Climate twins of Sister Bay, WI

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

Top match: Onaway, MI

Month Sister Bay Onaway
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 26.7°F 12.0°F 1.71 in 26.9°F 11.8°F 2.03 in
February 29.1°F 12.8°F 1.06 in 29.9°F 11.2°F 1.51 in
March 38.6°F 21.1°F 1.66 in 40.5°F 18.8°F 1.78 in
April 51.0°F 31.1°F 2.71 in 53.3°F 29.7°F 2.96 in
May 64.5°F 41.9°F 3.46 in 67.2°F 41.2°F 3.07 in
June 73.8°F 52.5°F 3.31 in 76.5°F 50.6°F 2.88 in
July 79.6°F 57.8°F 3.05 in 80.4°F 55.7°F 3.11 in
August 78.3°F 56.6°F 3.03 in 78.7°F 54.9°F 3.24 in
September 70.3°F 51.2°F 3.41 in 71.2°F 48.2°F 3.31 in
October 57.1°F 40.5°F 3.61 in 57.2°F 38.4°F 3.54 in
November 43.5°F 30.2°F 2.27 in 43.6°F 29.0°F 2.41 in
December 32.5°F 19.0°F 1.70 in 32.3°F 19.4°F 2.14 in

Cities that consider Sister Bay their climate twin

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