Climate twins of DeWitt, MI

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

Top match: Marine City, MI

Month DeWitt Marine City
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 30.6°F 17.2°F 2.06 in 33.0°F 16.3°F 2.42 in
February 33.5°F 18.3°F 1.71 in 35.3°F 15.9°F 2.06 in
March 44.4°F 26.0°F 2.13 in 44.5°F 23.8°F 2.16 in
April 57.6°F 36.4°F 3.26 in 58.0°F 33.8°F 3.24 in
May 69.4°F 47.5°F 3.66 in 69.8°F 45.3°F 3.61 in
June 78.9°F 57.1°F 3.76 in 80.1°F 53.7°F 3.36 in
July 82.8°F 60.9°F 2.94 in 85.0°F 60.1°F 3.40 in
August 80.6°F 59.5°F 3.48 in 82.8°F 58.5°F 3.24 in
September 73.6°F 51.5°F 2.81 in 76.0°F 51.4°F 3.30 in
October 60.5°F 41.2°F 3.16 in 63.4°F 41.2°F 2.84 in
November 47.0°F 31.9°F 2.46 in 48.6°F 30.8°F 2.74 in
December 35.7°F 23.3°F 1.90 in 37.9°F 23.2°F 2.25 in

Cities that consider DeWitt their climate twin

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