Climate twins of Natchez, LA

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

Top match: Port Gibson, MS

Month Natchez Port Gibson
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 59.8°F 39.2°F 5.08 in 59.5°F 35.7°F 6.10 in
February 64.9°F 41.9°F 4.48 in 63.7°F 38.1°F 5.06 in
March 72.2°F 49.0°F 5.76 in 71.0°F 45.9°F 6.01 in
April 79.3°F 56.0°F 5.66 in 77.9°F 52.5°F 5.45 in
May 86.5°F 65.1°F 4.16 in 84.9°F 61.5°F 4.47 in
June 92.4°F 72.9°F 5.22 in 90.5°F 69.1°F 4.05 in
July 95.3°F 75.8°F 3.51 in 92.9°F 71.8°F 3.94 in
August 95.7°F 74.9°F 3.27 in 93.4°F 70.9°F 3.56 in
September 90.3°F 68.7°F 3.90 in 89.1°F 65.3°F 3.75 in
October 81.1°F 56.9°F 4.52 in 80.1°F 53.1°F 4.11 in
November 70.3°F 47.3°F 4.76 in 69.1°F 42.7°F 4.44 in
December 62.3°F 41.1°F 5.61 in 61.5°F 38.1°F 5.32 in

Cities that consider Natchez their climate twin

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