Climate twins of Hornsby, TN

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

Top match: Horse Cave, KY

Month Hornsby Horse Cave
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 49.0°F 28.1°F 4.26 in 47.2°F 29.0°F 4.14 in
February 53.5°F 31.1°F 4.95 in 52.4°F 31.3°F 4.40 in
March 62.3°F 38.7°F 5.86 in 61.6°F 39.0°F 5.15 in
April 71.9°F 47.6°F 5.61 in 72.8°F 46.5°F 5.27 in
May 79.1°F 57.1°F 5.33 in 80.7°F 56.2°F 5.77 in
June 86.4°F 65.3°F 4.71 in 87.3°F 64.0°F 4.88 in
July 89.5°F 69.0°F 4.39 in 90.3°F 67.9°F 4.97 in
August 89.1°F 67.2°F 3.46 in 89.9°F 65.8°F 3.44 in
September 83.6°F 59.6°F 3.90 in 83.8°F 58.7°F 3.79 in
October 73.3°F 47.5°F 3.95 in 73.5°F 48.0°F 3.74 in
November 61.3°F 37.0°F 4.25 in 60.4°F 38.5°F 3.92 in
December 51.7°F 31.1°F 5.47 in 50.5°F 32.3°F 5.41 in

Cities that consider Hornsby their climate twin

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