Hancock Exp Farm, WI Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Hancock Exp Farm's primary NOAA station, HANCOCK EXP FARM.
The climate verdict for Hancock Exp Farm
Hancock Exp Farm, Wisconsin has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 45°F. At 49/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 18% of scores.
- 45°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 34.3"
- annual precipitation · 43" snow
- 146 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Hancock Exp Farm: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00473405 · Hancock Exp Farm, WI 45°F mean · 34.3" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 45°F
- RANK-COOL #1,235
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ New Hampton
- PRCP-MID 34.3"
- SWING-WIDE 54°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,864 HDD
- STN-1 USC00473405
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: New Hampton, IA (+ 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 WI station list.
- Hancock (this station) 45°F
- Hot Waupaca, WI 45°F
- Near New Hampton, IA 45°F
- Near Wisconsin Rapid…, WI 45°F
- Near Upton, WY 45°F
Climate Living Index · Hancock Exp Farm
Hancock Exp Farm: 38/100 · grade F
Hancock Exp Farm publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Hancock Exp Farm, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 34.3 in · 0.7 from 35 in | 94/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 166 calendar days | 35/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 43.1 inches/year | 25/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 146 days/year | 22/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 44.7°F · 22.8° from 67.5°F | 19/100 · F |
Hancock Exp Farm · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Hancock Exp Farm is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 15.9°F and warmest-month mean 70.1°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
- 70.1°F
- Coldest month
- 15.9°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 Hancock Exp Farm sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Hancock Exp Farm's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 82%
- Among 6,861 stations, Hancock Exp Farm sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 47th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 91%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Hancock Exp Farm is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Hancock Exp Farm compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Hancock Exp Farm's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
49 18th percentile score exceeds 18% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Above this entry.
- 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
Hancock Exp Farm's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 95 complete annual observations from 1905 to 2024, HANCOCK EXP FARM warmed at a fitted rate of 0.12°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Hancock Exp Farm primary station fitted change +0.12 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25°F (-4°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 1.1" | 12.8" | 30.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 30°F (-1°C) | 10°F (-12°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 1.0" | 8.2" | 27.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 41°F (5°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 1.9" | 8.3" | 25.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 55°F (13°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 3.6" | 2.7" | 13.6 | 0.0 |
| May | 68°F (20°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 4.2" | 0.0" | 2.4 | 0.4 |
| June | 77°F (25°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 5.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.4 |
| July | 82°F (28°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 4.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.7 |
| August | 79°F (26°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 4.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.7 |
| September | 72°F (22°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 3.3" | 0.0" | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| October | 58°F (15°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 2.7" | 0.3" | 8.7 | 0.0 |
| November | 43°F (6°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 2.0" | 3.3" | 22.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 30°F (-1°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 1.4" | 7.5" | 29.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 82°F around July 14, short of 90°F on every date, while 166 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 6°F near January 24.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 13, then returns to freezing around October 31, covering 166 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 May 31, when 41% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is February 17 at 26%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 115 wet dates a year.
The widest day
May 5 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 Hancock Exp Farm.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 12.8"
8.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.2"
7.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.3"
8.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.7"
10.8 days with precipitation
12.3 days with precipitation
11.8 days with precipitation
10.3 days with precipitation
9.4 days with precipitation
9.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
10.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.3"
7.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.5"
8.4 days with precipitation
Hancock Exp Farm runs a summer-peaked wet season
38% of Hancock Exp Farm's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is June at 5.0", on a wide 54.2°F gap between its warmest and coldest month. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: June, May, July, taking 39% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: February at 1.0".
- Winter share: 10% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
How Hancock Exp Farm's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 115 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 34.3" between them, or roughly 0.30 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 Hancock Exp Farm
Hancock Exp Farm averages 43.1 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 26 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: 43.1 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 26 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 13% 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 3
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 10
50% probability date
Growing Season
146 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,864
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
502
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WI closest to Hancock Exp Farm 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 (45°F here).
- Arlington, SD 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Buena Vista, CO 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Canby, MN 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Evergreen, CO 45°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (34.3" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Clarion, IA 34.3" · 0.0" off
- Herington, KS 34.3" · 0.0" off
- Abilene, KS 34.3" · 0.0" off
- Britt, IA 34.3" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Hancock Exp Farm
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Hancock Exp Farm's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,864 annual heating degree days against 502 for cooling. Its 54.2°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 146 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.
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1. Hancock Exp Farm coldest normal
January
Averaging 16°F (-9°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Hancock Exp Farm typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Hancock Exp Farm snow peak
January
Hancock Exp Farm averages 43.1 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 Hancock Exp Farm's primary station: HANCOCK EXP FARM (USC00473405). 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 Hancock Exp Farm; 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 Hancock Exp Farm 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.