Climate twins of Escanaba, MI

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

Top match: Lincoln, MI

Month Escanaba Lincoln
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 25.6°F 8.1°F 1.18 in 26.0°F 13.5°F 1.38 in
February 27.8°F 8.2°F 1.03 in 27.7°F 13.2°F 1.12 in
March 36.7°F 17.9°F 1.64 in 35.4°F 21.2°F 1.63 in
April 47.3°F 29.4°F 2.34 in 45.5°F 31.0°F 3.06 in
May 60.3°F 40.6°F 3.32 in 56.9°F 41.9°F 3.23 in
June 70.5°F 50.9°F 3.45 in 67.3°F 51.9°F 3.13 in
July 76.6°F 56.4°F 2.90 in 73.5°F 57.7°F 3.38 in
August 75.6°F 55.2°F 2.99 in 73.7°F 57.5°F 3.18 in
September 67.6°F 48.9°F 3.21 in 66.7°F 50.4°F 2.80 in
October 54.5°F 36.5°F 3.06 in 54.2°F 39.4°F 2.68 in
November 42.2°F 27.4°F 2.35 in 41.7°F 29.6°F 1.89 in
December 31.1°F 16.4°F 1.37 in 31.8°F 20.5°F 1.66 in

Cities that consider Escanaba their climate twin

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