Climate twins of Amite City, LA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Amite City'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: Amite City vs its climate twin
Top match: Pollard, AL
| Month | Amite City | Pollard | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 61.1°F | 38.6°F | 5.93 in | 62.7°F | 39.0°F | 6.05 in |
| February | 64.8°F | 41.8°F | 5.02 in | 66.4°F | 41.7°F | 5.13 in |
| March | 72.3°F | 48.3°F | 5.22 in | 73.8°F | 47.1°F | 5.09 in |
| April | 78.2°F | 54.0°F | 5.09 in | 79.5°F | 53.0°F | 5.45 in |
| May | 85.2°F | 62.3°F | 6.36 in | 86.2°F | 62.2°F | 4.82 in |
| June | 89.8°F | 69.1°F | 5.88 in | 91.0°F | 69.6°F | 6.20 in |
| July | 90.9°F | 71.3°F | 6.46 in | 92.4°F | 72.4°F | 6.61 in |
| August | 91.6°F | 71.1°F | 6.60 in | 92.1°F | 72.1°F | 6.60 in |
| September | 89.0°F | 66.4°F | 3.62 in | 88.9°F | 66.9°F | 5.47 in |
| October | 80.5°F | 55.2°F | 4.34 in | 80.8°F | 55.4°F | 3.92 in |
| November | 70.3°F | 45.5°F | 3.83 in | 71.2°F | 44.3°F | 4.20 in |
| December | 62.8°F | 40.1°F | 5.45 in | 64.4°F | 40.9°F | 5.75 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 →