Climate twins of Sardis, KY

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

Top match: South Charleston, WV

Month Sardis South Charleston
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 41.2°F 22.9°F 3.71 in 42.5°F 22.9°F 3.47 in
February 45.3°F 25.0°F 3.50 in 46.3°F 25.1°F 3.27 in
March 54.2°F 31.6°F 4.72 in 55.6°F 30.9°F 4.40 in
April 65.8°F 41.9°F 4.66 in 68.1°F 41.0°F 4.12 in
May 75.0°F 52.8°F 4.76 in 75.8°F 51.1°F 5.19 in
June 82.8°F 61.2°F 4.81 in 82.7°F 59.8°F 4.44 in
July 86.0°F 65.2°F 5.82 in 85.8°F 63.7°F 5.79 in
August 84.8°F 63.3°F 3.52 in 85.0°F 61.9°F 3.69 in
September 79.5°F 56.4°F 3.39 in 79.6°F 54.6°F 3.52 in
October 68.5°F 44.8°F 3.46 in 68.4°F 42.3°F 3.11 in
November 55.3°F 33.7°F 3.24 in 56.7°F 32.3°F 3.14 in
December 45.7°F 27.9°F 4.23 in 46.6°F 27.2°F 4.08 in

Cities that consider Sardis their climate twin

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