Climate twins of Lee, FL

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

Top match: Port Wentworth, GA

Month Lee Port Wentworth
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 63.0°F 40.2°F 4.92 in 61.4°F 40.0°F 3.28 in
February 67.0°F 43.6°F 3.84 in 65.1°F 42.9°F 2.80 in
March 73.4°F 48.4°F 5.06 in 71.4°F 48.6°F 3.50 in
April 79.2°F 54.8°F 2.91 in 78.2°F 55.2°F 3.39 in
May 85.8°F 62.4°F 2.66 in 84.7°F 63.4°F 3.62 in
June 89.7°F 69.5°F 7.62 in 89.6°F 70.7°F 6.65 in
July 90.9°F 71.5°F 6.17 in 92.3°F 73.7°F 5.75 in
August 90.6°F 71.6°F 6.57 in 90.8°F 73.3°F 5.46 in
September 87.0°F 67.9°F 3.96 in 86.4°F 69.0°F 4.35 in
October 80.5°F 58.1°F 3.29 in 79.0°F 58.6°F 3.72 in
November 71.7°F 48.6°F 2.32 in 70.2°F 48.0°F 2.39 in
December 65.5°F 43.0°F 3.45 in 63.7°F 42.6°F 3.21 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 →