Climate twins of Memphis, TN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Memphis'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: Memphis vs its climate twin
Top match: Haskell, AR
| Month | Memphis | Haskell | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 50.9°F | 33.3°F | 4.14 in | 52.5°F | 30.6°F | 3.84 in |
| February | 55.5°F | 36.7°F | 4.55 in | 57.1°F | 34.3°F | 4.20 in |
| March | 64.2°F | 44.3°F | 5.74 in | 65.7°F | 41.4°F | 5.05 in |
| April | 73.4°F | 53.0°F | 5.87 in | 74.5°F | 49.9°F | 5.63 in |
| May | 81.7°F | 62.4°F | 5.27 in | 81.6°F | 59.6°F | 5.22 in |
| June | 89.4°F | 70.4°F | 3.99 in | 89.0°F | 68.6°F | 3.94 in |
| July | 91.9°F | 73.6°F | 4.82 in | 92.9°F | 72.3°F | 4.16 in |
| August | 91.5°F | 72.6°F | 3.37 in | 92.6°F | 70.8°F | 3.52 in |
| September | 86.0°F | 65.9°F | 3.03 in | 86.7°F | 62.8°F | 3.80 in |
| October | 75.1°F | 54.0°F | 3.98 in | 76.0°F | 51.0°F | 4.37 in |
| November | 62.6°F | 42.9°F | 4.69 in | 64.1°F | 40.3°F | 4.77 in |
| December | 53.4°F | 36.2°F | 5.49 in | 54.8°F | 33.2°F | 4.91 in |
Cities that consider Memphis their climate twin
These US cities have Memphis in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Memphis would feel familiar.
- Silver City, MS (ranks Memphis #1)
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 →