Climate twins of Byram, MS

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

Top match: Gary City, TX

Month Byram Gary City
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 57.4°F 37.5°F 5.09 in 56.8°F 36.1°F 4.66 in
February 62.0°F 40.8°F 4.36 in 61.4°F 39.5°F 4.23 in
March 69.7°F 47.8°F 4.83 in 68.8°F 46.3°F 4.92 in
April 76.6°F 54.6°F 5.28 in 76.0°F 53.5°F 4.72 in
May 83.9°F 63.3°F 3.94 in 82.8°F 62.8°F 4.35 in
June 90.0°F 70.6°F 3.92 in 89.3°F 70.3°F 4.04 in
July 92.1°F 73.0°F 4.65 in 92.4°F 73.2°F 3.64 in
August 92.4°F 72.6°F 3.44 in 93.1°F 72.5°F 3.44 in
September 87.7°F 67.6°F 3.34 in 87.4°F 66.0°F 3.67 in
October 78.5°F 55.6°F 3.57 in 78.0°F 54.5°F 4.54 in
November 67.2°F 44.5°F 4.20 in 66.6°F 44.5°F 4.44 in
December 59.5°F 39.5°F 4.71 in 58.9°F 38.2°F 5.63 in

Cities that consider Byram their climate twin

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