Charlotte, MI Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Charlotte's primary NOAA station, CHARLOTTE.
The climate verdict for Charlotte
Charlotte, Michigan has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 47°F. Its climate comfort score of 59/100 (moderate) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 37% of station-mapped location scores.
- 47°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 59/100
- comfort score, above 37% of station-mapped location scores
- 35.8"
- annual precipitation · 38" snow
- 167 days
- frost-free growing season
Charlotte: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00201476 · Charlotte, MI 47°F mean · 35.8" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 47°F
- RANK-COOL #1,921
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Harrisburg
- PRCP-MID 35.8"
- SWING-WIDE 48°F
- COMF-MID 59/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,941 HDD
- STN-1 USC00201476
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Harrisburg, NE (+ 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 MI station list.
- Charlotte (this station) 47°F
- Hot Casper Wwtp, WY 47°F
- Near Harrisburg, NE 47°F
- Near Massabesic Lake, NH 47°F
- Near Lapeer Wwtp, MI 47°F
Climate Living Index · Charlotte
Charlotte: 46/100 · grade D
Charlotte publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Charlotte, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 59/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 35.8 in · 0.8 from 35 in | 94/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 153 calendar days | 44/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 167 days/year | 39/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 38.1 inches/year | 30/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 47.3°F · 20.2° from 67.5°F | 29/100 · F |
Charlotte · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Charlotte is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 22.4°F and warmest-month mean 70.6°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
- 70.6°F
- Coldest month
- 22.4°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 Charlotte sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Charlotte's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 72%
- Among 6,861 stations, Charlotte sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 49th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 74%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Charlotte is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Charlotte compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Charlotte's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
59 37th percentile score exceeds 37% 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
Charlotte's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 69 complete annual observations from 1906 to 2018, CHARLOTTE warmed at a fitted rate of 0.05°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Charlotte primary station fitted change +0.05 °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 | 30°F (-1°C) | 15°F (-9°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 2.3" | 14.9" | 29.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 33°F (0°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 1.7" | 4.4" | 26.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 43°F (6°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 2.3" | 5.8" | 24.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 57°F (14°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 3.4" | 1.0" | 12.9 | 0.0 |
| May | 68°F (20°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 4.0" | 0.0" | 1.1 | 0.2 |
| June | 78°F (25°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| July | 82°F (28°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 71°F (21°C) | 3.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.6 |
| August | 79°F (26°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 3.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| September | 73°F (23°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 3.2" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| October | 60°F (16°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 3.5" | 0.3" | 7.1 | 0.0 |
| November | 46°F (8°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 2.7" | 2.1" | 19.5 | 0.0 |
| December | 35°F (2°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 2.2" | 9.6" | 27.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 82°F around July 10, short of 90°F on every date, while 153 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 14°F near January 25.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 9, then returns to freezing around November 9, covering 153 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 10, when 48% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 7 at 32%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 146 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 17 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 Charlotte.
Where Charlotte Stands Nationally
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 23°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Charlotte 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: 14.9"
15.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.4"
11.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.8"
10.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.0"
13.6 days with precipitation
13.5 days with precipitation
10.6 days with precipitation
9.7 days with precipitation
10.5 days with precipitation
10.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
13.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.1"
12.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 9.6"
13.6 days with precipitation
Charlotte 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 17%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Charlotte has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 48.2°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 4.0" and February 1.7". The three wettest months together take 32% 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 Charlotte's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 145 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 35.8" between them, or roughly 0.25 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 Charlotte
Charlotte averages 38.1 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 29 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: 38.1 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 29 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 11% 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 15
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 1
50% probability date
Growing Season
167 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,941
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
536
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MI closest to Charlotte 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).
- Alton, UT 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Atkinson, NE 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Emmetsburg, IA 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Gregory, SD 47°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (35.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Albert Lea, MN 35.8" · 0.0" off
- Emporia, KS 35.8" · 0.0" off
- Dakota City, IA 35.8" · 0.1" off
- Dripping Springs, TX 35.7" · 0.1" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Charlotte
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Charlotte's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,941 annual heating degree days against 536 for cooling. Its 48.2°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Charlotte's frost-free season lasts about 167 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. Charlotte coldest normal
January
Averaging 22°F (-5°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Charlotte typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Charlotte snow peak
January
Charlotte averages 38.1 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 Charlotte's primary station: CHARLOTTE (USC00201476). 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 2614820). Match rule for Charlotte: 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 Charlotte 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.