Climate twins of Anderson, AL

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

Top match: Walthall, MS

Month Anderson Walthall
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 50.7°F 30.9°F 6.04 in 52.8°F 31.6°F 5.51 in
February 55.0°F 34.1°F 5.47 in 57.5°F 34.7°F 5.48 in
March 63.9°F 41.3°F 5.53 in 65.9°F 41.5°F 5.77 in
April 73.0°F 49.1°F 5.30 in 74.1°F 49.1°F 5.59 in
May 79.5°F 57.9°F 5.48 in 81.2°F 59.1°F 5.18 in
June 87.0°F 66.0°F 4.61 in 87.4°F 66.1°F 4.38 in
July 90.2°F 68.7°F 3.92 in 90.2°F 69.7°F 4.18 in
August 89.9°F 67.9°F 3.97 in 90.1°F 68.7°F 4.16 in
September 84.3°F 61.7°F 4.49 in 85.7°F 62.4°F 4.17 in
October 73.8°F 49.5°F 3.57 in 75.7°F 49.8°F 3.69 in
November 61.9°F 40.0°F 4.19 in 64.0°F 40.0°F 4.65 in
December 53.3°F 34.7°F 5.97 in 55.4°F 34.3°F 5.94 in

Cities that consider Anderson their climate twin

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