Climate twins of South Amherst, OH

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

Top match: Wilkes-Barre, PA

Month South Amherst Wilkes-Barre
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 33.6°F 19.8°F 2.11 in 35.7°F 20.3°F 2.59 in
February 36.3°F 21.2°F 1.66 in 38.8°F 21.9°F 2.07 in
March 45.3°F 28.8°F 2.48 in 47.6°F 28.9°F 2.77 in
April 58.8°F 38.5°F 3.28 in 61.1°F 39.3°F 3.26 in
May 70.0°F 49.2°F 3.64 in 72.2°F 49.6°F 3.26 in
June 79.0°F 58.8°F 3.87 in 79.9°F 58.1°F 3.80 in
July 82.3°F 62.2°F 3.56 in 84.6°F 62.7°F 3.61 in
August 79.9°F 60.2°F 3.63 in 82.4°F 61.1°F 3.85 in
September 74.6°F 53.0°F 3.74 in 75.1°F 54.0°F 4.15 in
October 62.6°F 43.2°F 3.50 in 63.1°F 43.3°F 3.71 in
November 49.3°F 34.0°F 2.96 in 51.2°F 34.3°F 2.85 in
December 38.5°F 26.0°F 2.29 in 40.3°F 26.3°F 2.80 in

Cities that consider South Amherst their climate twin

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