Climate twins of Aberdeen, MS

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

Top match: Oneonta, AL

Month Aberdeen Oneonta
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 52.3°F 30.7°F 4.97 in 53.2°F 32.9°F 5.49 in
February 56.7°F 33.4°F 5.30 in 57.3°F 35.4°F 5.51 in
March 65.3°F 40.9°F 4.56 in 66.0°F 42.4°F 5.09 in
April 73.3°F 48.4°F 5.79 in 73.8°F 49.5°F 5.64 in
May 81.0°F 57.5°F 4.76 in 80.8°F 58.7°F 4.19 in
June 87.5°F 65.4°F 4.28 in 87.3°F 66.9°F 5.24 in
July 90.4°F 69.2°F 4.30 in 90.9°F 70.4°F 5.04 in
August 89.9°F 68.4°F 3.46 in 89.8°F 69.5°F 3.61 in
September 85.2°F 62.2°F 3.74 in 84.9°F 62.7°F 4.09 in
October 75.2°F 50.0°F 3.32 in 75.0°F 51.4°F 3.40 in
November 63.5°F 38.6°F 3.98 in 64.2°F 41.2°F 4.23 in
December 54.7°F 32.8°F 5.80 in 55.4°F 35.4°F 5.84 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 →