Clarksburg, MI Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Clarksburg's primary NOAA station, CLARKSBURG.
The climate verdict for Clarksburg
Clarksburg, Michigan has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 38°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.
- 38°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 30.1"
- annual precipitation · 118" snow
- 97 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Clarksburg: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00201435 · Clarksburg, MI 38°F mean · 30.1" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 38°F
- RANK-COOL #206
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Fontenelle Dam
- PRCP-MID 30.1"
- SWING-WIDE 52°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 9,812 HDD
- STN-1 USC00201435
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Fontenelle Dam, WY ( -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.
- Hot Stambaugh, MI 39°F
- Clarksburg (this station) 38°F
- Cold Fontenelle Dam, WY 38°F
- Near Floodwood, MN 38°F
- Near Van Buren, ME 38°F
Climate Living Index · Clarksburg
Clarksburg: 17/100 · grade F
Clarksburg publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Clarksburg, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 30.1 in · 4.9 from 35 in | 83/100 · B |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 210 calendar days | 9/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 38.3°F · 29.2° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 97 days/year | 0/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 117.8 inches/year | 0/100 · F |
Clarksburg · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Clarksburg is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 11.8°F and warmest-month mean 63.6°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
- 63.6°F
- Coldest month
- 11.8°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 Clarksburg sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Clarksburg's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 97%
- Among 6,861 stations, Clarksburg sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 40th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 85%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Clarksburg is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Clarksburg compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Clarksburg'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 | 22°F (-6°C) | 2°F (-17°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 1.6" | 25.1" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 25°F (-4°C) | 0°F (-18°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 1.3" | 23.9" | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 37°F (3°C) | 8°F (-14°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 1.3" | 14.5" | 30.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 49°F (10°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 2.5" | 14.7" | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| May | 64°F (18°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 2.9" | 0.8" | 15.5 | 0.5 |
| June | 74°F (23°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 3.3" | 0.0" | 2.9 | 0.6 |
| July | 78°F (26°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 3.9" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 2.9 |
| August | 76°F (25°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 2.7" | 0.0" | 0.6 | 1.1 |
| September | 68°F (20°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 3.2" | 0.0" | 6.3 | 0.1 |
| October | 53°F (12°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 3.5" | 2.7" | 18.6 | 0.0 |
| November | 38°F (3°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 2.3" | 15.0" | 27.2 | 0.0 |
| December | 27°F (-3°C) | 9°F (-13°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 1.6" | 21.1" | 30.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 79°F around July 18, short of 90°F on every date, while 210 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 0°F near February 13.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 9, then returns to freezing around October 13, covering 210 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 7, when 54% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is March 22 at 35%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 166 wet dates a year.
The widest day
March 9 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 30°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Clarksburg.
Where Clarksburg Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 210 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Clarksburg 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: 25.1"
16.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 23.9"
12.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 14.5"
10.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 14.7"
11.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.8"
14.9 days with precipitation
13.1 days with precipitation
12.1 days with precipitation
12.1 days with precipitation
13.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.7"
16.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 15.0"
15.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 21.1"
16.5 days with precipitation
Clarksburg spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 33% of the annual total and December through February 15%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Clarksburg has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 51.8°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: July averages 3.9" and February 1.3". The three wettest months together take 36% 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.
Rain reaches Clarksburg in small, frequent amounts
Clarksburg records about 165 days with measurable precipitation a year and 30.1" in total, which works out to roughly 0.18 inches on an average wet day. Precipitation on 45% of all days, arriving that lightly, is the damp many-grey-days pattern rather than the storm-driven one.
Places in this band read as wetter than their annual totals suggest, because what people notice is the number of overcast days, not the depth in the gauge.
- Most wet days: January, about 17 of them.
- Fewest: March, about 10.
- Average depth per wet day: 0.18 inches.
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 Clarksburg
Clarksburg averages 117.8 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 79 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: 117.8 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 79 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 39% 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
September 10
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 5
50% probability date
Growing Season
97 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
9,812
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
141
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MI closest to Clarksburg 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 (38°F here).
- Fortuna, ND 38°F · 0.0°F off
- Mohall, ND 38°F · 0.0°F off
- Northome, MN 38°F · 0.1°F off
- Powers Lake, ND 38°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (30.1" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Danbury, WI 30.1" · 0.0" off
- Mead, NE 30.1" · 0.0" off
- Weatherford, OK 30.1" · 0.0" off
- Lake Wilson, MN 30.1" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Clarksburg
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Clarksburg's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 9,812 annual heating degree days against 141 for cooling. Its 51.8°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 97 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. Clarksburg coldest normal
January
Averaging 12°F (-11°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Clarksburg typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Clarksburg snow peak
January
Clarksburg averages 117.8 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 Clarksburg's primary station: CLARKSBURG (USC00201435). 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 Clarksburg; 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 Clarksburg 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.