Chalk Hill, PA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Chalk Hill's primary NOAA station, CHALK HILL 2 ENE.
The climate verdict for Chalk Hill
Water is the standout signal in Chalk Hill, Pennsylvania: 55.7 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 47°F. At 44/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 10% of scores.
- 47°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 55.7"
- annual precipitation · 89" snow
- 135 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Chalk Hill: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00361350 · Chalk Hill, PA 47°F mean · 55.7" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 47°F
- RANK-COOL #1,852
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Potlatch
- PRCP-WET 55.7"
- SWING-MID 42°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,822 HDD
- STN-1 USC00361350
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Potlatch, ID (+ 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 PA station list.
- Chalk Hill (this station) 47°F
- Cold Wallowa, OR 47°F
- Hot Cumbre Vista -…, CO 47°F
- Near Potlatch, ID 47°F
- Near Lund, NV 47°F
Climate Living Index · Chalk Hill
Chalk Hill: 25/100 · grade F
Chalk Hill publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Chalk Hill, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 164 calendar days | 36/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 46.9°F · 20.6° from 67.5°F | 27/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 55.7 in · 20.7 from 35 in | 26/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 135 days/year | 15/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 88.8 inches/year | 3/100 · F |
Chalk Hill · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Chalk Hill is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 24.9°F and warmest-month mean 67.1°F place this station in continental, no dry season, warm summer climates (Dfb). Class Dfb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 67.1°F
- Coldest month
- 24.9°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 Chalk Hill sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Chalk Hill's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 73%
- Among 6,861 stations, Chalk Hill sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 10% wettest
- Chalk Hill's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 45th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Chalk Hill compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Chalk Hill's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
44 10th percentile score exceeds 10% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Above this entry.
- 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34°F (1°C) | 15°F (-9°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 4.6" | 26.9" | 27.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 38°F (3°C) | 17°F (-9°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 4.1" | 18.0" | 24.6 | 0.0 |
| March | 48°F (9°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 5.0" | 15.5" | 21.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 61°F (16°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 4.7" | 3.7" | 11.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 69°F (21°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 5.2" | 0.0" | 2.4 | 0.0 |
| June | 75°F (24°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 5.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| July | 79°F (26°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 4.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| August | 77°F (25°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| September | 71°F (22°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 4.7" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| October | 61°F (16°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 3.8" | 0.9" | 7.6 | 0.0 |
| November | 49°F (10°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 4.1" | 6.2" | 17.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 39°F (4°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 4.5" | 17.6" | 25.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 79°F around July 8, short of 90°F on every date, while 164 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 15°F near January 24.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 11, then returns to freezing around October 31, covering 164 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 January 8, when 65% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 31 at 34%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 177 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 24 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 Chalk Hill.
Where Chalk Hill Stands Nationally
The normal water year runs well above the national norm at roughly 56 inches.
Chalk Hill 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 and snowfall
Snow: 26.9"
20.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 18.0"
16.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 15.5"
16.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.7"
15.7 days with precipitation
15.0 days with precipitation
13.8 days with precipitation
12.4 days with precipitation
11.4 days with precipitation
11.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.9"
12.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.2"
13.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 17.6"
18.0 days with precipitation
Chalk Hill spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 27% of the annual total and December through February 24%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Chalk Hill has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 42.2°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: June averages 5.7" and October 3.8". 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.
How Chalk Hill's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 177 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 55.7" between them, or roughly 0.32 inches on a typical wet day. That sits in the middle band: neither the many-light-days pattern of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes, nor the few-heavy-events pattern of the Gulf and the desert Southwest.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year and say nothing about the heaviest single storm on record.
Winter brings real snow to Chalk Hill
Chalk Hill averages 88.8 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 52 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: 88.8 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 52 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 16% 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 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 19
50% probability date
Growing Season
135 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,822
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
253
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside PA closest to Chalk Hill 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 (47°F here).
- Bath, NY 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Battle Creek, IA 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Bayard, WV 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Bellevue, ID 47°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (55.7" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Ardmore, TN 55.7" · 0.0" off
- Cuthbert, GA 55.7" · 0.0" off
- Hope, AR 55.7" · 0.0" off
- Goodlettsville, TN 55.6" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Chalk Hill
heating led · wet · mid swing
Chalk Hill's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,822 annual heating degree days against 253 for cooling. Its 42.2°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 135 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.
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1. Chalk Hill coldest normal
January
Averaging 25°F (-4°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Chalk Hill typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Chalk Hill snow peak
January
Chalk Hill averages 88.8 inches of snow a year, with January 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 Chalk Hill's primary station: CHALK HILL 2 ENE (USC00361350). 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 Chalk Hill; 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 Chalk Hill 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.