Climate twins of Port Gibson, MS

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

Top match: Simpson, LA

Month Port Gibson Simpson
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 59.5°F 35.7°F 6.10 in 60.1°F 37.8°F 5.34 in
February 63.7°F 38.1°F 5.06 in 63.7°F 41.1°F 4.70 in
March 71.0°F 45.9°F 6.01 in 71.4°F 47.9°F 5.73 in
April 77.9°F 52.5°F 5.45 in 78.2°F 54.5°F 5.70 in
May 84.9°F 61.5°F 4.47 in 85.1°F 62.9°F 4.76 in
June 90.5°F 69.1°F 4.05 in 90.6°F 69.2°F 4.57 in
July 92.9°F 71.8°F 3.94 in 93.2°F 71.6°F 3.94 in
August 93.4°F 70.9°F 3.56 in 93.8°F 70.9°F 3.36 in
September 89.1°F 65.3°F 3.75 in 89.0°F 65.7°F 4.17 in
October 80.1°F 53.1°F 4.11 in 79.8°F 54.8°F 4.97 in
November 69.1°F 42.7°F 4.44 in 69.1°F 44.9°F 4.61 in
December 61.5°F 38.1°F 5.32 in 60.7°F 39.6°F 5.49 in

Cities that consider Port Gibson their climate twin

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