Climate twins of Munising, MI

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

Top match: De Tour Village, MI

Month Munising De Tour Village
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 25.9°F 12.7°F 1.96 in 23.9°F 8.7°F 1.93 in
February 27.7°F 11.8°F 1.42 in 25.6°F 8.7°F 1.31 in
March 35.7°F 20.2°F 1.45 in 34.1°F 17.0°F 1.75 in
April 45.7°F 29.2°F 2.28 in 45.9°F 29.9°F 2.44 in
May 59.4°F 38.9°F 2.77 in 59.3°F 41.5°F 2.62 in
June 68.3°F 48.3°F 2.75 in 69.9°F 51.6°F 3.06 in
July 74.7°F 54.9°F 3.09 in 75.0°F 57.6°F 3.07 in
August 74.3°F 54.7°F 2.74 in 74.0°F 58.0°F 3.35 in
September 67.4°F 49.1°F 3.85 in 66.1°F 51.3°F 3.61 in
October 54.8°F 38.8°F 4.09 in 52.9°F 39.7°F 3.83 in
November 42.0°F 28.7°F 3.12 in 40.9°F 29.6°F 2.58 in
December 31.7°F 19.2°F 2.18 in 30.9°F 18.8°F 2.32 in

Cities that consider Munising their climate twin

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