Climate twins of Port Austin, MI

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

Top match: Whitelaw, WI

Month Port Austin Whitelaw
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 29.0°F 16.8°F 1.82 in 26.5°F 13.4°F 1.78 in
February 30.2°F 15.2°F 1.63 in 29.4°F 15.8°F 1.24 in
March 38.2°F 23.0°F 1.85 in 38.5°F 24.6°F 1.75 in
April 50.8°F 32.9°F 3.33 in 50.0°F 34.4°F 3.29 in
May 63.5°F 44.3°F 3.09 in 61.5°F 44.2°F 3.44 in
June 73.0°F 54.4°F 3.41 in 71.6°F 54.3°F 4.05 in
July 78.1°F 59.8°F 3.29 in 76.9°F 60.3°F 3.50 in
August 76.7°F 58.7°F 3.43 in 75.7°F 60.3°F 3.44 in
September 70.5°F 51.5°F 3.11 in 68.6°F 53.1°F 2.42 in
October 58.1°F 42.2°F 3.02 in 56.0°F 42.0°F 2.91 in
November 45.3°F 32.3°F 2.39 in 43.0°F 30.4°F 1.98 in
December 34.7°F 23.3°F 2.07 in 31.8°F 19.8°F 1.65 in

Cities that consider Port Austin their climate twin

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