Dansville, New York climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records

What is the weather like in Dansville each month?

July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 83°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 18°F. The most precipitation falls in July (3.47 in), the least in February (1.12 in).

NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for this station. Dansville's own co-op station Dansville station does: 36 inches of snow in a normal year (see the other stations below).

When is the best weather to visit Dansville?

Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in May, June, July, August and September. Of those, September has the fewest days with rain (13).

That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.

When is the last frost in Dansville?

In Dansville, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after May 1 in half of years and after May 18 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 19 in half of years and before October 4 in one year in ten.

Last spring frost, half of years after

May 11 year in 10 after May 18; 9 in 10 after April 20

First autumn frost, half of years before

October 191 year in 10 before October 4; 9 in 10 before November 4

NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 170 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 192 days.

A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 23 in half of springs and before November 2 in half of autumns.

The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Dansville in zone 6a in ZIP code 14437, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Dansville's NOAA station is in zone 6b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches −5°F (19 complete years); the map interpolates between stations and terrain, so the station and the ZIP area can differ by half a zone.

Frost dates for every NOAA station in New York · Frost dates by ZIP code

How hot and how cold does it get in Dansville?

In a normal year in Dansville, 14 days a year reach 90°F, 132 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 156 days bring measurable precipitation.

Days at 90°F or more

14a normal year

Days at 100°F or more

fewer than 1a normal year

Nights at 32°F or colder

132a normal year

Days that stay below freezing

39high of 32°F or less

Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation

156a normal year

The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1945) is 102°F, on July 21, 2011; the lowest is −12°F, on February 1, 1948.

The wettest calendar year on that record is 2006, with 37.22 in; the snowiest season is 1949–50, with 45.4 inches.

How sunny is Dansville?

Over a year 68% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Dansville, 3.6 kWh per square metre a day. August is the sunniest month (76%) and December the cloudiest (50%).

How much heating and cooling does Dansville need?

A normal year in Dansville brings 6,260 heating degree days, 17% more than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 642 cooling degree days, 29% fewer than the median (908). Seven months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 2,800 growing degree days a year above 50°F.

Has Dansville been warmer than normal lately?

2023 averaged 52.1°F, 2.6°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 49.5°F. 3 of the 3 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.

Over 35 complete years from 1987 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 9.1°F per century (+0.51°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.

Which places near Dansville share this climate record?

11 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.

• Wayland, NY1,694 people · 6 mi E
• Cohocton, NY713 people · 12 mi SE
• Canaseraga, NY454 people · 8 mi SW
• Springwater, NY418 people · 7 mi NE
• Dalton, NY348 people · 12 mi W
• Groveland Station, NY343 people · 7 mi NW
• Scottsburg, NY106 people · 6 mi N
• Cumminsville, NY98 people · 0 mi W
• Kysorville, NY80 people · 7 mi NW
• Woodsville, NY66 people · 1 mi NW
• Byersville, NY43 people · 4 mi W

What do Dansville's other NOAA stations record?

One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Dansville. This page uses Dansville Municipal Airport; the other differs by site and elevation:

Nearby and next

• New York climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
• Mount Morris, NY15 miles from this station, 47.7°F a year
• Hemlock, NY15 miles from this station, 48.2°F a year
• Hornell, NY16 miles from this station, 45.0°F a year
• Honeoye, NY18 miles from this station, 47.6°F a year
• Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side

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