Climate twins of Columbiaville, MI
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Columbiaville'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: Columbiaville vs its climate twin
Top match: Sturgis, MI
| Month | Columbiaville | Sturgis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 31.2°F | 15.7°F | 2.81 in | 30.9°F | 16.5°F | 2.70 in |
| February | 34.7°F | 15.9°F | 2.28 in | 34.4°F | 18.3°F | 1.91 in |
| March | 44.7°F | 25.2°F | 2.54 in | 45.4°F | 27.1°F | 2.52 in |
| April | 57.3°F | 34.9°F | 3.28 in | 59.0°F | 38.0°F | 3.64 in |
| May | 69.2°F | 46.3°F | 3.71 in | 70.1°F | 49.3°F | 4.27 in |
| June | 78.0°F | 56.5°F | 3.21 in | 79.5°F | 58.4°F | 4.06 in |
| July | 81.9°F | 61.1°F | 3.37 in | 82.9°F | 61.6°F | 3.39 in |
| August | 79.7°F | 59.4°F | 4.57 in | 80.8°F | 60.3°F | 4.21 in |
| September | 73.9°F | 51.2°F | 2.56 in | 75.1°F | 52.8°F | 3.14 in |
| October | 61.4°F | 40.4°F | 2.99 in | 61.8°F | 42.5°F | 3.36 in |
| November | 48.1°F | 32.0°F | 2.56 in | 47.9°F | 31.1°F | 3.04 in |
| December | 35.9°F | 22.5°F | 2.26 in | 36.1°F | 22.7°F | 2.27 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 →