Climate twins of Cedartown, GA

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

Top match: Leighton, AL

Month Cedartown Leighton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 53.3°F 32.3°F 4.90 in 52.4°F 33.5°F 4.71 in
February 57.5°F 35.2°F 5.10 in 56.7°F 36.7°F 4.79 in
March 66.0°F 41.5°F 5.27 in 65.2°F 43.5°F 5.14 in
April 74.8°F 49.4°F 4.43 in 74.4°F 51.5°F 4.80 in
May 81.5°F 57.9°F 4.02 in 82.1°F 60.6°F 4.55 in
June 88.1°F 66.7°F 3.91 in 88.9°F 67.9°F 5.05 in
July 91.0°F 70.1°F 4.93 in 91.6°F 71.4°F 4.78 in
August 90.5°F 69.4°F 3.55 in 91.2°F 69.9°F 3.77 in
September 85.3°F 62.6°F 3.73 in 86.1°F 63.3°F 3.55 in
October 75.3°F 50.3°F 3.64 in 75.7°F 51.5°F 3.47 in
November 63.8°F 39.3°F 4.40 in 63.8°F 41.2°F 4.15 in
December 55.7°F 35.0°F 4.95 in 55.0°F 36.1°F 5.48 in

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 →