Climate twins of Waynesboro, VA

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

Top match: York, PA

Month Waynesboro York
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 44.2°F 23.4°F 3.16 in 41.2°F 21.3°F 3.27 in
February 47.6°F 24.9°F 2.80 in 45.3°F 23.2°F 2.81 in
March 55.4°F 31.3°F 4.11 in 54.5°F 30.2°F 4.01 in
April 66.3°F 39.8°F 3.94 in 67.2°F 40.0°F 3.62 in
May 74.2°F 50.0°F 3.59 in 76.5°F 49.7°F 4.20 in
June 82.1°F 58.6°F 4.47 in 83.9°F 58.5°F 4.29 in
July 85.7°F 63.3°F 3.68 in 87.7°F 63.1°F 4.52 in
August 84.6°F 61.4°F 3.69 in 86.0°F 61.5°F 3.96 in
September 77.5°F 54.5°F 5.46 in 79.7°F 54.5°F 5.10 in
October 67.7°F 42.6°F 3.41 in 68.2°F 43.0°F 3.94 in
November 56.4°F 32.7°F 4.03 in 55.7°F 33.1°F 3.22 in
December 47.1°F 26.8°F 2.99 in 44.9°F 26.1°F 3.52 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 →