Climate twins of North Myrtle Beach, SC

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

Top match: Edenton, NC

Month North Myrtle Beach Edenton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 55.7°F 36.7°F 3.01 in 52.4°F 34.4°F 3.50 in
February 58.2°F 39.6°F 3.18 in 56.0°F 35.8°F 3.24 in
March 64.7°F 45.4°F 3.59 in 63.0°F 41.5°F 4.03 in
April 71.8°F 53.3°F 2.77 in 72.2°F 50.6°F 3.27 in
May 78.7°F 62.1°F 2.96 in 79.3°F 59.4°F 3.72 in
June 84.8°F 70.3°F 4.07 in 86.1°F 67.9°F 4.92 in
July 87.6°F 73.7°F 5.40 in 89.0°F 72.0°F 6.04 in
August 86.5°F 72.5°F 6.25 in 86.8°F 70.6°F 6.16 in
September 83.2°F 67.7°F 6.65 in 81.5°F 65.1°F 5.62 in
October 75.6°F 56.3°F 4.20 in 72.6°F 54.1°F 3.75 in
November 66.4°F 45.6°F 3.29 in 62.9°F 44.0°F 3.24 in
December 59.3°F 40.0°F 3.10 in 55.3°F 37.8°F 3.49 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 →