Climate twins of Tarpon Springs, FL

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

Top match: Homeland, GA

Month Tarpon Springs Homeland
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 69.3°F 50.7°F 3.03 in 66.6°F 43.7°F 3.83 in
February 72.0°F 53.8°F 2.51 in 70.2°F 46.5°F 3.37 in
March 76.0°F 57.6°F 3.08 in 76.3°F 50.9°F 3.73 in
April 81.1°F 63.2°F 2.69 in 82.7°F 56.7°F 3.50 in
May 86.2°F 69.1°F 2.35 in 88.4°F 63.8°F 3.28 in
June 89.7°F 74.4°F 7.06 in 92.6°F 70.4°F 6.96 in
July 90.6°F 75.6°F 9.05 in 94.4°F 72.7°F 7.07 in
August 90.8°F 75.7°F 9.66 in 93.2°F 72.9°F 7.76 in
September 88.9°F 73.6°F 7.03 in 89.5°F 69.7°F 5.59 in
October 83.8°F 67.3°F 3.19 in 82.6°F 61.1°F 3.41 in
November 76.3°F 58.6°F 1.90 in 74.7°F 51.7°F 1.89 in
December 71.4°F 53.5°F 2.74 in 68.4°F 46.3°F 2.77 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 →