Climate twins of Rose City, MI

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

Top match: Sturgeon Bay, WI

Month Rose City Sturgeon Bay
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 27.0°F 10.0°F 1.83 in 25.2°F 10.4°F 1.71 in
February 30.9°F 8.9°F 1.58 in 28.1°F 11.9°F 1.34 in
March 41.0°F 17.2°F 1.94 in 37.9°F 21.3°F 1.90 in
April 54.4°F 29.0°F 3.11 in 50.1°F 32.0°F 3.07 in
May 67.5°F 40.2°F 3.49 in 62.4°F 42.5°F 3.32 in
June 76.9°F 49.5°F 3.80 in 72.6°F 52.9°F 4.12 in
July 81.0°F 53.8°F 3.52 in 78.0°F 58.8°F 3.57 in
August 79.1°F 52.3°F 3.33 in 76.8°F 58.2°F 3.32 in
September 72.1°F 44.6°F 2.90 in 69.1°F 50.7°F 3.10 in
October 57.7°F 35.0°F 3.28 in 55.9°F 39.4°F 3.24 in
November 43.8°F 26.4°F 2.49 in 42.4°F 28.9°F 2.20 in
December 32.5°F 17.7°F 2.14 in 31.1°F 18.5°F 1.97 in

Cities that consider Rose City their climate twin

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