Climate twins of Lake Arthur, LA

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

Top match: Liverpool, TX

Month Lake Arthur Liverpool
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 61.4°F 43.5°F 5.61 in 63.3°F 43.5°F 4.87 in
February 65.6°F 46.7°F 4.20 in 66.7°F 47.7°F 2.98 in
March 71.6°F 53.3°F 3.10 in 72.5°F 54.0°F 3.08 in
April 77.6°F 59.6°F 4.75 in 77.6°F 59.8°F 4.23 in
May 83.5°F 68.0°F 4.61 in 84.7°F 67.5°F 4.64 in
June 89.9°F 73.4°F 6.17 in 89.0°F 72.3°F 5.98 in
July 91.4°F 74.9°F 4.99 in 90.9°F 74.0°F 4.20 in
August 92.0°F 74.2°F 6.08 in 91.1°F 74.0°F 5.60 in
September 88.8°F 69.8°F 5.85 in 88.5°F 70.4°F 5.37 in
October 81.0°F 60.5°F 4.51 in 81.4°F 60.6°F 5.34 in
November 71.2°F 50.7°F 5.25 in 72.5°F 51.5°F 4.31 in
December 63.4°F 44.9°F 4.78 in 64.7°F 45.2°F 4.47 in

Cities that consider Lake Arthur their climate twin

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