Climate twins of Woodstock, VA

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

Top match: Rayland, OH

Month Woodstock Rayland
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 42.3°F 21.3°F 2.90 in 37.2°F 22.2°F 3.16 in
February 45.7°F 22.7°F 2.33 in 40.0°F 23.4°F 2.45 in
March 53.7°F 29.5°F 3.23 in 49.3°F 30.0°F 3.39 in
April 64.8°F 39.0°F 2.82 in 62.3°F 39.8°F 3.45 in
May 73.4°F 49.1°F 4.36 in 71.8°F 50.4°F 3.99 in
June 81.6°F 58.3°F 4.22 in 79.6°F 59.6°F 4.47 in
July 86.1°F 62.6°F 3.94 in 83.2°F 64.3°F 3.67 in
August 84.6°F 61.1°F 3.44 in 82.3°F 63.1°F 3.87 in
September 78.5°F 53.6°F 4.44 in 76.4°F 56.6°F 3.65 in
October 67.7°F 41.8°F 2.60 in 64.6°F 45.0°F 2.79 in
November 56.1°F 31.4°F 2.49 in 52.1°F 34.6°F 2.86 in
December 46.2°F 25.3°F 2.78 in 41.6°F 27.6°F 3.17 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 →