Climate twins of Delta, LA

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

Top match: Columbus, MS

Month Delta Columbus
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 57.2°F 37.9°F 5.44 in 55.8°F 35.8°F 5.45 in
February 61.9°F 41.7°F 5.11 in 61.2°F 39.2°F 5.69 in
March 69.6°F 48.7°F 5.02 in 69.7°F 46.3°F 5.32 in
April 76.9°F 55.5°F 5.96 in 77.6°F 53.3°F 5.81 in
May 84.3°F 63.5°F 3.85 in 84.9°F 61.5°F 4.02 in
June 90.2°F 70.6°F 3.74 in 90.9°F 69.4°F 4.40 in
July 92.6°F 73.1°F 4.05 in 93.8°F 72.7°F 4.68 in
August 92.8°F 72.0°F 3.75 in 93.4°F 71.9°F 4.50 in
September 88.4°F 66.1°F 3.00 in 88.4°F 65.6°F 3.20 in
October 79.1°F 54.0°F 4.13 in 78.3°F 54.0°F 3.63 in
November 67.8°F 44.0°F 3.92 in 66.5°F 42.7°F 4.35 in
December 59.6°F 39.7°F 5.38 in 58.1°F 38.1°F 5.59 in

Cities that consider Delta their climate twin

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