Climate twins of Avon Park, FL

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

Top match: Palatka, FL

Month Avon Park Palatka
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 73.0°F 49.2°F 2.42 in 64.5°F 47.1°F 2.85 in
February 76.4°F 52.0°F 2.01 in 68.2°F 49.9°F 2.58 in
March 80.0°F 55.4°F 2.61 in 73.8°F 53.7°F 3.10 in
April 84.7°F 60.5°F 2.63 in 79.6°F 59.3°F 2.50 in
May 89.4°F 66.1°F 3.86 in 85.3°F 65.3°F 3.47 in
June 91.4°F 71.3°F 9.24 in 88.3°F 70.8°F 7.77 in
July 91.8°F 73.0°F 7.41 in 90.0°F 72.8°F 6.36 in
August 92.3°F 73.3°F 7.56 in 89.1°F 73.0°F 6.72 in
September 90.2°F 72.3°F 7.45 in 85.6°F 71.4°F 7.31 in
October 86.1°F 66.2°F 3.26 in 80.0°F 65.0°F 4.54 in
November 79.7°F 58.1°F 2.16 in 72.7°F 56.6°F 1.98 in
December 75.4°F 53.0°F 2.07 in 67.0°F 50.5°F 2.22 in

Cities that consider Avon Park their climate twin

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