Climate twins of Fort Lauderdale, FL
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Fort Lauderdale'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: Fort Lauderdale vs its climate twin
Top match: Palm Shores, FL
| Month | Fort Lauderdale | Palm Shores | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 76.6°F | 59.6°F | 2.52 in | 72.2°F | 50.5°F | 2.77 in |
| February | 78.1°F | 61.4°F | 3.30 in | 74.6°F | 52.8°F | 2.28 in |
| March | 80.1°F | 63.8°F | 3.20 in | 77.8°F | 56.2°F | 2.93 in |
| April | 83.3°F | 68.3°F | 3.51 in | 81.8°F | 61.4°F | 2.53 in |
| May | 86.0°F | 72.3°F | 6.32 in | 85.9°F | 67.4°F | 3.82 in |
| June | 88.8°F | 75.7°F | 7.99 in | 89.1°F | 71.7°F | 7.52 in |
| July | 90.5°F | 76.5°F | 6.05 in | 90.9°F | 72.9°F | 6.81 in |
| August | 90.7°F | 77.0°F | 7.25 in | 90.7°F | 73.4°F | 7.49 in |
| September | 89.4°F | 76.5°F | 9.30 in | 88.6°F | 72.9°F | 8.55 in |
| October | 86.2°F | 73.6°F | 7.65 in | 84.3°F | 68.0°F | 5.28 in |
| November | 81.6°F | 67.6°F | 4.17 in | 78.5°F | 59.9°F | 2.57 in |
| December | 78.3°F | 63.3°F | 2.99 in | 74.0°F | 54.1°F | 2.73 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 →