Climate twins of Mount Clemens, MI

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

Top match: Shortsville, NY

Month Mount Clemens Shortsville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 31.6°F 17.9°F 2.22 in 33.0°F 17.8°F 1.92 in
February 34.2°F 18.5°F 1.75 in 34.6°F 18.4°F 1.77 in
March 43.5°F 25.9°F 2.45 in 42.2°F 24.9°F 2.65 in
April 56.3°F 35.9°F 3.36 in 55.2°F 35.3°F 3.21 in
May 68.1°F 46.7°F 3.59 in 68.2°F 46.8°F 3.13 in
June 78.1°F 57.0°F 3.31 in 76.9°F 56.9°F 3.58 in
July 82.2°F 61.9°F 3.82 in 81.4°F 62.0°F 4.06 in
August 79.9°F 60.7°F 3.68 in 80.2°F 60.6°F 3.31 in
September 73.0°F 53.1°F 3.17 in 73.5°F 53.8°F 3.12 in
October 60.5°F 42.5°F 2.82 in 60.8°F 43.0°F 3.46 in
November 47.5°F 32.4°F 2.60 in 48.7°F 33.4°F 2.59 in
December 36.5°F 24.1°F 2.19 in 38.1°F 24.6°F 2.39 in

Cities that consider Mount Clemens their climate twin

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