Ashland, OH Climate: Temperature by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Ashland's primary NOAA station, ASHLAND 2 SW.
The climate verdict for Ashland
Ashland, Ohio has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 50°F. July is the warmest month at 72°F and January the coldest at 26°F.
- 50°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 168 days
- frost-free growing season
Ashland: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00330256 · Ashland, OH 50°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 50°F
- RANK-COOL #2,607
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Yoder
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 47°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 6,227 HDD
- STN-1 USC00330256
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Yoder, WY (+ 0.1 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every OH station list.
- Ashland (this station) 50°F
- Hot Omak, WA 50°F
- Near Yoder, WY 50°F
- Near Maynard, MA 50°F
- Near S Bend, IN 50°F
Climate Living Index · Ashland
Ashland: 45/100 · grade D
Ashland publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Ashland, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 141 calendar days | 52/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 168 days/year | 40/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 49.7°F · 17.8° from 67.5°F | 39/100 · F |
Ashland · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Ashland sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Ashland are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- 38th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 67th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34°F (1°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | N/A | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 37°F (3°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | N/A | 24.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 47°F (8°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 37°F (3°C) | N/A | 23.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 60°F (16°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 49°F (9°C) | N/A | 11.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 71°F (22°C) | 47°F (9°C) | 59°F (15°C) | N/A | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| June | 80°F (27°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 69°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 3.3 |
| July | 83°F (29°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 72°F (22°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 4.8 |
| August | 82°F (28°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 70°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 3.8 |
| September | 76°F (25°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 64°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.7 | 0.9 |
| October | 63°F (17°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 52°F (11°C) | N/A | 7.1 | 0.0 |
| November | 50°F (10°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 41°F (5°C) | N/A | 18.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 39°F (4°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 31°F (0°C) | N/A | 26.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 84°F around July 8, short of 90°F on every date, while 141 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 16°F near January 23.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 1, then returns to freezing around November 13, covering 141 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
The widest day
September 12 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 26°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Ashland.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 15
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 30
50% probability date
Growing Season
168 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,227
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
698
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside OH closest to Ashland on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (50°F here).
- Baring, WA 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Benton Harbor, MI 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Big Springs, NE 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Fairfield, IA 50°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Ashland's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Ashland's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,227 annual heating degree days against 698 for cooling. Its 46.8°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Ashland's frost-free season lasts about 168 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Ashland's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 46.8°F. The annual average is 50°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Ashland's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Ashland's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Ashland, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Ashland's climate
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Ashland's primary station: ASHLAND 2 SW (USC00330256). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as an incorporated place (GEOID 3902568). Match rule for Ashland: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Ashland comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.