Climate twins of Yale, MI

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Yale'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.

Rank 1 closest
Harrison, MI
similarity distance: 0.829 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Onaway, MI
similarity distance: 0.845 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Millersburg, MI
similarity distance: 0.845 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Yale vs its climate twin

Top match: Harrison, MI

Month Yale Harrison
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 28.9°F 12.7°F 1.86 in 29.2°F 12.7°F 2.15 in
February 32.4°F 12.1°F 1.62 in 32.0°F 12.5°F 1.70 in
March 41.5°F 21.2°F 1.86 in 42.6°F 20.4°F 2.05 in
April 54.8°F 30.9°F 3.04 in 55.5°F 31.0°F 3.53 in
May 65.8°F 41.7°F 3.31 in 68.4°F 42.7°F 3.78 in
June 77.6°F 51.9°F 3.29 in 78.1°F 52.8°F 3.46 in
July 81.5°F 56.3°F 3.06 in 82.0°F 57.1°F 3.20 in
August 79.7°F 54.2°F 2.97 in 79.9°F 55.2°F 3.39 in
September 73.4°F 47.2°F 3.08 in 72.7°F 47.4°F 2.79 in
October 59.9°F 37.4°F 2.81 in 59.5°F 37.0°F 3.24 in
November 46.0°F 27.7°F 2.40 in 45.6°F 28.3°F 2.53 in
December 35.0°F 19.9°F 2.03 in 34.3°F 19.9°F 2.20 in

Cities that consider Yale their climate twin

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