Climate twins of Williamsport, PA

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

Top match: Elyria, OH

Month Williamsport Elyria
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 35.6°F 20.5°F 2.99 in 36.3°F 21.5°F 2.84 in
February 39.1°F 21.9°F 2.39 in 39.6°F 22.8°F 2.37 in
March 48.9°F 29.1°F 3.29 in 49.0°F 30.2°F 2.99 in
April 62.5°F 39.2°F 3.62 in 62.8°F 39.9°F 3.75 in
May 73.5°F 49.7°F 3.83 in 73.3°F 50.8°F 3.94 in
June 81.4°F 58.9°F 3.92 in 81.0°F 60.2°F 4.04 in
July 85.6°F 63.2°F 4.30 in 84.9°F 64.7°F 4.13 in
August 83.7°F 62.2°F 3.80 in 83.0°F 62.9°F 4.11 in
September 76.3°F 54.7°F 4.54 in 77.0°F 56.2°F 4.05 in
October 63.6°F 43.2°F 3.69 in 65.3°F 45.6°F 3.63 in
November 50.8°F 33.3°F 3.09 in 52.3°F 35.6°F 3.04 in
December 39.8°F 25.7°F 3.26 in 40.8°F 27.4°F 3.07 in

Cities that consider Williamsport their climate twin

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