Climate twins of Scottsburg, VA

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

Top match: Mooresville, NC

Month Scottsburg Mooresville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 50.7°F 26.5°F 3.56 in 50.2°F 27.2°F 3.63 in
February 54.0°F 28.2°F 2.95 in 53.9°F 29.6°F 3.15 in
March 61.9°F 34.2°F 4.03 in 61.3°F 36.6°F 4.01 in
April 71.8°F 43.3°F 3.67 in 70.9°F 45.4°F 3.81 in
May 78.7°F 53.4°F 4.35 in 78.2°F 55.4°F 3.52 in
June 86.2°F 62.5°F 4.88 in 85.3°F 63.8°F 4.30 in
July 90.0°F 67.4°F 4.01 in 88.6°F 67.7°F 3.82 in
August 88.3°F 65.9°F 3.82 in 86.9°F 66.4°F 3.99 in
September 82.6°F 59.0°F 4.69 in 81.1°F 59.4°F 4.02 in
October 72.8°F 45.7°F 3.43 in 71.7°F 46.3°F 3.08 in
November 62.6°F 34.7°F 3.40 in 61.4°F 35.5°F 3.22 in
December 53.8°F 29.3°F 3.58 in 53.0°F 29.8°F 3.72 in

Cities that consider Scottsburg their climate twin

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