Climate twins of Thomaston, GA

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

Top match: Troy, SC

Month Thomaston Troy
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 57.9°F 33.4°F 4.41 in 55.5°F 32.9°F 4.16 in
February 61.0°F 36.0°F 4.54 in 58.7°F 33.7°F 3.96 in
March 68.8°F 41.5°F 4.99 in 66.6°F 40.4°F 4.49 in
April 76.5°F 49.2°F 4.03 in 75.4°F 48.3°F 3.23 in
May 83.1°F 58.4°F 2.87 in 82.7°F 57.2°F 3.23 in
June 88.1°F 66.2°F 4.33 in 89.0°F 66.4°F 4.62 in
July 90.9°F 69.3°F 5.40 in 92.3°F 69.6°F 4.49 in
August 90.4°F 68.6°F 4.15 in 91.2°F 69.0°F 4.45 in
September 85.7°F 63.4°F 3.91 in 85.8°F 62.8°F 3.63 in
October 78.1°F 52.0°F 2.90 in 76.1°F 50.8°F 3.11 in
November 68.3°F 41.3°F 3.99 in 64.5°F 39.9°F 3.62 in
December 59.6°F 35.6°F 4.94 in 57.0°F 34.9°F 4.30 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 →