Climate twins of Waveland, MS

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

Top match: Pollard, AL

Month Waveland Pollard
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 59.4°F 41.6°F 5.83 in 62.7°F 39.0°F 6.05 in
February 63.1°F 44.4°F 4.67 in 66.4°F 41.7°F 5.13 in
March 68.6°F 51.1°F 5.31 in 73.8°F 47.1°F 5.09 in
April 74.8°F 57.6°F 5.57 in 79.5°F 53.0°F 5.45 in
May 81.7°F 66.1°F 5.75 in 86.2°F 62.2°F 4.82 in
June 86.8°F 72.3°F 6.45 in 91.0°F 69.6°F 6.20 in
July 88.5°F 74.3°F 7.72 in 92.4°F 72.4°F 6.61 in
August 89.0°F 74.0°F 5.90 in 92.1°F 72.1°F 6.60 in
September 85.7°F 70.0°F 5.72 in 88.9°F 66.9°F 5.47 in
October 78.0°F 59.4°F 3.53 in 80.8°F 55.4°F 3.92 in
November 68.2°F 48.8°F 4.14 in 71.2°F 44.3°F 4.20 in
December 61.3°F 43.2°F 4.40 in 64.4°F 40.9°F 5.75 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 →