Climate twins of Laurinburg, NC
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Laurinburg'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: Laurinburg vs its climate twin
Top match: Bath, NC
| Month | Laurinburg | Bath | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 55.0°F | 33.2°F | 3.55 in | 53.4°F | 36.2°F | 3.90 in |
| February | 59.4°F | 35.6°F | 3.26 in | 55.6°F | 38.3°F | 3.41 in |
| March | 67.1°F | 42.0°F | 3.42 in | 62.2°F | 44.2°F | 3.75 in |
| April | 76.7°F | 50.1°F | 2.95 in | 71.8°F | 52.7°F | 3.54 in |
| May | 83.8°F | 60.2°F | 3.50 in | 78.5°F | 61.9°F | 3.97 in |
| June | 89.9°F | 68.2°F | 5.01 in | 85.6°F | 69.9°F | 5.12 in |
| July | 93.0°F | 71.8°F | 4.33 in | 88.9°F | 73.8°F | 5.24 in |
| August | 90.7°F | 70.3°F | 5.08 in | 87.0°F | 72.7°F | 5.92 in |
| September | 85.5°F | 64.5°F | 5.48 in | 81.9°F | 68.0°F | 5.90 in |
| October | 76.4°F | 52.2°F | 3.19 in | 73.4°F | 57.0°F | 4.01 in |
| November | 66.0°F | 41.8°F | 3.24 in | 63.8°F | 47.5°F | 3.12 in |
| December | 58.2°F | 36.0°F | 3.55 in | 56.3°F | 39.8°F | 3.68 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 →