Climate twins of Cottage Grove, TN

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

Top match: Brownsville, KY

Month Cottage Grove Brownsville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 45.9°F 26.6°F 4.03 in 44.0°F 27.4°F 4.07 in
February 50.7°F 29.6°F 4.89 in 48.7°F 30.8°F 4.60 in
March 60.0°F 36.9°F 5.33 in 58.0°F 38.3°F 5.02 in
April 70.4°F 45.7°F 5.24 in 69.0°F 47.7°F 5.19 in
May 77.9°F 55.6°F 5.68 in 76.3°F 56.5°F 5.52 in
June 85.1°F 64.1°F 4.32 in 82.4°F 64.2°F 4.58 in
July 88.2°F 67.7°F 4.39 in 85.5°F 67.4°F 4.46 in
August 88.1°F 66.3°F 3.81 in 85.4°F 66.3°F 3.11 in
September 82.3°F 58.9°F 3.91 in 79.9°F 59.5°F 3.68 in
October 71.7°F 46.7°F 3.82 in 69.7°F 48.5°F 4.15 in
November 59.0°F 36.4°F 4.54 in 57.3°F 38.6°F 4.00 in
December 49.1°F 30.0°F 5.08 in 47.3°F 31.7°F 4.65 in

Cities that consider Cottage Grove their climate twin

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