Climate twins of Woodland, MS

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

Top match: Athens, AL

Month Woodland Athens
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 52.6°F 32.3°F 5.12 in 51.3°F 33.5°F 5.52 in
February 57.5°F 35.1°F 5.80 in 55.9°F 36.7°F 5.43 in
March 66.4°F 42.8°F 5.14 in 64.5°F 43.5°F 5.59 in
April 74.0°F 49.9°F 6.08 in 73.3°F 51.3°F 5.40 in
May 81.6°F 59.1°F 5.67 in 80.4°F 60.4°F 4.85 in
June 88.2°F 67.2°F 5.59 in 87.1°F 68.4°F 4.76 in
July 90.2°F 70.3°F 4.13 in 89.9°F 72.1°F 4.89 in
August 90.6°F 68.6°F 4.66 in 89.8°F 70.9°F 3.93 in
September 86.1°F 62.3°F 3.49 in 84.9°F 64.5°F 3.77 in
October 76.1°F 50.0°F 3.36 in 74.7°F 52.6°F 4.02 in
November 64.2°F 40.2°F 4.50 in 63.0°F 41.9°F 4.61 in
December 55.4°F 34.9°F 5.80 in 54.2°F 36.5°F 6.29 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 →