Climate twins of Barton Hills, MI

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

Top match: Beaver Falls, PA

Month Barton Hills Beaver Falls
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 31.9°F 16.2°F 2.96 in 35.9°F 19.2°F 3.14 in
February 35.4°F 17.7°F 2.51 in 39.0°F 19.1°F 2.40 in
March 46.2°F 25.2°F 2.82 in 48.3°F 26.8°F 3.07 in
April 59.7°F 35.5°F 3.44 in 61.6°F 36.6°F 3.65 in
May 71.4°F 46.6°F 3.84 in 71.5°F 47.8°F 3.84 in
June 80.1°F 55.9°F 3.91 in 78.9°F 56.4°F 4.26 in
July 83.7°F 60.1°F 3.52 in 83.1°F 61.1°F 3.82 in
August 81.7°F 58.8°F 3.52 in 82.2°F 59.5°F 3.50 in
September 75.1°F 51.6°F 3.18 in 75.6°F 52.9°F 3.62 in
October 62.2°F 40.7°F 2.99 in 63.8°F 41.8°F 3.06 in
November 48.0°F 30.5°F 2.82 in 51.0°F 31.5°F 2.95 in
December 36.3°F 22.1°F 2.75 in 40.3°F 24.5°F 3.01 in

Cities that consider Barton Hills their climate twin

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