Climate twins of Port Lavaca, TX

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

Top match: Trinity, TX

Month Port Lavaca Trinity
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 64.0°F 45.7°F 3.11 in 61.0°F 41.2°F 3.64 in
February 67.7°F 49.4°F 1.84 in 64.9°F 44.9°F 2.87 in
March 72.6°F 56.5°F 3.20 in 72.1°F 51.3°F 3.36 in
April 78.3°F 62.9°F 2.61 in 78.8°F 57.5°F 3.23 in
May 84.0°F 70.7°F 4.25 in 86.0°F 66.2°F 4.03 in
June 89.4°F 76.4°F 4.85 in 91.7°F 72.8°F 4.57 in
July 91.2°F 78.4°F 3.15 in 94.2°F 74.6°F 2.75 in
August 92.4°F 78.2°F 3.42 in 95.2°F 74.4°F 3.24 in
September 88.7°F 73.1°F 4.82 in 89.7°F 68.7°F 3.22 in
October 82.7°F 64.5°F 3.65 in 80.7°F 58.8°F 4.36 in
November 73.7°F 55.0°F 3.57 in 69.9°F 49.2°F 4.25 in
December 66.7°F 48.0°F 2.92 in 62.3°F 42.7°F 4.13 in

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 →