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How the match works. Each city is compared on its average daily high and low for all 12 months, its yearly rain and snow, how that rain is spread across the seasons, and its Köppen climate type. Southern Hemisphere cities are compared season to season, so a January in Sydney lines up with a July in the US. Scenery isn't scored, but the climate type is a decent proxy for how green or dry a place looks.

How scenery is scored. The scenery line on each card names what drove its score: vegetation, mountains and terrain, coast or lakes, and elevation, in that order of weight. Each place gets a profile from real map data: distance to the ocean and how much water is nearby (Natural Earth coastlines and lakes), how much the land rises around it within 25 and 100 km (elevations of 135,000 GeoNames places and NOAA stations), its own elevation, and how green, dry or forested the land looks in NASA's Blue Marble satellite imagery. The pictures are those NASA images, centered on each place. Tags that match your city are highlighted. Scenery counts for 40% of the "Both" score.

Home prices are the typical value of a 3-bedroom home from the Zillow Home Value Index (January 2021), by ZIP code and rolled up to each town. Outside the US, prices are estimates in US dollars from Numbeo's 2022 crowd-sourced price per square metre (outside the city centre), scaled to a 100 m² home and calibrated against the Zillow figures for the 450 US cities that appear in both; where Numbeo has no figure for a city, the country-wide average is used and labelled. Prices have risen since, so treat them as relative: a place that was 40% cheaper then is probably still much cheaper now.

Pictures are NASA Blue Marble satellite imagery, roughly 1,000 km wide, centred on each place with Natural Earth state and country borders drawn on. Tap one to open the same spot in Google Maps.

The top three are always at least 150 km apart, so you get three different regions instead of three suburbs of one city. The "Also close" list fills in nearby alternatives.

Every US town of 1,000 people or more (about 16,000 places) is searchable, each tied to its nearest NOAA weather station (1981 to 2010 normals for highs, lows and precipitation), and each card says which station and how far away it is. Matches are drawn from towns of 10,000 or more so results are places with real amenities; smaller towns can still be your starting point. About 3,300 cities outside the US come from Wikipedia climate tables (compiled by the open-source temperature-map project), with monthly precipitation sampled from the WorldClim 2.1 global grid (1970 to 2000 averages, about 4 km resolution). Snow is inferred from months that are both freezing and wet. Climate types for non-US cities are from the Kottek et al. Köppen-Geiger map.