Climate twins of Silver Creek, MS

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

Top match: Northport, AL

Month Silver Creek Northport
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 61.7°F 36.0°F 5.97 in 57.3°F 36.4°F 5.92 in
February 66.7°F 39.7°F 5.95 in 62.2°F 39.9°F 5.84 in
March 73.8°F 46.4°F 5.70 in 70.5°F 46.9°F 5.06 in
April 80.9°F 52.9°F 5.76 in 78.1°F 53.6°F 5.45 in
May 87.8°F 61.2°F 4.49 in 85.0°F 62.5°F 3.78 in
June 93.5°F 68.5°F 4.71 in 91.0°F 70.0°F 4.55 in
July 95.8°F 71.3°F 5.88 in 93.6°F 73.1°F 4.69 in
August 95.8°F 70.7°F 4.22 in 93.0°F 72.6°F 4.80 in
September 91.0°F 66.1°F 3.56 in 88.4°F 67.1°F 3.74 in
October 81.9°F 53.5°F 4.24 in 78.5°F 55.2°F 3.89 in
November 71.5°F 43.6°F 4.67 in 67.3°F 44.3°F 4.64 in
December 64.2°F 38.5°F 5.20 in 59.2°F 39.0°F 5.39 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 →