Climate twins of Five Points, AL

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

Top match: Town Creek, AL

Month Five Points Town Creek
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 55.7°F 30.2°F 5.70 in 50.7°F 31.3°F 5.00 in
February 60.0°F 33.8°F 5.33 in 55.3°F 34.4°F 5.47 in
March 67.6°F 39.4°F 5.70 in 63.4°F 41.4°F 5.52 in
April 75.0°F 45.7°F 4.80 in 72.3°F 48.5°F 4.85 in
May 81.7°F 55.3°F 4.40 in 79.6°F 57.9°F 4.93 in
June 87.0°F 63.5°F 4.48 in 86.2°F 65.8°F 4.33 in
July 90.0°F 67.4°F 4.80 in 88.8°F 70.1°F 5.04 in
August 88.9°F 66.3°F 4.23 in 88.1°F 68.4°F 3.71 in
September 84.2°F 60.5°F 3.53 in 83.4°F 61.2°F 4.03 in
October 75.0°F 48.6°F 3.63 in 73.1°F 49.5°F 3.70 in
November 65.4°F 37.5°F 4.31 in 61.7°F 38.8°F 4.22 in
December 57.5°F 32.8°F 5.61 in 53.4°F 34.4°F 5.51 in

Cities that consider Five Points their climate twin

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