Climate twins of Ashland, LA

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

Top match: Port Gibson, MS

Month Ashland Port Gibson
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 57.7°F 34.2°F 5.38 in 59.5°F 35.7°F 6.10 in
February 61.9°F 37.5°F 5.24 in 63.7°F 38.1°F 5.06 in
March 69.2°F 44.7°F 5.56 in 71.0°F 45.9°F 6.01 in
April 76.1°F 51.3°F 5.25 in 77.9°F 52.5°F 5.45 in
May 82.6°F 60.7°F 4.63 in 84.9°F 61.5°F 4.47 in
June 89.2°F 67.4°F 4.00 in 90.5°F 69.1°F 4.05 in
July 92.0°F 70.5°F 3.81 in 92.9°F 71.8°F 3.94 in
August 93.0°F 69.5°F 3.18 in 93.4°F 70.9°F 3.56 in
September 88.0°F 63.4°F 3.92 in 89.1°F 65.3°F 3.75 in
October 78.3°F 51.7°F 4.56 in 80.1°F 53.1°F 4.11 in
November 68.3°F 42.1°F 4.99 in 69.1°F 42.7°F 4.44 in
December 59.4°F 36.1°F 6.18 in 61.5°F 38.1°F 5.32 in

Cities that consider Ashland their climate twin

These US cities have Ashland in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Ashland 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 →