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 →