Canton, Ohio climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Canton's center at January lows of 20°F and July highs of 83°F, a yearly mean of 50.7°F and 41.1 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Akron (8 miles NW, 1,208 ft), has January lows of 20°F and July highs of 84°F.
69,211 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 35° 20°
- Feb 38° 21°
- Mar 48° 29°
- Apr 61° 38°
- May 72° 48°
- Jun 80° 58°
- Jul 83° 62°
- Aug 82° 60°
- Sep 75° 53°
- Oct 63° 42°
- Nov 50° 33°
- Dec 39° 25°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
The months above are NOAA's gridded normals at Canton's center.
What is each month like in Canton?
NOAA's grid estimates the normals every 5 km or so from the stations around each point, terrain included. It smooths between stations, so night lows at the heart of a large city can run warmer than the grid shows: at five big-city airports we compared, the grid's highs were within about 1°F of the station and its lows 1-6°F cooler. The nearest record's high and low are beside each month.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Akron high | Akron low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35°F | 20°F | 27.3°F | 2.84 | 36°F | 20°F |
| February | 38°F | 21°F | 29.7°F | 2.35 | 39°F | 22°F |
| March | 48°F | 29°F | 38.3°F | 3.17 | 48°F | 29°F |
| April | 61°F | 38°F | 49.8°F | 3.67 | 62°F | 40°F |
| May | 72°F | 48°F | 60.0°F | 3.95 | 72°F | 50°F |
| June | 80°F | 58°F | 68.7°F | 4.76 | 80°F | 59°F |
| July | 83°F | 62°F | 72.6°F | 4.37 | 84°F | 63°F |
| August | 82°F | 60°F | 70.9°F | 3.63 | 83°F | 62°F |
| September | 75°F | 53°F | 64.2°F | 3.39 | 76°F | 55°F |
| October | 63°F | 42°F | 52.7°F | 3.20 | 63°F | 44°F |
| November | 50°F | 33°F | 41.5°F | 2.84 | 51°F | 34°F |
| December | 39°F | 25°F | 32.4°F | 2.89 | 40°F | 26°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 10.4°C, January lows of −7°C, July highs of 29°C and 1,043 mm of precipitation a year.
Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Monthly Gridded Climate Normals 1991-2020 (nClimGrid, accession 0245564); NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 station normals. The grid cell holding the city's Census center point.
What do the station records around Canton say?
Each row is a NOAA station's own 1991-2020 normals, with the snow and frost dates the grid does not give. A record downhill or nearer the coast than the city can run warmer, one uphill cooler: compare the elevations.
| Record | Where | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AkronAkron Canton Airport | 8 mi NW | 1,208 ft | 51.6°F | 20°F | 84°F | 41.6 | 47 | April 24 |
| Akron Fulton International Airport | 17 mi N | 1,044 ft | 52.3°F | 21°F | 85°F | 32.5 | – | April 24 |
| Stow4 mi SE | 23 mi N | 1,060 ft | 49.2°F | 18°F | 82°F | 41.6 | – | April 30 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals; place center and population: Census Bureau 2024. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
How much snow, how late a frost, what zone and how much sun in Canton?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Akron (8 miles NW, 1,208 ft). It gets 47 inches of snow in a normal year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 24 in half of years and the first autumn frost before October 26. Its record high is 104°F (1918) and its record low −25°F (1994), on the National Weather Service's long record for the area (kept since 1887).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Canton in zone 6b across its 10 ZIP code areas.
Over a year 70% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (3.8 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); August is the sunniest month (79%) and December the cloudiest (53%).
Akron's page has its months, frost probabilities, records by month and recent years. NOAA's grid has monthly figures only, so there are no day-by-day month pages for Canton; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USW00014895; records: ACIS; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; sunshine: NASA POWER.
How does the climate vary across Canton, ZIP code by ZIP code?
10 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Canton. On NOAA's grid 44702 is the warmest (50.7°F a year) and 44714 the coolest (50.6°F), so the city is nearly uniform. Each row also names the nearest station record and its frost dates.
| ZIP code | Zone | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Nearest record | Last frost | First frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44702 | 6b | 50.7°F | 20°F | 83°F | 41.1 | Akron (9 mi) | April 24 | October 26 |
| 44703 | 6b | 50.7°F | 20°F | 83°F | 40.9 | Akron (8 mi) | April 24 | October 26 |
| 44704 | 6b | 50.7°F | 20°F | 83°F | 41.1 | Akron (9 mi) | April 24 | October 26 |
| 44705 | 6b | 50.6°F | 20°F | 83°F | 41.1 | Akron (8 mi) | April 24 | October 26 |
| 44706 | 6b | 50.7°F | 20°F | 83°F | 41.1 | Akron (11 mi) | April 24 | October 26 |
| 44707 | 6b | 50.7°F | 20°F | 83°F | 41.5 | Akron (12 mi) | April 24 | October 26 |
| 44708 | 6b | 50.7°F | 20°F | 83°F | 40.8 | Akron (7 mi) | April 24 | October 26 |
| 44709 | 6b | 50.7°F | 20°F | 83°F | 40.8 | Akron (6 mi) | April 24 | October 26 |
| 44710 | 6b | 50.7°F | 20°F | 83°F | 41.1 | Akron (9 mi) | April 24 | October 26 |
| 44714 | 6b | 50.6°F | 20°F | 83°F | 40.9 | Akron (7 mi) | April 24 | October 26 |
Source: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file and ZCTA centers; NOAA NCEI gridded and station normals, 1991-2020. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) is in the city; its figures are the grid cell at its center; frost dates are the nearest record's medians of 32°F.