Climate twins of Boyne City, MI

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

Top match: Cape Vincent, NY

Month Boyne City Cape Vincent
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 28.4°F 14.1°F 2.65 in 29.8°F 10.0°F 2.86 in
February 31.5°F 13.4°F 1.67 in 31.4°F 10.7°F 2.18 in
March 42.4°F 20.6°F 1.89 in 40.0°F 20.7°F 2.37 in
April 55.8°F 31.5°F 3.06 in 53.7°F 32.5°F 3.07 in
May 70.2°F 43.1°F 3.19 in 66.2°F 43.7°F 2.97 in
June 79.7°F 53.3°F 3.16 in 74.5°F 53.1°F 3.09 in
July 83.5°F 58.1°F 2.86 in 79.2°F 58.8°F 3.01 in
August 81.7°F 57.0°F 3.46 in 78.2°F 56.7°F 3.20 in
September 73.8°F 50.4°F 3.85 in 71.2°F 48.8°F 3.56 in
October 59.3°F 39.9°F 4.44 in 58.4°F 39.2°F 4.22 in
November 44.6°F 30.3°F 3.31 in 46.6°F 29.5°F 3.40 in
December 33.4°F 21.5°F 2.68 in 35.5°F 19.0°F 3.14 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 →