Climate twins of Oneonta, AL

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

Top match: Shuqualak, MS

Month Oneonta Shuqualak
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 53.2°F 32.9°F 5.49 in 54.1°F 32.7°F 5.53 in
February 57.3°F 35.4°F 5.51 in 58.7°F 35.4°F 5.62 in
March 66.0°F 42.4°F 5.09 in 66.4°F 42.6°F 5.12 in
April 73.8°F 49.5°F 5.64 in 74.5°F 49.8°F 5.79 in
May 80.8°F 58.7°F 4.19 in 82.0°F 59.6°F 3.90 in
June 87.3°F 66.9°F 5.24 in 87.8°F 67.6°F 4.50 in
July 90.9°F 70.4°F 5.04 in 90.3°F 70.3°F 4.79 in
August 89.8°F 69.5°F 3.61 in 90.5°F 69.7°F 4.18 in
September 84.9°F 62.7°F 4.09 in 85.7°F 63.0°F 3.98 in
October 75.0°F 51.4°F 3.40 in 76.3°F 50.8°F 3.88 in
November 64.2°F 41.2°F 4.23 in 64.9°F 40.3°F 4.40 in
December 55.4°F 35.4°F 5.84 in 56.5°F 34.4°F 5.48 in

Cities that consider Oneonta their climate twin

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