Downsville Dam, NY Climate: Temperature 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 Downsville Dam's primary NOAA station, DOWNSVILLE DAM.
The climate verdict for Downsville Dam
Downsville Dam, New York has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 46°F. July is the warmest month at 69°F and January the coldest at 22°F.
- 46°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 141 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Downsville Dam: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00302169 · Downsville Dam, NY 46°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 46°F
- RANK-COOL #1,647
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Tuscarora
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 47°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 7,169 HDD
- STN-1 USC00302169
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Tuscarora, NV (+ 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 NY station list.
- Downsville Dam (this station) 46°F
- Cold Grafton, NY 46°F
- Hot Eureka Airport, NV 46°F
- Near Tuscarora, NV 46°F
- Near Eureka, NV 46°F
Climate Living Index · Downsville Dam
Downsville Dam: 26/100 · grade F
Downsville Dam publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Downsville Dam, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 172 calendar days | 31/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 46.2°F · 21.3° from 67.5°F | 24/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 141 days/year | 19/100 · F |
Downsville Dam · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Downsville Dam sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Downsville Dam are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 76%
- Among 6,861 stations, Downsville Dam sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 66th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 33°F (0°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | N/A | 29.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 36°F (2°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | N/A | 27.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 44°F (7°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 32°F (0°C) | N/A | 27.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 57°F (14°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 44°F (7°C) | N/A | 19.1 | 0.0 |
| May | 69°F (21°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 56°F (13°C) | N/A | 4.6 | 0.6 |
| June | 77°F (25°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 64°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| July | 81°F (27°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 69°F (20°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| August | 79°F (26°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| September | 73°F (23°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 61°F (16°C) | N/A | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| October | 61°F (16°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 49°F (9°C) | N/A | 9.7 | 0.0 |
| November | 49°F (10°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 38°F (3°C) | N/A | 24.2 | 0.0 |
| December | 37°F (3°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | N/A | 27.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 82°F around July 16, short of 90°F on every date, while 172 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 11°F near January 25.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 16, then returns to freezing around October 28, covering 172 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.
The widest day
May 8 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 27°F between the normal high and the normal low.
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Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 3
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 15
50% probability date
Growing Season
141 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,169
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
344
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NY closest to Downsville Dam 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 (46°F here).
- Cashton, WI 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Clarence, PA 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Eureka, NV 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Fremont, MI 46°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Downsville Dam's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Downsville Dam's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,169 annual heating degree days against 344 for cooling. Its 46.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 141 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.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Downsville Dam's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 46.5°F. The annual average is 46°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Downsville Dam's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Downsville Dam's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Downsville Dam, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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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 Downsville Dam's primary station: DOWNSVILLE DAM (USC00302169). 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 Downsville Dam; 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 Downsville Dam 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.