Climate twins of Lecompte, LA

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

Top match: Garrison, TX

Month Lecompte Garrison
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 59.5°F 39.3°F 5.97 in 58.5°F 35.7°F 5.18 in
February 63.8°F 42.7°F 4.98 in 62.6°F 39.0°F 4.81 in
March 70.6°F 48.5°F 4.47 in 70.0°F 45.7°F 5.26 in
April 77.3°F 55.5°F 4.82 in 77.0°F 52.5°F 4.96 in
May 84.5°F 64.7°F 4.88 in 84.1°F 61.8°F 4.46 in
June 90.1°F 71.0°F 6.01 in 90.5°F 69.1°F 4.96 in
July 92.5°F 72.9°F 4.13 in 93.8°F 72.2°F 3.65 in
August 93.0°F 72.5°F 3.62 in 94.5°F 71.3°F 4.18 in
September 89.0°F 66.4°F 4.75 in 89.1°F 64.9°F 3.57 in
October 80.2°F 55.1°F 5.46 in 79.5°F 53.4°F 4.95 in
November 69.5°F 45.9°F 5.59 in 68.2°F 43.3°F 4.89 in
December 61.7°F 40.4°F 5.37 in 60.2°F 37.2°F 5.62 in

Cities that consider Lecompte their climate twin

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