Climate twins of Jacksonville, AR

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

Top match: Dell, AR

Month Jacksonville Dell
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 51.2°F 27.9°F 3.55 in 45.3°F 29.8°F 3.85 in
February 55.7°F 30.9°F 4.42 in 50.5°F 33.5°F 4.13 in
March 64.5°F 39.0°F 5.20 in 59.6°F 41.6°F 4.81 in
April 73.3°F 47.1°F 5.25 in 70.6°F 51.4°F 5.40 in
May 80.8°F 57.5°F 6.11 in 79.7°F 61.3°F 5.90 in
June 88.5°F 66.1°F 3.64 in 88.0°F 69.7°F 3.76 in
July 92.4°F 69.2°F 3.26 in 90.1°F 72.5°F 4.00 in
August 91.9°F 67.9°F 3.82 in 89.0°F 70.8°F 3.55 in
September 86.4°F 60.7°F 3.67 in 83.4°F 63.5°F 2.76 in
October 75.8°F 47.9°F 4.17 in 72.5°F 51.9°F 4.07 in
November 63.5°F 37.5°F 5.19 in 59.1°F 41.4°F 4.28 in
December 53.7°F 30.9°F 5.05 in 48.9°F 33.5°F 5.07 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 →