Climate twins of Martin, TN

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

Top match: Portland, TN

Month Martin Portland
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 45.9°F 26.5°F 4.18 in 45.3°F 26.6°F 4.20 in
February 50.8°F 30.3°F 4.74 in 50.3°F 29.5°F 4.69 in
March 59.5°F 37.8°F 5.32 in 59.1°F 37.0°F 5.08 in
April 70.2°F 47.3°F 5.29 in 69.8°F 46.5°F 5.24 in
May 78.8°F 57.8°F 5.66 in 77.7°F 56.6°F 5.80 in
June 86.5°F 66.2°F 4.30 in 85.3°F 64.8°F 4.36 in
July 89.8°F 69.7°F 4.24 in 88.8°F 68.5°F 4.57 in
August 89.5°F 67.4°F 3.45 in 88.1°F 66.9°F 4.15 in
September 83.4°F 59.6°F 3.77 in 82.2°F 59.6°F 3.64 in
October 72.4°F 47.1°F 3.98 in 71.4°F 47.9°F 3.69 in
November 59.6°F 37.4°F 4.48 in 58.9°F 37.4°F 3.78 in
December 49.3°F 30.2°F 5.31 in 48.9°F 30.2°F 5.11 in

Cities that consider Martin their climate twin

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