Hancock Houghton County, MI Climate: Temperature 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 Hancock Houghton County's primary NOAA station, HANCOCK HOUGHTON CO AP.
The climate verdict for Hancock Houghton County
Hancock Houghton County, Michigan has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 41°F. July is the warmest month at 65°F and January the coldest at 16°F.
- 41°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 137 days
- frost-free growing season
Hancock Houghton County: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00014858 · Hancock Houghton County, MI 41°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 41°F
- RANK-COOL #480
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Long Falls Dam
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 49°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 9,013 HDD
- STN-1 USW00014858
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Long Falls Dam, 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.
- Hancock Houghto… (this station) 41°F
- Cold Patten, ME 41°F
- Hot Danforth, ME 41°F
- Near Long Falls Dam, ME 41°F
- Near Chatham, MI 41°F
Climate Living Index · Hancock Houghton County
Hancock Houghton County: 31/100 · grade F
Hancock Houghton County publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals · NOAA hourly normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Hancock Houghton County, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Summer moisture balance | 54.9°F mean dew point | 91/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 178 calendar days | 26/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 137 days/year | 17/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 40.7°F · 26.8° from 67.5°F | 6/100 · F |
Hancock Houghton County · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Hancock Houghton County sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Hancock Houghton County are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 93%
- Among 6,861 stations, Hancock Houghton County sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 77%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Hancock Houghton County is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Hancock Houghton County's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 59 complete annual observations from 1948 to 2025, HANCOCK HOUGHTON CO AP warmed at a fitted rate of 0.27°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Hancock Houghton County primary station fitted change +0.27 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22°F (-5°C) | 10°F (-12°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | N/A | 30.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 25°F (-4°C) | 9°F (-13°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | N/A | 27.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 34°F (1°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | N/A | 28.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 46°F (8°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 37°F (3°C) | N/A | 20.1 | 0.0 |
| May | 61°F (16°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 50°F (10°C) | N/A | 4.9 | 0.1 |
| June | 71°F (21°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 60°F (15°C) | N/A | 0.2 | 0.6 |
| July | 75°F (24°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 65°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| August | 74°F (23°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 64°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| September | 66°F (19°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 56°F (14°C) | N/A | 0.9 | 0.1 |
| October | 52°F (11°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 44°F (7°C) | N/A | 9.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 38°F (3°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 32°F (0°C) | N/A | 23.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 28°F (-2°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | N/A | 29.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 76°F around July 19, short of 90°F on every date, while 178 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 8°F near February 3.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 24, then returns to freezing around October 30, covering 178 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 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 Hancock Houghton County.
Where Hancock Houghton County Stands Nationally
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 22°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Hancock Houghton County 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
October 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 17
50% probability date
Growing Season
137 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
9,013
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
206
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Humidity & Wind
Monthly averages from hourly observations
| Month | Humidity | Wind (mph) | Clear Sky % | Overcast % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 78% | 10.3 | N/A | N/A |
| February | 75% | 10.0 | 38% | 45% |
| March | 70% | 9.9 | 45% | 35% |
| April | 60% | 9.6 | 52% | 27% |
| May | 65% | 8.6 | 52% | 22% |
| June | 71% | 8.8 | 53% | 21% |
| July | 72% | 8.3 | 56% | 15% |
| August | 75% | 8.5 | 54% | 18% |
| September | 75% | 9.4 | 41% | 34% |
| October | 75% | 10.0 | N/A | N/A |
| November | 80% | 10.3 | N/A | N/A |
| December | 80% | 10.4 | N/A | N/A |
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MI closest to Hancock Houghton 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 (41°F here).
- Gordon, WI 41°F · 0.0°F off
- Houlton, ME 41°F · 0.0°F off
- Prentice, WI 41°F · 0.0°F off
- Wilsall, MT 41°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Hancock Houghton County's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Hancock Houghton County's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 9,013 annual heating degree days against 206 for cooling. Its 48.9°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 137 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 Hancock Houghton County's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 48.9°F. The annual average is 41°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Hancock Houghton County'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 Hancock Houghton 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 Hancock Houghton County, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Hancock Houghton County'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 Hancock Houghton County's primary station: HANCOCK HOUGHTON CO AP (USW00014858). 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 Houghton 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 Hancock Houghton 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.