Climate twins of Memphis, TX
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: Snyder, TX
| Month | Memphis | Snyder | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 53.3°F | 25.4°F | 0.78 in | 57.0°F | 28.9°F | 0.77 in |
| February | 57.0°F | 28.7°F | 0.84 in | 61.5°F | 32.2°F | 1.05 in |
| March | 66.5°F | 36.8°F | 1.38 in | 69.7°F | 40.2°F | 1.56 in |
| April | 75.2°F | 45.6°F | 2.00 in | 78.3°F | 48.0°F | 1.40 in |
| May | 83.2°F | 56.0°F | 3.49 in | 85.7°F | 58.5°F | 2.68 in |
| June | 91.9°F | 65.5°F | 2.92 in | 92.4°F | 67.1°F | 3.14 in |
| July | 96.2°F | 69.5°F | 2.35 in | 95.6°F | 70.3°F | 1.91 in |
| August | 94.8°F | 68.0°F | 2.46 in | 94.4°F | 69.5°F | 2.09 in |
| September | 86.6°F | 60.2°F | 2.44 in | 87.0°F | 61.9°F | 2.75 in |
| October | 75.4°F | 47.4°F | 1.78 in | 78.0°F | 50.7°F | 2.17 in |
| November | 63.7°F | 35.2°F | 1.01 in | 66.0°F | 38.3°F | 1.19 in |
| December | 53.9°F | 27.0°F | 0.83 in | 57.7°F | 30.4°F | 1.06 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 →