Climate twins of Lake City, FL
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Lake City'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: Lake City vs its climate twin
Top match: North Charleston, SC
| Month | Lake City | North Charleston | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 63.2°F | 40.9°F | 4.27 in | 60.2°F | 38.9°F | 3.37 in |
| February | 67.0°F | 44.0°F | 3.23 in | 63.8°F | 41.6°F | 3.05 in |
| March | 73.1°F | 48.6°F | 4.29 in | 70.1°F | 47.3°F | 3.35 in |
| April | 78.7°F | 54.5°F | 3.55 in | 77.1°F | 54.5°F | 3.29 in |
| May | 85.2°F | 61.6°F | 3.47 in | 83.6°F | 63.0°F | 3.32 in |
| June | 88.3°F | 68.1°F | 7.55 in | 88.5°F | 70.4°F | 6.21 in |
| July | 89.7°F | 70.3°F | 7.16 in | 91.3°F | 73.7°F | 6.60 in |
| August | 88.8°F | 70.4°F | 7.28 in | 89.8°F | 73.1°F | 6.97 in |
| September | 86.0°F | 67.3°F | 5.86 in | 85.4°F | 68.3°F | 6.01 in |
| October | 79.4°F | 58.6°F | 2.50 in | 77.9°F | 57.7°F | 4.33 in |
| November | 71.3°F | 49.1°F | 1.91 in | 69.4°F | 47.1°F | 2.66 in |
| December | 65.5°F | 43.5°F | 2.91 in | 62.7°F | 41.6°F | 3.35 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 →