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 →