Climate twins of Rogers City, MI

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

Top match: Sister Bay, WI

Month Rogers City Sister Bay
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 27.9°F 14.2°F 2.17 in 26.7°F 12.0°F 1.71 in
February 29.9°F 13.2°F 1.53 in 29.1°F 12.8°F 1.06 in
March 38.3°F 19.8°F 1.65 in 38.6°F 21.1°F 1.66 in
April 50.4°F 30.4°F 2.61 in 51.0°F 31.1°F 2.71 in
May 64.4°F 41.1°F 2.89 in 64.5°F 41.9°F 3.46 in
June 74.5°F 51.9°F 3.44 in 73.8°F 52.5°F 3.31 in
July 79.7°F 57.9°F 3.07 in 79.6°F 57.8°F 3.05 in
August 78.6°F 57.1°F 3.41 in 78.3°F 56.6°F 3.03 in
September 71.0°F 49.7°F 3.05 in 70.3°F 51.2°F 3.41 in
October 56.8°F 39.4°F 3.27 in 57.1°F 40.5°F 3.61 in
November 44.1°F 30.1°F 2.33 in 43.5°F 30.2°F 2.27 in
December 33.5°F 21.0°F 2.31 in 32.5°F 19.0°F 1.70 in

Cities that consider Rogers City their climate twin

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