Climate twins of Haines City, FL

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

Top match: Orange Park, FL

Month Haines City Orange Park
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 72.5°F 51.9°F 2.49 in 65.5°F 47.2°F 2.93 in
February 75.6°F 54.6°F 2.44 in 68.9°F 50.2°F 2.26 in
March 79.7°F 58.5°F 3.04 in 74.3°F 55.0°F 3.14 in
April 84.6°F 63.1°F 2.50 in 80.5°F 61.1°F 2.40 in
May 89.7°F 69.0°F 2.67 in 86.2°F 68.9°F 3.16 in
June 92.2°F 73.8°F 7.36 in 90.1°F 73.9°F 7.32 in
July 92.9°F 75.4°F 7.44 in 91.8°F 76.0°F 6.00 in
August 92.7°F 75.6°F 6.52 in 91.1°F 76.3°F 6.28 in
September 90.8°F 74.1°F 5.31 in 87.8°F 73.9°F 6.08 in
October 86.1°F 68.0°F 2.22 in 81.6°F 66.0°F 3.55 in
November 79.5°F 60.0°F 1.45 in 73.3°F 56.1°F 2.03 in
December 74.4°F 54.8°F 2.68 in 67.5°F 50.4°F 2.45 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 →