Climate twins of Monterey, TN

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

Top match: Waynesboro, TN

Month Monterey Waynesboro
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.1°F 27.2°F 5.72 in 48.9°F 26.7°F 4.99 in
February 47.4°F 30.1°F 5.75 in 53.2°F 29.3°F 5.61 in
March 56.2°F 37.3°F 6.00 in 62.0°F 35.7°F 5.56 in
April 66.5°F 46.3°F 5.82 in 71.9°F 43.4°F 5.59 in
May 74.5°F 55.6°F 5.42 in 78.6°F 53.1°F 5.83 in
June 81.1°F 63.2°F 5.48 in 85.3°F 62.1°F 5.27 in
July 84.2°F 66.6°F 5.63 in 88.4°F 65.9°F 5.36 in
August 83.3°F 65.6°F 4.51 in 88.2°F 64.1°F 4.43 in
September 78.0°F 59.4°F 4.79 in 83.1°F 56.8°F 4.38 in
October 67.6°F 47.8°F 3.80 in 73.1°F 44.9°F 4.40 in
November 55.7°F 38.2°F 4.73 in 60.9°F 34.4°F 4.19 in
December 46.6°F 31.4°F 6.69 in 51.7°F 29.4°F 6.18 in

Cities that consider Monterey their climate twin

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