Climate twins of Southampton, NY

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

Top match: Barnstable Town, MA

Month Southampton Barnstable Town
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 38.5°F 23.0°F 4.05 in 38.8°F 22.3°F 3.71 in
February 39.7°F 23.6°F 3.61 in 39.7°F 23.5°F 3.56 in
March 45.7°F 29.7°F 4.94 in 44.2°F 29.6°F 4.77 in
April 55.3°F 38.1°F 4.34 in 53.5°F 38.3°F 4.00 in
May 65.1°F 47.4°F 3.57 in 62.7°F 47.6°F 3.42 in
June 74.5°F 57.1°F 3.86 in 71.5°F 57.0°F 3.33 in
July 80.6°F 63.5°F 3.16 in 78.1°F 64.2°F 2.77 in
August 79.5°F 62.2°F 3.94 in 77.0°F 63.2°F 3.24 in
September 72.8°F 55.6°F 4.79 in 71.1°F 56.5°F 3.83 in
October 62.6°F 44.8°F 4.72 in 61.2°F 45.9°F 4.29 in
November 52.6°F 36.0°F 3.81 in 52.1°F 36.9°F 4.07 in
December 44.0°F 28.3°F 4.97 in 43.8°F 28.6°F 4.68 in

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 →