Climate twins of McIntosh, AL

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

Top match: Geneva, AL

Month McIntosh Geneva
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 59.9°F 36.0°F 5.72 in 61.8°F 34.8°F 5.37 in
February 64.1°F 39.3°F 5.46 in 65.9°F 38.5°F 5.76 in
March 71.4°F 45.4°F 5.52 in 73.2°F 44.0°F 5.63 in
April 77.5°F 51.3°F 4.74 in 79.2°F 50.0°F 5.05 in
May 84.5°F 59.7°F 3.95 in 86.6°F 58.6°F 3.33 in
June 89.5°F 67.7°F 6.26 in 90.7°F 66.5°F 6.26 in
July 91.2°F 70.5°F 5.40 in 92.3°F 69.0°F 6.34 in
August 91.2°F 70.0°F 5.17 in 91.5°F 68.7°F 5.43 in
September 87.2°F 65.3°F 4.37 in 88.4°F 64.0°F 5.14 in
October 78.7°F 53.4°F 3.75 in 80.8°F 52.2°F 3.57 in
November 68.7°F 42.6°F 4.35 in 71.0°F 41.7°F 4.78 in
December 61.9°F 38.2°F 5.52 in 64.1°F 37.1°F 5.60 in

Cities that consider McIntosh their climate twin

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