Climate twins of Newaygo, MI

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

Top match: Linden, MI

Month Newaygo Linden
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 29.6°F 15.7°F 2.45 in 29.8°F 15.2°F 2.37 in
February 31.8°F 16.2°F 1.86 in 32.5°F 15.4°F 1.87 in
March 42.0°F 23.3°F 2.41 in 42.3°F 23.7°F 2.03 in
April 54.8°F 33.4°F 3.76 in 55.3°F 34.1°F 3.21 in
May 66.7°F 44.4°F 3.88 in 67.7°F 45.6°F 3.83 in
June 76.2°F 54.3°F 3.59 in 76.8°F 55.4°F 3.34 in
July 79.7°F 57.8°F 3.27 in 80.5°F 58.7°F 3.51 in
August 77.9°F 56.4°F 3.40 in 78.7°F 57.5°F 3.31 in
September 71.4°F 50.0°F 3.36 in 72.4°F 49.9°F 3.08 in
October 58.7°F 39.1°F 3.90 in 59.4°F 39.5°F 3.30 in
November 44.9°F 29.7°F 3.09 in 46.6°F 30.4°F 2.53 in
December 34.4°F 21.5°F 2.49 in 34.4°F 21.3°F 2.10 in

Cities that consider Newaygo their climate twin

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