Gaylord Otsego County, 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 Gaylord Otsego County's primary NOAA station, GAYLORD OTSEGO CO AP.
The climate verdict for Gaylord Otsego County
Gaylord Otsego County, Michigan has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 43°F. At 52/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 24% of scores.
- 43°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 52/100
- comfort score, above 24% of station-mapped location scores
- 29.5"
- precipitation, annual total
- 131 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Gaylord Otsego County: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00004854 · Gaylord Otsego County, MI 43°F mean · 29.5" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 43°F
- RANK-COOL #755
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Vanceboro NO
- PRCP-MID 29.5"
- SWING-WIDE 49°F
- COMF-LOW 52/100
- LOAD-HEAT 8,361 HDD
- STN-1 USW00004854
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Vanceboro NO, ME (+ 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.
- Gaylord Otsego… (this station) 43°F
- Cold Marquette, MI 43°F
- Hot Millinocket, ME 43°F
- Near Vanceboro NO, ME 43°F
- Near Pellston Rgnl, MI 43°F
Climate Living Index · Gaylord Otsego County
Gaylord Otsego County: 31/100 · grade F
Gaylord Otsego County publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Gaylord Otsego County, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 52/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 29.5 in · 5.5 from 35 in | 80/100 · B |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 175 calendar days | 29/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 131 days/year | 13/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 42.7°F · 24.8° from 67.5°F | 11/100 · F |
Gaylord Otsego County · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Gaylord Otsego County is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 17.7°F and warmest-month mean 66.6°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
- 66.6°F
- Coldest month
- 17.7°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 Gaylord Otsego County sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Gaylord Otsego County's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 89%
- Among 6,861 stations, Gaylord Otsego County sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 39th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 77%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Gaylord Otsego County is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Gaylord Otsego County compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Gaylord Otsego County's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
52 24th percentile score exceeds 24% 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 | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25°F (-4°C) | 11°F (-12°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 1.2" | 30.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 27°F (-3°C) | 10°F (-12°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 1.1" | 27.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 38°F (3°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 1.4" | 27.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 51°F (10°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 2.7" | 19.2 | 0.0 |
| May | 65°F (18°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 3.0" | 4.7 | 0.0 |
| June | 74°F (23°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 2.8" | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| July | 78°F (26°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 2.8" | 0.0 | 1.4 |
| August | 76°F (24°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 3.3" | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| September | 68°F (20°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 3.6" | 1.2 | 0.1 |
| October | 55°F (13°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 3.6" | 11.1 | 0.0 |
| November | 41°F (5°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 2.3" | 21.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 30°F (-1°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 1.6" | 29.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 78°F around July 17, short of 90°F on every date, while 175 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 9°F near February 3.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 21, then returns to freezing around October 30, covering 175 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 October 23, when 53% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 4 at 35%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 156 wet dates a year.
The widest day
May 14 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 Gaylord Otsego County.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
13.4 days with precipitation
11.3 days with precipitation
10.9 days with precipitation
12.7 days with precipitation
13.0 days with precipitation
11.7 days with precipitation
11.2 days with precipitation
11.8 days with precipitation
13.5 days with precipitation
16.8 days with precipitation
14.7 days with precipitation
14.7 days with precipitation
Gaylord Otsego County spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 30% of the annual total and December through February 13%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Gaylord Otsego County has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 48.9°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: September averages 3.6" and February 1.1". 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 Gaylord Otsego County in small, frequent amounts
Gaylord Otsego County records about 156 days with measurable precipitation a year and 29.5" in total, which works out to roughly 0.19 inches on an average wet day. Precipitation on 43% 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: October, about 17 of them.
- Fewest: March, about 11.
- Average depth per wet day: 0.19 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 30
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 22
50% probability date
Growing Season
131 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,361
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
274
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MI closest to Gaylord Otsego County 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 (43°F here).
- Danbury, WI 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Ennis, MT 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Holcombe, WI 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Idaho Falls, ID 43°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (29.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Lincoln, NE 29.5" · 0.0" off
- Milford, IA 29.5" · 0.0" off
- Throckmorton, TX 29.5" · 0.0" off
- Detroit Lakes, MN 29.4" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Gaylord Otsego County's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Gaylord Otsego County's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,361 annual heating degree days against 274 for cooling. Its 48.9°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 131 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 Gaylord Otsego County's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 48.9°F. The annual average is 43°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Gaylord Otsego County's 29.5 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Gaylord Otsego County'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 Gaylord Otsego County, 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 Gaylord Otsego County's primary station: GAYLORD OTSEGO CO AP (USW00004854). 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 Gaylord Otsego County; 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 Gaylord Otsego County 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.