Climate twins of Parksville, SC

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

Top match: Fairburn, GA

Month Parksville Fairburn
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 55.4°F 35.9°F 4.03 in 54.0°F 35.6°F 4.59 in
February 59.1°F 38.0°F 3.91 in 58.2°F 38.9°F 4.55 in
March 66.9°F 44.1°F 4.32 in 65.9°F 45.3°F 4.68 in
April 75.5°F 51.4°F 3.08 in 73.8°F 52.5°F 3.81 in
May 82.5°F 60.1°F 3.43 in 81.1°F 61.3°F 3.56 in
June 89.0°F 67.8°F 4.72 in 87.1°F 68.6°F 4.54 in
July 92.2°F 71.7°F 4.74 in 90.1°F 71.8°F 4.75 in
August 90.6°F 70.6°F 4.46 in 89.0°F 71.3°F 4.30 in
September 85.5°F 65.0°F 3.67 in 83.9°F 65.9°F 3.82 in
October 76.0°F 54.5°F 3.04 in 74.4°F 54.9°F 3.28 in
November 65.7°F 43.6°F 3.30 in 64.1°F 44.2°F 3.98 in
December 57.9°F 38.2°F 4.21 in 56.2°F 38.4°F 4.57 in

Cities that consider Parksville their climate twin

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