Climate twins of Mendenhall, MS

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

Top match: Northport, AL

Month Mendenhall Northport
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 61.5°F 37.6°F 5.75 in 57.3°F 36.4°F 5.92 in
February 65.9°F 40.5°F 5.53 in 62.2°F 39.9°F 5.84 in
March 73.3°F 47.1°F 5.71 in 70.5°F 46.9°F 5.06 in
April 79.8°F 53.7°F 5.88 in 78.1°F 53.6°F 5.45 in
May 86.8°F 63.1°F 3.72 in 85.0°F 62.5°F 3.78 in
June 92.7°F 70.9°F 4.58 in 91.0°F 70.0°F 4.55 in
July 94.7°F 73.6°F 5.21 in 93.6°F 73.1°F 4.69 in
August 94.6°F 72.6°F 4.50 in 93.0°F 72.6°F 4.80 in
September 90.6°F 66.8°F 3.36 in 88.4°F 67.1°F 3.74 in
October 81.9°F 54.3°F 3.12 in 78.5°F 55.2°F 3.89 in
November 71.1°F 43.9°F 4.47 in 67.3°F 44.3°F 4.64 in
December 63.1°F 39.7°F 5.71 in 59.2°F 39.0°F 5.39 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 →