Climate twins of Jemison, AL

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

Top match: Kennesaw, GA

Month Jemison Kennesaw
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 55.1°F 33.0°F 5.60 in 52.5°F 31.2°F 4.90 in
February 59.4°F 36.3°F 5.65 in 56.8°F 34.1°F 5.11 in
March 67.0°F 42.5°F 5.83 in 64.9°F 40.4°F 5.14 in
April 74.4°F 49.4°F 4.79 in 73.5°F 47.9°F 4.34 in
May 81.5°F 57.9°F 4.09 in 80.7°F 56.5°F 4.01 in
June 87.2°F 65.7°F 4.78 in 87.0°F 64.9°F 4.65 in
July 89.8°F 68.7°F 5.37 in 90.0°F 68.4°F 4.75 in
August 89.6°F 68.2°F 4.09 in 89.2°F 67.7°F 4.17 in
September 85.2°F 62.9°F 3.59 in 84.5°F 61.4°F 4.41 in
October 76.2°F 51.4°F 2.88 in 74.5°F 49.8°F 3.40 in
November 65.8°F 41.0°F 4.34 in 63.6°F 39.3°F 4.42 in
December 57.4°F 35.3°F 5.18 in 54.9°F 34.0°F 5.00 in

Cities that consider Jemison their climate twin

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