Climate twins of Marquette, IA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Marquette'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: Marquette vs its climate twin
Top match: Maxwell, IA
| Month | Marquette | Maxwell | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 27.1°F | 9.7°F | 1.22 in | 26.9°F | 9.8°F | 0.95 in |
| February | 32.1°F | 13.3°F | 1.26 in | 31.4°F | 13.9°F | 1.20 in |
| March | 44.9°F | 24.9°F | 2.05 in | 45.0°F | 25.7°F | 2.01 in |
| April | 58.6°F | 36.6°F | 4.04 in | 59.2°F | 37.0°F | 3.48 in |
| May | 70.2°F | 48.2°F | 4.68 in | 70.4°F | 49.2°F | 4.81 in |
| June | 79.6°F | 58.9°F | 5.83 in | 79.8°F | 60.2°F | 5.78 in |
| July | 83.1°F | 63.1°F | 4.12 in | 83.0°F | 63.3°F | 4.32 in |
| August | 81.3°F | 61.0°F | 4.15 in | 81.0°F | 61.3°F | 4.22 in |
| September | 74.2°F | 52.0°F | 3.99 in | 75.0°F | 51.9°F | 3.37 in |
| October | 61.7°F | 40.1°F | 2.72 in | 62.0°F | 39.3°F | 2.74 in |
| November | 45.9°F | 28.2°F | 2.12 in | 45.7°F | 27.2°F | 2.04 in |
| December | 32.9°F | 17.1°F | 1.56 in | 32.2°F | 16.1°F | 1.54 in |
Cities that consider Marquette their climate twin
These US cities have Marquette in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Marquette would feel familiar.
- Clinton, WI (ranks Marquette #2)
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 →