Climate twins of Spanish Fort, AL

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

Top match: Jean Lafitte, LA

Month Spanish Fort Jean Lafitte
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 60.9°F 39.3°F 5.35 in 61.9°F 43.0°F 5.32 in
February 65.0°F 43.0°F 4.39 in 65.8°F 47.0°F 4.24 in
March 70.3°F 47.1°F 5.02 in 72.2°F 52.6°F 5.22 in
April 76.1°F 53.4°F 5.22 in 77.5°F 58.4°F 5.25 in
May 83.1°F 61.0°F 4.90 in 84.1°F 65.7°F 5.48 in
June 86.8°F 69.5°F 6.53 in 88.5°F 71.7°F 7.18 in
July 88.6°F 71.9°F 7.62 in 89.9°F 73.8°F 7.53 in
August 88.7°F 71.0°F 6.97 in 89.7°F 73.6°F 6.87 in
September 86.2°F 66.5°F 6.03 in 86.5°F 70.2°F 6.34 in
October 78.6°F 56.2°F 4.17 in 79.0°F 60.5°F 3.79 in
November 69.6°F 45.9°F 4.48 in 70.0°F 50.8°F 3.80 in
December 63.5°F 42.1°F 5.08 in 63.8°F 45.5°F 5.09 in

Cities that consider Spanish Fort their climate twin

These US cities have Spanish Fort in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Spanish Fort would feel familiar.

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 →