Climate twins of Cement City, MI

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

Top match: Burlington, WI

Month Cement City Burlington
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 31.7°F 13.3°F 2.38 in 27.7°F 11.5°F 1.82 in
February 35.3°F 13.7°F 1.95 in 31.4°F 14.0°F 1.76 in
March 45.1°F 23.6°F 2.43 in 42.7°F 23.4°F 2.08 in
April 58.4°F 33.1°F 3.18 in 55.7°F 33.7°F 3.59 in
May 69.9°F 44.9°F 4.02 in 67.1°F 44.4°F 3.96 in
June 79.5°F 54.4°F 3.82 in 76.9°F 54.7°F 4.51 in
July 83.5°F 57.9°F 3.35 in 81.0°F 59.3°F 3.59 in
August 81.6°F 56.9°F 3.29 in 79.5°F 57.7°F 3.55 in
September 75.6°F 49.5°F 3.09 in 72.9°F 49.5°F 3.46 in
October 62.3°F 37.7°F 2.75 in 60.0°F 38.6°F 2.75 in
November 48.0°F 27.6°F 2.76 in 45.2°F 27.6°F 2.38 in
December 36.4°F 19.8°F 2.23 in 32.9°F 17.9°F 1.88 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 →