Climate twins of Bascom, FL

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

Top match: Repton, AL

Month Bascom Repton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 62.9°F 40.7°F 4.04 in 62.4°F 38.4°F 5.04 in
February 67.1°F 43.8°F 4.49 in 66.6°F 41.6°F 4.67 in
March 73.7°F 49.2°F 5.01 in 73.4°F 47.3°F 4.68 in
April 80.1°F 55.1°F 3.72 in 79.5°F 53.0°F 4.09 in
May 87.5°F 64.2°F 3.15 in 87.2°F 61.3°F 3.75 in
June 91.2°F 71.1°F 5.07 in 91.7°F 69.1°F 4.97 in
July 92.4°F 73.0°F 5.10 in 93.2°F 72.0°F 5.40 in
August 91.4°F 72.8°F 4.93 in 92.9°F 71.5°F 5.21 in
September 88.7°F 68.6°F 4.06 in 89.4°F 66.8°F 4.57 in
October 81.1°F 58.0°F 3.06 in 81.1°F 55.3°F 3.37 in
November 71.7°F 47.4°F 3.67 in 71.1°F 44.5°F 4.18 in
December 64.7°F 43.0°F 4.81 in 64.1°F 40.4°F 5.35 in

Cities that consider Bascom their climate twin

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