Climate twins of Dauphin Island, AL

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

Top match: Kinston, AL

Month Dauphin Island Kinston
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 58.6°F 46.1°F 5.23 in 63.2°F 41.1°F 5.35 in
February 61.5°F 49.4°F 4.35 in 67.2°F 44.2°F 4.94 in
March 66.8°F 55.8°F 4.90 in 74.6°F 49.7°F 5.31 in
April 73.5°F 63.1°F 5.16 in 80.7°F 55.9°F 4.90 in
May 80.8°F 71.2°F 5.01 in 87.8°F 63.3°F 4.06 in
June 86.2°F 76.4°F 5.87 in 92.2°F 71.7°F 5.57 in
July 88.2°F 78.2°F 6.80 in 93.9°F 73.9°F 6.03 in
August 88.1°F 78.3°F 6.02 in 93.1°F 73.7°F 5.08 in
September 85.2°F 75.5°F 5.24 in 89.6°F 69.4°F 4.72 in
October 77.4°F 66.7°F 3.52 in 81.1°F 58.2°F 3.49 in
November 67.8°F 55.6°F 3.86 in 71.9°F 47.7°F 4.14 in
December 61.2°F 49.2°F 5.13 in 64.4°F 43.1°F 5.52 in

Cities that consider Dauphin Island their climate twin

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