F 45.6°F 3.93 in 71.1°F 45.2°F 3.41 in
May 77.9°F 55.3°F 3.60 in 76.5°F 54.7°F 4.24 in
June 85.1°F 64.4°F 3.95 in 82.9°F 63.2°F 4.58 in
July 88.4°F 68.4°F 4.10 in 86.7°F 67.6°F 4.29 in
August 86.4°F 66.8°F 3.90 in 85.1°F 66.2°F 3.91 in
September 80.6°F 60.1°F 4.59 in 79.2°F 59.5°F 4.19 in
October 71.1°F 47.9°F 3.35 in 68.9°F 47.7°F 3.69 in
November 61.1°F 36.7°F 3.57 in 59.0°F 37.4°F 3.37 in
December 52.4°F 30.4°F 3.43 in 49.9°F 30.2°F 3.72 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 →