Climate twins of Pike Road, AL
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Pike Road'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: Pike Road vs its climate twin
Top match: Flora, MS
| Month | Pike Road | Flora | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 60.2°F | 40.0°F | 5.19 in | 57.4°F | 37.5°F | 5.09 in |
| February | 65.2°F | 43.4°F | 5.10 in | 62.0°F | 40.8°F | 4.36 in |
| March | 72.3°F | 49.5°F | 4.87 in | 69.7°F | 47.8°F | 4.83 in |
| April | 79.2°F | 55.7°F | 4.23 in | 76.6°F | 54.6°F | 5.28 in |
| May | 86.3°F | 64.2°F | 3.92 in | 83.9°F | 63.3°F | 3.94 in |
| June | 91.6°F | 71.4°F | 4.31 in | 90.0°F | 70.6°F | 3.92 in |
| July | 94.2°F | 74.9°F | 4.58 in | 92.1°F | 73.0°F | 4.65 in |
| August | 93.8°F | 73.8°F | 3.88 in | 92.4°F | 72.6°F | 3.44 in |
| September | 89.2°F | 68.8°F | 3.60 in | 87.7°F | 67.6°F | 3.34 in |
| October | 80.0°F | 56.7°F | 3.07 in | 78.5°F | 55.6°F | 3.57 in |
| November | 69.8°F | 46.1°F | 4.25 in | 67.2°F | 44.5°F | 4.20 in |
| December | 62.3°F | 41.4°F | 4.77 in | 59.5°F | 39.5°F | 4.71 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 →