Climate twins of Franklin, LA

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

Top match: Moss Point, MS

Month Franklin Moss Point
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 62.7°F 43.7°F 5.63 in 62.5°F 40.9°F 4.97 in
February 66.7°F 47.5°F 4.00 in 66.4°F 44.6°F 4.01 in
March 72.4°F 52.8°F 4.02 in 72.2°F 50.1°F 4.73 in
April 77.9°F 59.0°F 4.67 in 77.6°F 55.7°F 4.40 in
May 83.9°F 66.8°F 4.68 in 84.3°F 63.0°F 4.95 in
June 88.4°F 72.4°F 7.63 in 89.6°F 71.1°F 6.91 in
July 89.8°F 74.2°F 8.01 in 90.9°F 73.4°F 6.65 in
August 90.2°F 73.9°F 7.62 in 90.7°F 73.2°F 7.89 in
September 87.3°F 70.0°F 5.59 in 88.0°F 69.0°F 4.84 in
October 80.4°F 60.2°F 4.26 in 80.7°F 57.7°F 3.69 in
November 71.5°F 50.1°F 4.22 in 71.4°F 46.9°F 3.79 in
December 65.0°F 45.5°F 4.94 in 64.8°F 43.2°F 4.90 in

Cities that consider Franklin their climate twin

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