Climate twins of Jean Lafitte, LA

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

Top match: Satsuma, AL

Month Jean Lafitte Satsuma
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 61.9°F 43.0°F 5.32 in 61.5°F 40.7°F 5.66 in
February 65.8°F 47.0°F 4.24 in 65.6°F 44.4°F 4.47 in
March 72.2°F 52.6°F 5.22 in 71.8°F 50.0°F 5.44 in
April 77.5°F 58.4°F 5.25 in 77.8°F 56.0°F 5.71 in
May 84.1°F 65.7°F 5.48 in 84.9°F 63.8°F 5.39 in
June 88.5°F 71.7°F 7.18 in 89.4°F 70.8°F 6.55 in
July 89.9°F 73.8°F 7.53 in 90.9°F 73.1°F 7.69 in
August 89.7°F 73.6°F 6.87 in 90.8°F 72.9°F 6.87 in
September 86.5°F 70.2°F 6.34 in 87.5°F 68.8°F 5.30 in
October 79.0°F 60.5°F 3.79 in 79.7°F 58.2°F 3.95 in
November 70.0°F 50.8°F 3.80 in 70.2°F 47.7°F 4.60 in
December 63.8°F 45.5°F 5.09 in 63.5°F 43.0°F 5.45 in

Cities that consider Jean Lafitte their climate twin

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