Climate twins of Hartsville, SC

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

Top match: Elizabeth City, NC

Month Hartsville Elizabeth City
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 54.9°F 31.9°F 3.73 in 53.2°F 33.6°F 3.64 in
February 58.8°F 34.1°F 3.35 in 56.2°F 34.7°F 3.29 in
March 66.4°F 40.0°F 3.76 in 63.2°F 41.1°F 4.17 in
April 75.7°F 48.1°F 2.98 in 72.2°F 50.4°F 3.47 in
May 82.4°F 57.7°F 3.90 in 78.9°F 58.9°F 4.07 in
June 88.7°F 66.5°F 4.64 in 85.8°F 68.4°F 4.49 in
July 91.9°F 70.3°F 5.91 in 88.9°F 72.5°F 5.93 in
August 90.2°F 68.9°F 5.20 in 87.3°F 70.9°F 5.91 in
September 84.8°F 63.1°F 4.92 in 82.2°F 66.0°F 5.32 in
October 75.6°F 50.6°F 3.41 in 74.1°F 54.7°F 3.70 in
November 65.3°F 39.8°F 2.91 in 64.0°F 43.7°F 3.39 in
December 57.6°F 34.6°F 3.81 in 56.4°F 37.6°F 3.88 in

Cities that consider Hartsville their climate twin

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