Climate twins of Homer, LA

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

Top match: Rosedale, MS

Month Homer Rosedale
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 55.6°F 32.0°F 5.15 in 50.9°F 33.8°F 4.66 in
February 59.7°F 35.3°F 5.26 in 55.3°F 37.4°F 4.92 in
March 67.5°F 41.7°F 5.68 in 63.7°F 44.7°F 5.28 in
April 75.2°F 49.2°F 5.89 in 72.7°F 53.0°F 5.94 in
May 81.9°F 58.8°F 4.74 in 80.9°F 62.6°F 5.03 in
June 88.6°F 66.4°F 4.04 in 87.8°F 69.9°F 3.82 in
July 91.7°F 69.9°F 4.02 in 90.2°F 72.5°F 3.40 in
August 92.0°F 69.0°F 3.28 in 90.1°F 70.7°F 3.27 in
September 86.9°F 62.4°F 3.73 in 85.5°F 64.2°F 3.09 in
October 76.6°F 50.2°F 4.64 in 75.1°F 52.7°F 4.44 in
November 65.3°F 40.3°F 4.64 in 62.9°F 43.1°F 4.83 in
December 57.5°F 34.1°F 5.92 in 53.8°F 36.6°F 5.96 in

Cities that consider Homer their climate twin

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