Climate twins of Georgetown, SC

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

Top match: Woodbine, GA

Month Georgetown Woodbine
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 58.6°F 37.0°F 3.55 in 62.6°F 38.0°F 3.61 in
February 61.5°F 38.8°F 3.55 in 65.9°F 41.5°F 3.67 in
March 67.5°F 44.0°F 3.62 in 71.9°F 46.7°F 3.58 in
April 76.2°F 52.7°F 3.35 in 77.7°F 52.7°F 3.52 in
May 82.4°F 61.1°F 3.37 in 83.7°F 61.0°F 3.92 in
June 88.0°F 68.7°F 5.43 in 88.2°F 68.2°F 6.20 in
July 91.1°F 72.5°F 7.09 in 90.9°F 70.9°F 5.51 in
August 90.0°F 72.1°F 6.94 in 89.2°F 71.1°F 7.76 in
September 85.7°F 67.2°F 6.49 in 85.3°F 67.4°F 6.70 in
October 77.6°F 55.7°F 5.00 in 78.6°F 57.3°F 4.74 in
November 68.1°F 44.8°F 3.11 in 70.4°F 47.6°F 2.33 in
December 60.4°F 39.8°F 3.93 in 64.5°F 41.5°F 3.04 in

Cities that consider Georgetown their climate twin

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