Climate twins of Bogalusa, LA

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

Top match: Scott, LA

Month Bogalusa Scott
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 61.3°F 38.7°F 6.14 in 61.5°F 41.2°F 6.09 in
February 65.8°F 42.4°F 4.64 in 65.7°F 44.7°F 4.45 in
March 72.1°F 48.3°F 5.14 in 71.9°F 51.1°F 3.76 in
April 78.9°F 54.8°F 4.38 in 78.4°F 57.1°F 5.50 in
May 85.4°F 63.2°F 4.51 in 85.0°F 65.1°F 4.87 in
June 90.5°F 70.1°F 7.76 in 90.0°F 71.5°F 7.02 in
July 92.4°F 72.1°F 6.35 in 91.0°F 73.1°F 6.32 in
August 92.0°F 71.9°F 5.83 in 91.6°F 72.9°F 6.54 in
September 88.8°F 67.7°F 4.72 in 87.8°F 68.5°F 5.21 in
October 81.0°F 56.7°F 5.33 in 80.7°F 58.5°F 5.00 in
November 70.8°F 45.9°F 4.15 in 70.8°F 48.5°F 4.75 in
December 63.9°F 40.9°F 4.93 in 63.8°F 43.0°F 5.23 in

Cities that consider Bogalusa their climate twin

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