Climate twins of Silver City, MS
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Silver City'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: Silver City vs its climate twin
Top match: Memphis, TN
| Month | Silver City | Memphis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 52.7°F | 36.1°F | 5.37 in | 50.9°F | 33.3°F | 4.14 in |
| February | 57.2°F | 39.7°F | 5.13 in | 55.5°F | 36.7°F | 4.55 in |
| March | 65.6°F | 47.0°F | 5.79 in | 64.2°F | 44.3°F | 5.74 in |
| April | 73.9°F | 54.3°F | 5.97 in | 73.4°F | 53.0°F | 5.87 in |
| May | 81.9°F | 64.3°F | 5.71 in | 81.7°F | 62.4°F | 5.27 in |
| June | 88.1°F | 71.0°F | 3.75 in | 89.4°F | 70.4°F | 3.99 in |
| July | 90.2°F | 73.5°F | 4.22 in | 91.9°F | 73.6°F | 4.82 in |
| August | 91.0°F | 72.3°F | 3.77 in | 91.5°F | 72.6°F | 3.37 in |
| September | 86.7°F | 66.1°F | 3.26 in | 86.0°F | 65.9°F | 3.03 in |
| October | 76.4°F | 54.9°F | 4.29 in | 75.1°F | 54.0°F | 3.98 in |
| November | 64.1°F | 45.0°F | 4.47 in | 62.6°F | 42.9°F | 4.69 in |
| December | 55.3°F | 38.6°F | 5.53 in | 53.4°F | 36.2°F | 5.49 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 →