Climate twins of Benton, LA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Benton'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: Benton vs its climate twin
Top match: Leland, MS
| Month | Benton | Leland | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 55.2°F | 34.2°F | 4.80 in | 52.6°F | 34.3°F | 5.55 in |
| February | 59.5°F | 38.4°F | 4.85 in | 57.3°F | 37.6°F | 5.59 in |
| March | 67.7°F | 44.7°F | 5.24 in | 65.9°F | 44.9°F | 5.41 in |
| April | 75.1°F | 52.8°F | 5.18 in | 75.4°F | 53.8°F | 6.05 in |
| May | 82.0°F | 62.1°F | 4.63 in | 83.7°F | 63.4°F | 4.84 in |
| June | 88.7°F | 70.2°F | 4.39 in | 89.8°F | 70.4°F | 4.07 in |
| July | 92.4°F | 73.4°F | 3.81 in | 92.1°F | 72.7°F | 4.01 in |
| August | 93.0°F | 71.7°F | 3.12 in | 92.5°F | 70.9°F | 3.12 in |
| September | 87.5°F | 64.7°F | 3.67 in | 88.2°F | 64.6°F | 3.51 in |
| October | 76.9°F | 52.9°F | 4.73 in | 77.7°F | 53.3°F | 4.18 in |
| November | 64.9°F | 43.8°F | 4.34 in | 65.1°F | 43.3°F | 4.49 in |
| December | 57.2°F | 36.2°F | 5.25 in | 55.4°F | 37.1°F | 5.25 in |
Cities that consider Benton their climate twin
These US cities have Benton in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Benton would feel familiar.
- Winchester, AR (ranks Benton #1)
- Dumas, AR (ranks Benton #1)
- Gould, AR (ranks Benton #1)
- Mitchellville, AR (ranks Benton #1)
- Grady, AR (ranks Benton #2)
- Watson, AR (ranks Benton #2)
- Almyra, AR (ranks Benton #1)
- Ulm, AR (ranks Benton #1)
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 →