Climate twins of Tchula, MS

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

Top match: Lisbon, LA

Month Tchula Lisbon
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 54.4°F 31.0°F 5.36 in 55.6°F 32.0°F 5.15 in
February 57.8°F 33.6°F 5.83 in 59.7°F 35.3°F 5.26 in
March 66.2°F 41.6°F 5.78 in 67.5°F 41.7°F 5.68 in
April 73.5°F 49.1°F 6.35 in 75.2°F 49.2°F 5.89 in
May 81.0°F 58.7°F 4.65 in 81.9°F 58.8°F 4.74 in
June 87.0°F 65.0°F 3.27 in 88.6°F 66.4°F 4.04 in
July 89.8°F 68.8°F 4.74 in 91.7°F 69.9°F 4.02 in
August 89.6°F 67.6°F 2.66 in 92.0°F 69.0°F 3.28 in
September 85.9°F 61.2°F 3.77 in 86.9°F 62.4°F 3.73 in
October 76.4°F 49.4°F 4.11 in 76.6°F 50.2°F 4.64 in
November 64.7°F 38.9°F 4.09 in 65.3°F 40.3°F 4.64 in
December 56.0°F 33.1°F 5.94 in 57.5°F 34.1°F 5.92 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 →