Climate twins of Sullivan's Island, SC

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Sullivan's Island'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: Sullivan's Island vs its climate twin

Top match: Bath, NC

Month Sullivan's Island Bath
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 59.2°F 36.5°F 3.81 in 53.4°F 36.2°F 3.90 in
February 61.4°F 39.0°F 3.30 in 55.6°F 38.3°F 3.41 in
March 67.1°F 44.7°F 3.49 in 62.2°F 44.2°F 3.75 in
April 74.8°F 53.5°F 3.59 in 71.8°F 52.7°F 3.54 in
May 82.2°F 63.2°F 3.33 in 78.5°F 61.9°F 3.97 in
June 87.9°F 69.9°F 5.36 in 85.6°F 69.9°F 5.12 in
July 91.1°F 73.0°F 5.97 in 88.9°F 73.8°F 5.24 in
August 90.0°F 72.0°F 6.72 in 87.0°F 72.7°F 5.92 in
September 85.9°F 67.7°F 5.47 in 81.9°F 68.0°F 5.90 in
October 78.3°F 57.5°F 3.94 in 73.4°F 57.0°F 4.01 in
November 69.2°F 47.0°F 3.00 in 63.8°F 47.5°F 3.12 in
December 62.1°F 39.8°F 3.62 in 56.3°F 39.8°F 3.68 in

Cities that consider Sullivan's Island their climate twin

These US cities have Sullivan's Island in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Sullivan's Island 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 →