Climate twins of Port Royal, VA

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

Top match: Buchanan, VA

Month Port Royal Buchanan
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 45.0°F 26.3°F 3.28 in 44.1°F 26.9°F 3.16 in
February 48.5°F 28.4°F 2.89 in 48.8°F 28.5°F 2.68 in
March 56.7°F 35.0°F 3.89 in 56.8°F 35.1°F 3.69 in
April 67.9°F 44.5°F 3.54 in 69.5°F 44.0°F 3.82 in
May 75.4°F 53.5°F 4.13 in 76.6°F 54.0°F 4.44 in
June 83.1°F 62.4°F 3.97 in 83.4°F 62.8°F 3.94 in
July 87.4°F 66.8°F 3.96 in 86.5°F 67.3°F 4.54 in
August 85.6°F 65.1°F 3.49 in 84.8°F 66.0°F 3.03 in
September 79.0°F 58.4°F 4.66 in 78.8°F 59.2°F 4.13 in
October 68.6°F 46.6°F 4.00 in 68.1°F 47.0°F 3.41 in
November 58.1°F 36.7°F 3.32 in 56.5°F 35.5°F 3.28 in
December 48.6°F 30.0°F 3.63 in 47.3°F 29.8°F 3.49 in

Cities that consider Port Royal their climate twin

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