Climate twins of Dade City, FL

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

Top match: Homeland, GA

Month Dade City Homeland
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 70.0°F 49.4°F 3.06 in 66.6°F 43.7°F 3.83 in
February 73.2°F 52.0°F 2.38 in 70.2°F 46.5°F 3.37 in
March 77.5°F 55.3°F 3.18 in 76.3°F 50.9°F 3.73 in
April 82.6°F 60.3°F 3.06 in 82.7°F 56.7°F 3.50 in
May 87.7°F 65.7°F 2.98 in 88.4°F 63.8°F 3.28 in
June 89.4°F 71.0°F 8.34 in 92.6°F 70.4°F 6.96 in
July 90.1°F 72.6°F 8.10 in 94.4°F 72.7°F 7.07 in
August 90.0°F 72.8°F 8.28 in 93.2°F 72.9°F 7.76 in
September 88.4°F 71.1°F 6.63 in 89.5°F 69.7°F 5.59 in
October 83.4°F 64.9°F 3.06 in 82.6°F 61.1°F 3.41 in
November 76.6°F 57.0°F 1.86 in 74.7°F 51.7°F 1.89 in
December 72.0°F 52.2°F 2.53 in 68.4°F 46.3°F 2.77 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 →