Climate twins of Richland, GA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Richland'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: Richland vs its climate twin
Top match: Leighton, AL
| Month | Richland | Leighton | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 60.3°F | 33.8°F | 4.77 in | 52.4°F | 33.5°F | 4.71 in |
| February | 64.8°F | 35.8°F | 4.91 in | 56.7°F | 36.7°F | 4.79 in |
| March | 72.3°F | 41.2°F | 4.93 in | 65.2°F | 43.5°F | 5.14 in |
| April | 78.5°F | 47.5°F | 4.18 in | 74.4°F | 51.5°F | 4.80 in |
| May | 85.7°F | 56.6°F | 3.58 in | 82.1°F | 60.6°F | 4.55 in |
| June | 91.1°F | 64.2°F | 5.62 in | 88.9°F | 67.9°F | 5.05 in |
| July | 92.0°F | 67.9°F | 5.73 in | 91.6°F | 71.4°F | 4.78 in |
| August | 92.0°F | 67.4°F | 3.63 in | 91.2°F | 69.9°F | 3.77 in |
| September | 88.3°F | 62.3°F | 3.42 in | 86.1°F | 63.3°F | 3.55 in |
| October | 80.5°F | 51.0°F | 3.56 in | 75.7°F | 51.5°F | 3.47 in |
| November | 71.1°F | 39.4°F | 4.31 in | 63.8°F | 41.2°F | 4.15 in |
| December | 62.9°F | 35.1°F | 4.14 in | 55.0°F | 36.1°F | 5.48 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 →