Canoe Brook, NJ Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Canoe Brook's primary NOAA station, CANOE BROOK.
The climate verdict for Canoe Brook
Water is the standout signal in Canoe Brook, New Jersey: 50.4 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 53°F. At 53/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 53°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 53/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 50.4"
- annual precipitation · 24" snow
- 192 days
- frost-free growing season
Canoe Brook: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00281335 · Canoe Brook, NJ 53°F mean · 50.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 53°F
- RANK-MID #3,705
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Denver Water De…
- PRCP-WET 50.4"
- SWING-WIDE 45°F
- COMF-LOW 53/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,262 HDD
- STN-1 USC00281335
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Denver Water Dept, CO (+ 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 NJ station list.
- Canoe Brook (this station) 53°F
- Cold Shippensburg, PA 53°F
- Hot Denver Water De…, CO 53°F
- Near Lancaster, OH 53°F
- Near Farmington, NM 53°F
Climate Living Index · Canoe Brook
Canoe Brook: 56/100 · grade C
Canoe Brook publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Canoe Brook, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 53/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 116 calendar days | 67/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 192 days/year | 59/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 53.3°F · 14.2° from 67.5°F | 54/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 50.4 in · 15.4 from 35 in | 46/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 24.0 inches/year | 45/100 · D |
Canoe Brook · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Canoe Brook is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 30.7°F and warmest-month mean 76.0°F place this station in continental, no dry season, hot summer climates (Dfa). Class Dfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 76.0°F
- Coldest month
- 30.7°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · heating-led station
Where Canoe Brook sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Canoe Brook's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 54th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 19% wettest
- Canoe Brook's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 60th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Canoe Brook compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Canoe Brook's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
53 31st percentile score exceeds 31% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores
- 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). This entry sits in this band.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Above this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Canoe Brook's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 68 complete annual observations from 1931 to 2025, CANOE BROOK warmed at a fitted rate of 0.25°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Canoe Brook primary station fitted change +0.25 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 40°F (4°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 3.5" | 5.8" | 26.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 42°F (5°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 3.0" | 8.4" | 24.1 | 0.0 |
| March | 50°F (10°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 4.2" | 4.6" | 19.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 62°F (17°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 4.0" | 0.4" | 5.6 | 0.3 |
| May | 72°F (22°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 4.0" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 1.9 |
| June | 82°F (28°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 4.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 5.7 |
| July | 86°F (30°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 4.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 10.6 |
| August | 85°F (29°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 4.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 8.0 |
| September | 78°F (26°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 4.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.2 |
| October | 66°F (19°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 4.6" | 0.0" | 3.0 | 0.1 |
| November | 54°F (12°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 3.6" | 0.7" | 14.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 44°F (7°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 4.4" | 4.1" | 23.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 87°F around July 12, short of 90°F on every date, while 116 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 21°F near January 24.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 21, then returns to freezing around November 27, covering 116 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.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is May 4, when 40% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is February 12 at 29%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 123 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 25 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 23°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Canoe Brook.
Where Canoe Brook Stands Nationally
The normal water year runs well above the national norm at roughly 50 inches.
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 23°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Canoe Brook earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 5.8"
9.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.4"
8.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.6"
9.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
11.5 days with precipitation
12.3 days with precipitation
11.0 days with precipitation
11.1 days with precipitation
10.8 days with precipitation
9.5 days with precipitation
10.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.7"
8.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.1"
9.8 days with precipitation
Canoe Brook spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 29% of the annual total and December through February 22%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Canoe Brook has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 45.3°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: August averages 4.9" and February 3.0". The three wettest months together take 29% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
When it rains in Canoe Brook, it arrives in quantity
50.4" of precipitation falls across only about 123 wet days here, averaging 0.41 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 123 a year, 34% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.41 inches
- Most wet days
- May, about 12
- Fewest wet days
- February, about 8
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Winter brings real snow to Canoe Brook
Canoe Brook averages 24.0 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 9 days that record measurable snow. That is depth accumulating on the ground, which is why it can exceed the annual precipitation figure: precipitation counts the liquid the snow melts down to, and fresh snow is mostly air.
- Annual snowfall: 24.0 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 9 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 5% of the year's precipitation.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. The ten-to-one ratio is a convention, not a measurement: real ratios vary with temperature, so treat the share as an order of magnitude rather than an exact split.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 27
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 18
50% probability date
Growing Season
192 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,262
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,023
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NJ closest to Canoe Brook 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 (53°F here).
- Bowling Green, MO 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Corona, NM 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Holly, CO 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Lancaster, PA 53°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (50.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Shelby, NC 50.4" · 0.0" off
- Henderson, TX 50.4" · 0.0" off
- Waycross, GA 50.4" · 0.0" off
- Carmel, NY 50.4" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Canoe Brook
heating led · wet · mid swing
Canoe Brook's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,262 annual heating degree days against 1,023 for cooling. Its 45.3°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Canoe Brook's frost-free season lasts about 192 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Canoe Brook coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 31°F (-1°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Canoe Brook typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Canoe Brook snow peak
February
Canoe Brook averages 24.0 inches of snow a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals.
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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 Canoe Brook's primary station: CANOE BROOK (USC00281335). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Canoe Brook; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Canoe Brook 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.