Climate twins of Courtland, AL

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

Top match: Rome, GA

Month Courtland Rome
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 50.7°F 31.3°F 5.00 in 52.0°F 30.2°F 4.98 in
February 55.3°F 34.4°F 5.47 in 56.1°F 32.8°F 4.81 in
March 63.4°F 41.4°F 5.52 in 64.8°F 39.0°F 5.42 in
April 72.3°F 48.5°F 4.85 in 73.7°F 46.4°F 4.88 in
May 79.6°F 57.9°F 4.93 in 80.6°F 55.3°F 4.11 in
June 86.2°F 65.8°F 4.33 in 86.5°F 64.1°F 4.79 in
July 88.8°F 70.1°F 5.04 in 89.7°F 67.9°F 4.89 in
August 88.1°F 68.4°F 3.71 in 88.9°F 67.0°F 4.20 in
September 83.4°F 61.2°F 4.03 in 83.8°F 60.5°F 3.66 in
October 73.1°F 49.5°F 3.70 in 73.8°F 48.4°F 3.78 in
November 61.7°F 38.8°F 4.22 in 63.0°F 37.7°F 4.27 in
December 53.4°F 34.4°F 5.51 in 54.3°F 33.1°F 5.30 in

Cities that consider Courtland their climate twin

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