Climate twins of Marine City, MI

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

Top match: Perrinton, MI

Month Marine City Perrinton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 33.0°F 16.3°F 2.42 in 30.6°F 17.7°F 2.07 in
February 35.3°F 15.9°F 2.06 in 33.0°F 18.6°F 1.80 in
March 44.5°F 23.8°F 2.16 in 43.7°F 26.1°F 1.93 in
April 58.0°F 33.8°F 3.24 in 56.9°F 36.4°F 3.58 in
May 69.8°F 45.3°F 3.61 in 69.3°F 48.2°F 3.83 in
June 80.1°F 53.7°F 3.36 in 78.9°F 58.7°F 3.35 in
July 85.0°F 60.1°F 3.40 in 83.2°F 62.3°F 3.20 in
August 82.8°F 58.5°F 3.24 in 81.3°F 60.7°F 3.46 in
September 76.0°F 51.4°F 3.30 in 74.8°F 53.1°F 2.87 in
October 63.4°F 41.2°F 2.84 in 61.7°F 42.6°F 3.25 in
November 48.6°F 30.8°F 2.74 in 47.3°F 32.8°F 2.84 in
December 37.9°F 23.2°F 2.25 in 36.0°F 24.1°F 1.82 in

Cities that consider Marine City their climate twin

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