Climate twins of Rock Creek, OH

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

Top match: Millerton, NY

Month Rock Creek Millerton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 32.2°F 16.5°F 3.32 in 35.4°F 14.2°F 3.00 in
February 34.8°F 16.7°F 2.55 in 38.5°F 15.2°F 2.55 in
March 43.8°F 24.8°F 3.02 in 46.8°F 23.3°F 3.41 in
April 57.2°F 35.2°F 3.88 in 60.2°F 33.0°F 3.35 in
May 68.4°F 45.7°F 4.00 in 71.7°F 43.8°F 3.87 in
June 76.6°F 54.7°F 4.98 in 79.6°F 52.7°F 4.79 in
July 80.6°F 58.6°F 4.94 in 84.6°F 58.1°F 4.78 in
August 79.2°F 57.0°F 4.19 in 82.3°F 56.6°F 4.44 in
September 73.1°F 50.4°F 4.52 in 75.5°F 49.3°F 4.69 in
October 61.2°F 40.3°F 4.35 in 63.1°F 38.0°F 4.74 in
November 48.3°F 31.9°F 3.51 in 50.8°F 28.7°F 3.49 in
December 37.4°F 23.7°F 3.67 in 39.9°F 20.3°F 3.75 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 →