Eau Claire, MI 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 Eau Claire's primary NOAA station, EAU CLAIRE 4 NE.
The climate verdict for Eau Claire
Eau Claire, Michigan has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 52°F. Its climate comfort score of 58/100 (moderate) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 37% of station-mapped location scores.
- 52°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 58/100
- comfort score, above 37% of station-mapped location scores
- 38.3"
- annual precipitation · 87" snow
- 191 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Eau Claire: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00202445 · Eau Claire, MI 52°F mean · 38.3" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 52°F
- RANK-MID #3,225
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Milford
- PRCP-MID 38.3"
- SWING-WIDE 48°F
- COMF-MID 58/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,815 HDD
- STN-1 USC00202445
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Milford Muni, UT (+ 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 MI station list.
- Eau Claire (this station) 52°F
- Hot Rushville, IL 52°F
- Near Milford, UT 52°F
- Near Lafayette, IN 52°F
- Near Bonny Dam, CO 52°F
Climate Living Index · Eau Claire
Eau Claire: 55/100 · grade C
Eau Claire publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Eau Claire, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 58/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 38.3 in · 3.3 from 35 in | 88/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 123 calendar days | 63/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 191 days/year | 58/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 51.6°F · 15.9° from 67.5°F | 47/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 86.6 inches/year | 4/100 · F |
Eau Claire · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Eau Claire is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 26.5°F and warmest-month mean 74.5°F place this station in continental, no dry season, hot summer climates (Dfa). Class Dfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 74.5°F
- Coldest month
- 26.5°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 Eau Claire sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Eau Claire's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 47th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 54th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 73%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Eau Claire is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Eau Claire compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Eau Claire's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
58 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 33°F (1°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 2.4" | 30.5" | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 37°F (3°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 1.9" | 17.0" | 25.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 48°F (9°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 2.0" | 8.1" | 21.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 61°F (16°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 3.5" | 1.4" | 6.6 | 0.0 |
| May | 73°F (23°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 3.5" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 1.0 |
| June | 81°F (27°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 4.5 |
| July | 85°F (29°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 6.4 |
| August | 83°F (28°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.8 |
| September | 76°F (25°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 3.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.4 |
| October | 64°F (18°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 4.3" | 0.4" | 1.4 | 0.0 |
| November | 49°F (10°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 3.0" | 6.6" | 13.5 | 0.0 |
| December | 38°F (3°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 2.4" | 22.6" | 25.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 85°F around July 6, short of 90°F on every date, while 123 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 19°F near January 22.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 24, then returns to freezing around November 23, covering 123 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 54% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 30 at 29%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 141 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 29 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 22°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Eau Claire.
Where Eau Claire Stands Nationally
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 22°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Eau Claire 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: 30.5"
17.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 17.0"
11.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.1"
10.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.4"
12.7 days with precipitation
11.3 days with precipitation
10.3 days with precipitation
8.9 days with precipitation
9.5 days with precipitation
9.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
11.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.6"
12.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 22.6"
15.1 days with precipitation
Eau Claire spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 32% of the annual total and December through February 17%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Eau Claire has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 48°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: August averages 4.5" and February 1.9". The three wettest months together take 33% 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 Eau Claire's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 141 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 38.3" between them, or roughly 0.27 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 Eau Claire
Eau Claire averages 86.6 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 38 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: 86.6 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 38 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 23% 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 30
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 22
50% probability date
Growing Season
191 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,815
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
964
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MI closest to Eau Claire 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 (52°F here).
- Amity, MO 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Carmel, IN 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Fairbury, NE 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Gallatin, MO 52°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (38.3" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Farmingdale, NY 38.3" · 0.0" off
- Morrison, IL 38.3" · 0.0" off
- Caledonia, MN 38.3" · 0.0" off
- Haysville, KS 38.3" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Eau Claire
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Eau Claire's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,815 annual heating degree days against 964 for cooling. Its 48.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Eau Claire's frost-free season lasts about 191 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. Eau Claire coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 27°F (-3°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Eau Claire typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Eau Claire snow peak
January
Eau Claire averages 86.6 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 Eau Claire's primary station: EAU CLAIRE 4 NE (USC00202445). 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 2624580). Match rule for Eau Claire: 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 Eau Claire 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.