Climate twins of Virginia Beach, VA

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

Top match: Cary, NC

Month Virginia Beach Cary
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 50.3°F 31.6°F 3.17 in 50.9°F 30.9°F 3.65 in
February 52.6°F 33.2°F 2.84 in 54.4°F 32.6°F 3.00 in
March 58.6°F 38.9°F 3.57 in 61.9°F 39.1°F 4.08 in
April 68.6°F 47.7°F 3.37 in 71.6°F 47.6°F 3.63 in
May 75.5°F 56.3°F 3.65 in 78.7°F 56.7°F 3.83 in
June 83.3°F 65.5°F 4.15 in 85.7°F 65.2°F 4.33 in
July 87.4°F 70.3°F 5.76 in 89.0°F 69.4°F 5.07 in
August 85.4°F 69.1°F 5.09 in 87.4°F 67.7°F 4.64 in
September 79.9°F 64.0°F 4.55 in 81.5°F 61.7°F 5.27 in
October 71.2°F 52.7°F 4.15 in 71.8°F 49.5°F 3.71 in
November 61.3°F 41.5°F 3.06 in 62.2°F 39.5°F 3.45 in
December 54.0°F 35.4°F 3.26 in 53.9°F 34.1°F 3.67 in

Cities that consider Virginia Beach their climate twin

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