Climate twins of Russell Springs, KY

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

Top match: Clinchport, VA

Month Russell Springs Clinchport
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.5°F 24.5°F 5.48 in 43.9°F 23.9°F 4.87 in
February 48.1°F 26.9°F 4.57 in 48.1°F 26.4°F 4.95 in
March 57.2°F 33.8°F 5.36 in 56.9°F 32.6°F 5.38 in
April 67.5°F 42.2°F 5.12 in 67.3°F 40.8°F 5.03 in
May 75.4°F 53.0°F 5.41 in 74.8°F 50.6°F 5.08 in
June 82.6°F 61.1°F 4.97 in 81.4°F 59.0°F 4.59 in
July 85.6°F 65.2°F 5.09 in 83.8°F 63.2°F 5.49 in
August 84.8°F 63.5°F 4.19 in 83.4°F 61.9°F 4.49 in
September 79.4°F 56.0°F 4.64 in 78.8°F 55.5°F 3.80 in
October 68.9°F 44.5°F 3.14 in 68.7°F 42.6°F 3.14 in
November 56.7°F 33.5°F 4.01 in 57.2°F 32.4°F 3.66 in
December 47.4°F 29.0°F 5.04 in 47.5°F 27.2°F 5.53 in

Cities that consider Russell Springs their climate twin

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