Hale, MI Climate: Temperature by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Hale's primary NOAA station, HALE 5SSW #2.
The climate verdict for Hale
Hale, Michigan has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 43°F. July is the warmest month at 67°F and January the coldest at 18°F.
- 43°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 126 days
- frost-free growing season
Hale: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00203528 · Hale, MI 43°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 43°F
- RANK-COOL #892
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ New Sharon
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 49°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 8,109 HDD
- STN-1 USC00203528
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: New Sharon, 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.
- Hot Sweetgrass, MT 44°F
- Hale (this station) 43°F
- Near New Sharon, ME 43°F
- Near East Hiram, ME 43°F
- Near Buffalo, WY 43°F
Climate Living Index · Hale
Hale: 17/100 · grade F
Hale publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Hale, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 184 calendar days | 23/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 43.4°F · 24.1° from 67.5°F | 14/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 126 days/year | 10/100 · F |
Hale · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Hale sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Hale are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 87%
- Among 6,861 stations, Hale sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 79%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Hale is large 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 | 27°F (-3°C) | 9°F (-13°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | N/A | 30.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 30°F (-1°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | N/A | 27.7 | 0.0 |
| March | 40°F (4°C) | 17°F (-9°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | N/A | 26.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 54°F (12°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 41°F (5°C) | N/A | 22.8 | 0.0 |
| May | 67°F (19°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 54°F (12°C) | N/A | 6.3 | 0.4 |
| June | 77°F (25°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 63°F (17°C) | N/A | 0.3 | 0.9 |
| July | 81°F (27°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 67°F (20°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 4.8 |
| August | 79°F (26°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 66°F (19°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| September | 72°F (22°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 58°F (15°C) | N/A | 1.5 | 0.5 |
| October | 58°F (15°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | N/A | 14.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 44°F (7°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 35°F (2°C) | N/A | 24.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 33°F (0°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | N/A | 29.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 81°F around July 17, short of 90°F on every date, while 184 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 6°F near February 3.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 23, then returns to freezing around October 23, covering 184 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
June 25 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 28°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Hale.
Where Hale Stands Nationally
Freezing is routine here by normals standards — the normal low reaches 32°F or colder on about 184 nights a year, more than most ranked stations.
Hale 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
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 26
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 23
50% probability date
Growing Season
126 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,109
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
279
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MI closest to Hale 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).
- Ashton, ID 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Buffalo, WY 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Minot, ND 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Plymouth, NH 43°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Hale's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Hale's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,109 annual heating degree days against 279 for cooling. Its 49.3°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 126 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 Hale's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 49.3°F. The annual average is 43°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Hale'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 Hale'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 Hale, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Hale's climate
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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 Hale's primary station: HALE 5SSW #2 (USC00203528). 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 Hale; 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 Hale 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.