Baraga, MI Climate: Temperature by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Baraga's primary NOAA station, BARAGA 7NW.
The climate verdict for Baraga
Baraga, Michigan has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 41°F. July is the warmest month at 67°F and January the coldest at 16°F.
- 41°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 121 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Baraga: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00200497 · Baraga, MI 41°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 41°F
- RANK-COOL #480
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Millinocket Was…
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 51°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 8,951 HDD
- STN-1 USC00200497
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Millinocket Wastewater, ME (+ 0 °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 MI station list.
- Baraga (this station) 41°F
- Cold Danforth, ME 41°F
- Hot Lodgepole, SD 41°F
- Near Millinocket Was…, ME 41°F
- Near Dunkirk, MT 41°F
Climate Living Index · Baraga
Baraga: 12/100 · grade F
Baraga publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Baraga, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 193 calendar days | 18/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 41.0°F · 26.5° from 67.5°F | 7/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 121 days/year | 7/100 · F |
Baraga · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Baraga sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Baraga are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 93%
- Among 6,861 stations, Baraga sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 83%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Baraga is large 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 | 24°F (-4°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | N/A | 30.6 | 0.0 |
| February | 27°F (-3°C) | 5°F (-15°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | N/A | 27.7 | 0.0 |
| March | 37°F (3°C) | 13°F (-10°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | N/A | 29.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 50°F (10°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 38°F (3°C) | N/A | 25.7 | 0.0 |
| May | 64°F (18°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 51°F (10°C) | N/A | 8.8 | 1.0 |
| June | 75°F (24°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 61°F (16°C) | N/A | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| July | 80°F (27°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 67°F (19°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 3.1 |
| August | 77°F (25°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 64°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 1.4 |
| September | 69°F (20°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 56°F (14°C) | N/A | 2.5 | 0.2 |
| October | 55°F (13°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | N/A | 14.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 40°F (5°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 32°F (0°C) | N/A | 24.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 29°F (-2°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | N/A | 30.2 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 80°F around July 19, short of 90°F on every date, while 193 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 5°F near February 10.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 1, then returns to freezing around October 22, covering 193 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
June 10 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 28°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Baraga.
Where Baraga Stands Nationally
Freezing is routine here by normals standards — the normal low reaches 32°F or colder on about 193 nights a year, more than most ranked stations.
Baraga earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 23
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 25
50% probability date
Growing Season
121 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,951
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
243
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MI closest to Baraga 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 (41°F here).
- Butte, ND 41°F · 0.0°F off
- Garrison, ND 41°F · 0.0°F off
- Hazelton, ND 41°F · 0.0°F off
- Isle, MN 41°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Baraga's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Baraga's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,951 annual heating degree days against 243 for cooling. Its 50.9°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 121 days are frost-free in a normal year. That short interval is consistent with the cold-season signal, but the measure does not predict the exact first or last freeze in any one year.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Baraga's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 50.9°F. The annual average is 41°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Baraga'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 Baraga'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 Baraga, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Baraga'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 Baraga's primary station: BARAGA 7NW (USC00200497). 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 2605320). Match rule for Baraga: 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 Baraga 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.