Climate twins of Scotland, GA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Scotland'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: Scotland vs its climate twin
Top match: Walterboro, SC
| Month | Scotland | Walterboro | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 60.3°F | 37.9°F | 4.15 in | 58.1°F | 35.2°F | 4.01 in |
| February | 64.1°F | 40.7°F | 4.21 in | 62.0°F | 37.6°F | 3.74 in |
| March | 70.9°F | 46.7°F | 4.41 in | 68.7°F | 44.2°F | 3.50 in |
| April | 77.8°F | 53.2°F | 3.65 in | 76.1°F | 50.4°F | 3.56 in |
| May | 85.1°F | 61.5°F | 3.30 in | 82.8°F | 59.6°F | 3.59 in |
| June | 89.7°F | 68.8°F | 5.28 in | 87.4°F | 67.6°F | 5.63 in |
| July | 92.4°F | 71.7°F | 4.50 in | 90.5°F | 71.1°F | 5.21 in |
| August | 91.4°F | 71.0°F | 6.87 in | 88.9°F | 70.1°F | 7.17 in |
| September | 86.6°F | 66.0°F | 4.47 in | 84.2°F | 65.0°F | 4.60 in |
| October | 78.7°F | 55.2°F | 2.95 in | 76.4°F | 53.1°F | 3.68 in |
| November | 69.8°F | 45.2°F | 2.98 in | 67.7°F | 42.3°F | 3.08 in |
| December | 62.5°F | 40.3°F | 4.09 in | 61.1°F | 37.9°F | 3.65 in |
Cities that consider Scotland their climate twin
These US cities have Scotland in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Scotland would feel familiar.
- Smoaks, SC (ranks Scotland #1)
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 →