Climate twins of Wrightsville Beach, NC

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

Top match: Pascagoula, MS

Month Wrightsville Beach Pascagoula
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 56.2°F 36.1°F 3.95 in 60.4°F 37.5°F 5.49 in
February 59.0°F 38.1°F 3.55 in 63.5°F 40.8°F 4.36 in
March 65.6°F 43.7°F 3.93 in 68.5°F 47.1°F 5.08 in
April 73.9°F 51.5°F 3.70 in 74.3°F 53.1°F 5.23 in
May 80.5°F 61.8°F 4.50 in 81.4°F 62.0°F 5.91 in
June 86.8°F 69.4°F 5.35 in 86.2°F 69.2°F 7.18 in
July 90.1°F 73.6°F 8.79 in 88.3°F 71.0°F 8.10 in
August 88.6°F 71.9°F 8.49 in 88.8°F 70.6°F 8.61 in
September 84.5°F 66.9°F 9.19 in 85.7°F 66.9°F 6.82 in
October 75.7°F 55.6°F 5.53 in 79.1°F 55.5°F 4.48 in
November 66.4°F 44.1°F 3.97 in 69.1°F 44.3°F 4.07 in
December 59.7°F 38.5°F 4.14 in 62.2°F 39.9°F 5.10 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 →