Climate twins of Plains, GA

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

Top match: Vidette, GA

Month Plains Vidette
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 58.1°F 35.9°F 4.56 in 57.1°F 34.0°F 4.36 in
February 61.9°F 38.7°F 4.50 in 60.9°F 36.8°F 4.11 in
March 68.9°F 44.9°F 4.91 in 68.1°F 42.7°F 4.35 in
April 75.7°F 51.4°F 4.07 in 75.8°F 50.1°F 3.20 in
May 83.4°F 60.1°F 3.06 in 83.0°F 59.2°F 3.36 in
June 88.5°F 67.6°F 4.57 in 88.5°F 67.3°F 4.57 in
July 90.4°F 70.7°F 5.02 in 91.2°F 70.4°F 4.66 in
August 89.2°F 69.9°F 4.68 in 89.6°F 69.7°F 4.93 in
September 85.0°F 64.9°F 3.95 in 84.9°F 63.9°F 4.03 in
October 77.0°F 53.8°F 2.69 in 76.4°F 52.0°F 2.58 in
November 67.9°F 43.8°F 3.31 in 66.5°F 41.7°F 3.02 in
December 60.6°F 38.8°F 5.34 in 58.8°F 36.4°F 4.40 in

Cities that consider Plains their climate twin

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