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 →