Climate twins of Forest Acres, SC

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

Top match: Nicholls, GA

Month Forest Acres Nicholls
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 59.6°F 36.7°F 3.84 in 62.6°F 39.3°F 3.72 in
February 64.1°F 39.7°F 3.54 in 66.5°F 42.3°F 3.37 in
March 71.8°F 45.8°F 4.11 in 72.8°F 47.5°F 4.17 in
April 80.6°F 53.6°F 2.92 in 79.7°F 53.3°F 2.85 in
May 87.2°F 61.8°F 3.63 in 86.6°F 61.7°F 2.78 in
June 92.6°F 68.9°F 5.41 in 91.0°F 69.0°F 5.34 in
July 95.6°F 72.1°F 5.17 in 93.2°F 71.6°F 5.23 in
August 93.8°F 71.1°F 5.01 in 92.0°F 71.5°F 5.37 in
September 88.8°F 65.7°F 4.25 in 87.9°F 67.1°F 3.80 in
October 79.5°F 54.2°F 3.31 in 80.3°F 57.0°F 2.93 in
November 68.9°F 44.1°F 3.04 in 71.5°F 46.5°F 2.21 in
December 61.3°F 38.7°F 3.88 in 64.7°F 41.7°F 3.03 in

Cities that consider Forest Acres their climate twin

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