Climate twins of St. Cloud, FL
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches St. Cloud'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: St. Cloud vs its climate twin
Top match: Jacksonville, FL
| Month | St. Cloud | Jacksonville | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 71.8°F | 48.3°F | 2.67 in | 65.5°F | 47.2°F | 2.93 in |
| February | 74.4°F | 50.7°F | 2.37 in | 68.9°F | 50.2°F | 2.26 in |
| March | 77.9°F | 54.4°F | 3.07 in | 74.3°F | 55.0°F | 3.14 in |
| April | 83.0°F | 59.7°F | 2.43 in | 80.5°F | 61.1°F | 2.40 in |
| May | 87.4°F | 65.8°F | 4.17 in | 86.2°F | 68.9°F | 3.16 in |
| June | 90.0°F | 71.8°F | 9.18 in | 90.1°F | 73.9°F | 7.32 in |
| July | 91.5°F | 73.5°F | 7.21 in | 91.8°F | 76.0°F | 6.00 in |
| August | 91.4°F | 74.1°F | 8.38 in | 91.1°F | 76.3°F | 6.28 in |
| September | 89.5°F | 72.8°F | 5.88 in | 87.8°F | 73.9°F | 6.08 in |
| October | 84.6°F | 66.2°F | 3.07 in | 81.6°F | 66.0°F | 3.55 in |
| November | 78.6°F | 57.3°F | 1.99 in | 73.3°F | 56.1°F | 2.03 in |
| December | 73.5°F | 51.5°F | 2.15 in | 67.5°F | 50.4°F | 2.45 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 →