Climate twins of Otter Creek, FL
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Otter Creek'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: Otter Creek vs its climate twin
Top match: Apalachicola, FL
| Month | Otter Creek | Apalachicola | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 66.4°F | 44.1°F | 3.61 in | 64.0°F | 43.7°F | 4.31 in |
| February | 69.7°F | 47.2°F | 3.25 in | 67.2°F | 45.9°F | 4.19 in |
| March | 74.9°F | 51.0°F | 3.81 in | 71.8°F | 51.7°F | 5.06 in |
| April | 80.3°F | 56.6°F | 2.97 in | 77.5°F | 57.5°F | 3.41 in |
| May | 86.1°F | 62.9°F | 2.78 in | 85.4°F | 65.0°F | 3.09 in |
| June | 88.7°F | 69.9°F | 8.03 in | 89.5°F | 72.6°F | 6.31 in |
| July | 89.4°F | 72.0°F | 8.32 in | 91.5°F | 74.6°F | 6.43 in |
| August | 89.0°F | 72.5°F | 9.87 in | 90.6°F | 74.6°F | 8.40 in |
| September | 86.9°F | 70.2°F | 5.82 in | 88.4°F | 71.3°F | 5.89 in |
| October | 81.4°F | 61.7°F | 3.17 in | 82.3°F | 61.9°F | 4.38 in |
| November | 73.6°F | 51.8°F | 2.22 in | 73.9°F | 51.3°F | 3.26 in |
| December | 68.2°F | 46.7°F | 3.25 in | 67.0°F | 46.1°F | 3.16 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 →