Climate twins of Tallahassee, FL

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

Top match: Moss Point, MS

Month Tallahassee Moss Point
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 63.9°F 40.5°F 4.41 in 62.5°F 40.9°F 4.97 in
February 67.8°F 43.5°F 4.28 in 66.4°F 44.6°F 4.01 in
March 74.2°F 48.6°F 5.24 in 72.2°F 50.1°F 4.73 in
April 80.2°F 54.4°F 3.53 in 77.6°F 55.7°F 4.40 in
May 87.4°F 63.0°F 3.36 in 84.3°F 63.0°F 4.95 in
June 90.8°F 70.8°F 7.76 in 89.6°F 71.1°F 6.91 in
July 92.1°F 73.0°F 7.14 in 90.9°F 73.4°F 6.65 in
August 91.5°F 73.2°F 7.60 in 90.7°F 73.2°F 7.89 in
September 88.6°F 69.6°F 4.91 in 88.0°F 69.0°F 4.84 in
October 81.7°F 58.8°F 3.24 in 80.7°F 57.7°F 3.69 in
November 72.5°F 48.0°F 3.10 in 71.4°F 46.9°F 3.79 in
December 65.9°F 42.9°F 4.24 in 64.8°F 43.2°F 4.90 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 →