Climate twins of Berlin, AL

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

Top match: Winona, MS

Month Berlin Winona
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 51.1°F 30.9°F 5.52 in 52.6°F 29.2°F 5.38 in
February 55.3°F 33.6°F 5.86 in 57.1°F 31.8°F 5.45 in
March 63.2°F 40.1°F 5.52 in 65.3°F 38.6°F 5.64 in
April 71.6°F 46.8°F 5.33 in 72.7°F 46.0°F 6.12 in
May 78.8°F 55.3°F 4.60 in 79.9°F 55.6°F 4.98 in
June 85.8°F 63.7°F 4.35 in 86.7°F 63.9°F 4.49 in
July 87.9°F 67.5°F 4.82 in 89.3°F 67.2°F 5.33 in
August 87.7°F 66.8°F 4.76 in 89.6°F 66.0°F 4.07 in
September 82.6°F 60.0°F 4.04 in 85.3°F 59.5°F 3.95 in
October 73.5°F 48.1°F 3.81 in 75.2°F 47.2°F 3.74 in
November 61.8°F 37.8°F 4.34 in 63.7°F 36.5°F 4.16 in
December 53.8°F 33.7°F 5.71 in 55.3°F 31.8°F 5.72 in

Cities that consider Berlin their climate twin

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