Climate twins of Oliver Springs, TN

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

Top match: North Courtland, AL

Month Oliver Springs North Courtland
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 48.1°F 30.0°F 5.07 in 50.7°F 31.3°F 5.00 in
February 53.0°F 33.0°F 5.59 in 55.3°F 34.4°F 5.47 in
March 62.2°F 40.0°F 5.12 in 63.4°F 41.4°F 5.52 in
April 72.1°F 47.9°F 5.20 in 72.3°F 48.5°F 4.85 in
May 79.7°F 56.9°F 4.07 in 79.6°F 57.9°F 4.93 in
June 86.1°F 65.2°F 4.55 in 86.2°F 65.8°F 4.33 in
July 89.1°F 69.0°F 5.54 in 88.8°F 70.1°F 5.04 in
August 88.4°F 67.7°F 3.46 in 88.1°F 68.4°F 3.71 in
September 82.8°F 61.2°F 3.83 in 83.4°F 61.2°F 4.03 in
October 72.1°F 49.0°F 3.12 in 73.1°F 49.5°F 3.70 in
November 60.1°F 38.3°F 4.62 in 61.7°F 38.8°F 4.22 in
December 50.8°F 33.2°F 5.36 in 53.4°F 34.4°F 5.51 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 →