Climate twins of Fairhope, AL

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

Top match: Loreauville, LA

Month Fairhope Loreauville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 61.8°F 36.6°F 5.48 in 60.9°F 41.9°F 5.12 in
February 65.4°F 39.8°F 4.65 in 64.5°F 45.7°F 4.00 in
March 71.8°F 45.9°F 5.06 in 71.0°F 51.7°F 3.86 in
April 77.9°F 51.9°F 5.51 in 77.1°F 57.8°F 4.81 in
May 85.0°F 60.3°F 4.93 in 83.4°F 65.3°F 5.06 in
June 89.4°F 67.5°F 6.78 in 88.1°F 71.7°F 7.46 in
July 91.1°F 69.6°F 9.03 in 89.6°F 73.3°F 7.85 in
August 91.1°F 69.0°F 7.16 in 90.0°F 72.7°F 7.28 in
September 88.2°F 64.7°F 6.60 in 86.8°F 68.6°F 6.56 in
October 80.5°F 54.3°F 4.38 in 79.6°F 58.5°F 4.61 in
November 71.0°F 44.2°F 4.57 in 70.0°F 48.7°F 4.10 in
December 64.3°F 39.1°F 5.16 in 63.4°F 43.8°F 4.74 in

Cities that consider Fairhope their climate twin

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