Climate twins of Shelbyville, IN

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

Top match: Jamestown, OH

Month Shelbyville Jamestown
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 36.2°F 19.8°F 3.32 in 37.6°F 22.7°F 3.39 in
February 40.4°F 22.4°F 2.68 in 41.7°F 25.2°F 2.66 in
March 51.2°F 30.9°F 3.30 in 51.9°F 33.6°F 3.74 in
April 63.7°F 41.4°F 4.68 in 64.8°F 43.5°F 4.56 in
May 73.5°F 52.7°F 4.70 in 73.4°F 53.7°F 4.82 in
June 82.0°F 61.4°F 4.86 in 80.8°F 62.0°F 4.72 in
July 84.8°F 64.0°F 4.16 in 83.4°F 64.8°F 3.98 in
August 83.8°F 61.9°F 3.20 in 82.2°F 62.7°F 3.25 in
September 78.7°F 54.7°F 3.17 in 77.1°F 56.1°F 2.72 in
October 66.4°F 43.4°F 3.13 in 66.1°F 45.7°F 3.10 in
November 52.4°F 33.3°F 3.44 in 53.3°F 35.9°F 3.07 in
December 40.7°F 25.2°F 3.39 in 42.0°F 27.9°F 3.25 in

Cities that consider Shelbyville their climate twin

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