Climate twins of New Houlka, MS

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

Top match: Athens, AL

Month New Houlka Athens
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 51.4°F 31.4°F 4.88 in 51.3°F 33.5°F 5.52 in
February 55.6°F 34.9°F 5.56 in 55.9°F 36.7°F 5.43 in
March 64.4°F 41.9°F 5.49 in 64.5°F 43.5°F 5.59 in
April 72.6°F 50.1°F 6.09 in 73.3°F 51.3°F 5.40 in
May 80.1°F 59.5°F 5.54 in 80.4°F 60.4°F 4.85 in
June 86.7°F 67.1°F 4.86 in 87.1°F 68.4°F 4.76 in
July 89.5°F 70.1°F 4.89 in 89.9°F 72.1°F 4.89 in
August 89.5°F 68.9°F 5.02 in 89.8°F 70.9°F 3.93 in
September 84.6°F 62.6°F 3.67 in 84.9°F 64.5°F 3.77 in
October 74.4°F 50.7°F 4.20 in 74.7°F 52.6°F 4.02 in
November 62.6°F 41.2°F 4.34 in 63.0°F 41.9°F 4.61 in
December 54.2°F 34.4°F 6.29 in 54.2°F 36.5°F 6.29 in

Cities that consider New Houlka their climate twin

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