Climate twins of Surgoinsville, TN

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

Top match: Perryville, KY

Month Surgoinsville Perryville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 45.3°F 25.5°F 4.56 in 42.7°F 23.3°F 3.68 in
February 50.2°F 28.7°F 4.17 in 47.1°F 25.8°F 3.69 in
March 59.1°F 34.9°F 4.53 in 56.3°F 33.3°F 4.61 in
April 68.6°F 44.1°F 4.54 in 67.5°F 43.6°F 4.21 in
May 76.2°F 53.4°F 4.15 in 75.4°F 54.1°F 4.42 in
June 82.6°F 60.9°F 4.40 in 83.4°F 61.4°F 4.66 in
July 85.5°F 64.9°F 4.94 in 86.5°F 65.3°F 5.00 in
August 84.9°F 63.5°F 3.22 in 86.0°F 63.7°F 3.18 in
September 80.4°F 57.5°F 3.29 in 80.2°F 56.8°F 3.72 in
October 70.1°F 45.2°F 2.73 in 68.6°F 44.8°F 3.47 in
November 58.2°F 34.9°F 3.38 in 55.8°F 34.0°F 3.01 in
December 48.2°F 28.8°F 4.93 in 46.1°F 28.0°F 4.20 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 →