Climate twins of Semmes, AL

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

Top match: Donaldsonville, LA

Month Semmes Donaldsonville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 61.5°F 40.7°F 5.66 in 62.1°F 41.7°F 5.78 in
February 65.6°F 44.4°F 4.47 in 66.1°F 45.2°F 4.11 in
March 71.8°F 50.0°F 5.44 in 72.4°F 51.0°F 4.03 in
April 77.8°F 56.0°F 5.71 in 78.4°F 57.1°F 4.88 in
May 84.9°F 63.8°F 5.39 in 84.9°F 65.1°F 5.64 in
June 89.4°F 70.8°F 6.55 in 89.2°F 71.6°F 6.97 in
July 90.9°F 73.1°F 7.69 in 90.6°F 73.5°F 6.51 in
August 90.8°F 72.9°F 6.87 in 90.8°F 73.1°F 6.37 in
September 87.5°F 68.8°F 5.30 in 87.6°F 69.1°F 5.39 in
October 79.7°F 58.2°F 3.95 in 80.3°F 58.6°F 4.65 in
November 70.2°F 47.7°F 4.60 in 70.9°F 48.6°F 4.21 in
December 63.5°F 43.0°F 5.45 in 64.4°F 43.7°F 4.86 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 →