Climate twins of Gainesville, AL
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Gainesville'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: Gainesville vs its climate twin
Top match: Terry, MS
| Month | Gainesville | Terry | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 55.4°F | 34.8°F | 5.88 in | 58.1°F | 36.7°F | 6.12 in |
| February | 60.4°F | 38.3°F | 5.36 in | 62.6°F | 40.1°F | 5.87 in |
| March | 68.1°F | 45.3°F | 6.39 in | 69.5°F | 46.3°F | 5.79 in |
| April | 75.1°F | 51.6°F | 4.92 in | 76.4°F | 53.4°F | 5.73 in |
| May | 81.9°F | 60.5°F | 3.87 in | 83.7°F | 61.7°F | 4.42 in |
| June | 87.8°F | 68.2°F | 4.81 in | 89.9°F | 68.7°F | 5.57 in |
| July | 91.1°F | 71.2°F | 4.70 in | 92.2°F | 71.3°F | 5.39 in |
| August | 90.7°F | 70.6°F | 7.19 in | 92.3°F | 70.7°F | 5.76 in |
| September | 86.2°F | 64.9°F | 3.67 in | 87.8°F | 65.7°F | 3.93 in |
| October | 76.4°F | 52.9°F | 3.83 in | 79.3°F | 54.1°F | 3.35 in |
| November | 65.6°F | 42.1°F | 4.21 in | 68.3°F | 44.4°F | 4.65 in |
| December | 57.8°F | 37.5°F | 5.13 in | 60.8°F | 39.1°F | 5.93 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 →