Climate twins of Heflin, AL

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

Top match: St. Florian, AL

Month Heflin St. Florian
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 53.3°F 29.7°F 5.58 in 50.5°F 31.2°F 4.88 in
February 57.6°F 32.6°F 5.85 in 55.4°F 34.5°F 5.15 in
March 65.6°F 38.8°F 5.60 in 63.5°F 41.6°F 5.34 in
April 73.4°F 45.9°F 4.83 in 72.3°F 48.6°F 5.05 in
May 79.9°F 54.9°F 4.67 in 79.4°F 57.1°F 4.98 in
June 85.3°F 63.1°F 4.58 in 86.5°F 65.1°F 4.81 in
July 88.5°F 66.9°F 5.39 in 89.2°F 68.6°F 5.06 in
August 87.9°F 66.1°F 4.36 in 88.9°F 67.6°F 4.45 in
September 83.5°F 59.9°F 3.33 in 83.8°F 61.0°F 3.98 in
October 74.5°F 47.9°F 3.36 in 73.6°F 49.2°F 3.72 in
November 64.0°F 37.3°F 4.51 in 62.1°F 39.1°F 4.27 in
December 55.7°F 32.7°F 5.35 in 53.5°F 34.5°F 5.87 in

Cities that consider Heflin their climate twin

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