Climate twins of Walterboro, SC

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

Top match: Lumber City, GA

Month Walterboro Lumber City
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 58.1°F 35.2°F 4.01 in 60.3°F 37.9°F 4.15 in
February 62.0°F 37.6°F 3.74 in 64.1°F 40.7°F 4.21 in
March 68.7°F 44.2°F 3.50 in 70.9°F 46.7°F 4.41 in
April 76.1°F 50.4°F 3.56 in 77.8°F 53.2°F 3.65 in
May 82.8°F 59.6°F 3.59 in 85.1°F 61.5°F 3.30 in
June 87.4°F 67.6°F 5.63 in 89.7°F 68.8°F 5.28 in
July 90.5°F 71.1°F 5.21 in 92.4°F 71.7°F 4.50 in
August 88.9°F 70.1°F 7.17 in 91.4°F 71.0°F 6.87 in
September 84.2°F 65.0°F 4.60 in 86.6°F 66.0°F 4.47 in
October 76.4°F 53.1°F 3.68 in 78.7°F 55.2°F 2.95 in
November 67.7°F 42.3°F 3.08 in 69.8°F 45.2°F 2.98 in
December 61.1°F 37.9°F 3.65 in 62.5°F 40.3°F 4.09 in

Cities that consider Walterboro their climate twin

These US cities have Walterboro in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Walterboro would feel familiar.

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 →