Climate twins of Reed City, MI
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Reed City'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: Reed City vs its climate twin
Top match: Richmondville, NY
| Month | Reed City | Richmondville | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 28.2°F | 12.7°F | 2.43 in | 30.5°F | 11.6°F | 2.45 in |
| February | 31.4°F | 12.2°F | 1.97 in | 32.7°F | 12.9°F | 2.15 in |
| March | 42.0°F | 19.8°F | 2.57 in | 40.9°F | 20.5°F | 3.08 in |
| April | 54.8°F | 30.9°F | 3.95 in | 54.5°F | 32.5°F | 3.36 in |
| May | 67.6°F | 43.2°F | 3.76 in | 66.6°F | 44.2°F | 3.66 in |
| June | 77.2°F | 53.0°F | 3.36 in | 75.0°F | 53.6°F | 4.24 in |
| July | 81.3°F | 57.1°F | 3.48 in | 79.5°F | 58.3°F | 4.15 in |
| August | 79.0°F | 55.0°F | 4.24 in | 77.9°F | 56.5°F | 4.26 in |
| September | 71.6°F | 46.9°F | 3.02 in | 71.2°F | 48.6°F | 3.59 in |
| October | 58.1°F | 36.3°F | 3.76 in | 58.5°F | 38.1°F | 3.93 in |
| November | 44.1°F | 27.5°F | 3.05 in | 46.4°F | 28.5°F | 2.75 in |
| December | 33.2°F | 19.3°F | 2.33 in | 35.8°F | 19.5°F | 3.07 in |
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 →