Climate twins of Carlton, GA

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

Top match: Franklin, GA

Month Carlton Franklin
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 54.8°F 32.0°F 4.30 in 54.4°F 30.8°F 4.92 in
February 58.1°F 35.8°F 4.96 in 59.5°F 33.6°F 5.05 in
March 65.8°F 40.3°F 4.72 in 66.9°F 39.2°F 5.37 in
April 73.6°F 47.7°F 3.61 in 74.8°F 47.1°F 4.15 in
May 81.1°F 56.6°F 3.30 in 81.3°F 56.1°F 3.69 in
June 88.2°F 65.0°F 4.50 in 87.1°F 64.6°F 3.90 in
July 90.8°F 69.0°F 3.93 in 89.7°F 68.2°F 4.71 in
August 88.4°F 67.8°F 4.78 in 88.9°F 67.7°F 4.63 in
September 84.9°F 61.5°F 3.83 in 84.0°F 61.5°F 3.87 in
October 75.5°F 50.4°F 2.97 in 74.5°F 49.3°F 3.00 in
November 64.8°F 39.6°F 3.76 in 65.6°F 38.7°F 4.09 in
December 56.8°F 34.6°F 4.87 in 56.8°F 33.4°F 5.14 in

Cities that consider Carlton their climate twin

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