Climate twins of Salamanca, NY

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

Top match: Manchester, VT

Month Salamanca Manchester
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 32.4°F 13.1°F 3.50 in 32.0°F 11.2°F 3.53 in
February 35.1°F 12.2°F 2.63 in 35.0°F 12.2°F 2.82 in
March 44.0°F 19.8°F 3.15 in 42.8°F 20.1°F 3.39 in
April 57.2°F 31.2°F 3.79 in 56.7°F 31.2°F 3.48 in
May 69.3°F 41.7°F 3.82 in 68.7°F 41.7°F 4.10 in
June 77.7°F 50.2°F 4.94 in 77.2°F 50.6°F 4.81 in
July 81.8°F 54.1°F 4.86 in 80.9°F 55.2°F 4.60 in
August 80.4°F 52.3°F 4.35 in 79.3°F 53.5°F 4.30 in
September 73.6°F 45.7°F 4.25 in 73.0°F 45.7°F 3.67 in
October 60.9°F 34.6°F 4.43 in 59.8°F 35.9°F 4.47 in
November 48.0°F 27.3°F 3.60 in 48.4°F 27.6°F 3.31 in
December 37.3°F 18.9°F 3.84 in 37.4°F 18.8°F 4.38 in

Cities that consider Salamanca their climate twin

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