Climate twins of Lake City, MI
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Lake 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: Lake City vs its climate twin
Top match: Peshtigo, WI
| Month | Lake City | Peshtigo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 27.3°F | 9.9°F | 1.88 in | 25.5°F | 9.2°F | 1.57 in |
| February | 30.3°F | 9.6°F | 1.45 in | 29.1°F | 10.0°F | 1.17 in |
| March | 40.5°F | 17.3°F | 1.88 in | 38.8°F | 19.2°F | 1.85 in |
| April | 53.2°F | 29.4°F | 3.53 in | 51.5°F | 30.2°F | 3.02 in |
| May | 66.3°F | 40.9°F | 3.47 in | 65.1°F | 42.9°F | 3.66 in |
| June | 76.2°F | 50.7°F | 3.48 in | 75.2°F | 52.6°F | 3.84 in |
| July | 80.4°F | 54.5°F | 3.11 in | 80.1°F | 56.9°F | 3.64 in |
| August | 78.6°F | 52.8°F | 3.42 in | 78.2°F | 55.1°F | 3.52 in |
| September | 71.1°F | 44.7°F | 3.04 in | 70.5°F | 48.1°F | 3.46 in |
| October | 57.3°F | 35.0°F | 3.67 in | 57.1°F | 36.8°F | 3.39 in |
| November | 43.4°F | 26.2°F | 2.52 in | 43.0°F | 26.9°F | 2.33 in |
| December | 32.6°F | 17.5°F | 1.94 in | 30.9°F | 16.3°F | 1.92 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 →