Climate twins of Live Oak, FL
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Live Oak'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: Live Oak vs its climate twin
Top match: Bluffton, SC
| Month | Live Oak | Bluffton | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 68.4°F | 44.7°F | 4.82 in | 61.4°F | 40.0°F | 3.28 in |
| February | 72.2°F | 47.7°F | 3.50 in | 65.1°F | 42.9°F | 2.80 in |
| March | 77.8°F | 52.0°F | 5.01 in | 71.4°F | 48.6°F | 3.50 in |
| April | 83.6°F | 57.5°F | 3.50 in | 78.2°F | 55.2°F | 3.39 in |
| May | 89.6°F | 65.1°F | 2.62 in | 84.7°F | 63.4°F | 3.62 in |
| June | 92.2°F | 72.0°F | 6.78 in | 89.6°F | 70.7°F | 6.65 in |
| July | 93.5°F | 74.1°F | 6.39 in | 92.3°F | 73.7°F | 5.75 in |
| August | 92.7°F | 74.2°F | 5.59 in | 90.8°F | 73.3°F | 5.46 in |
| September | 90.1°F | 70.8°F | 4.99 in | 86.4°F | 69.0°F | 4.35 in |
| October | 83.8°F | 62.0°F | 4.04 in | 79.0°F | 58.6°F | 3.72 in |
| November | 76.0°F | 52.2°F | 2.11 in | 70.2°F | 48.0°F | 2.39 in |
| December | 70.3°F | 47.1°F | 2.54 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 →