Lakewood, WI 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 Lakewood's primary NOAA station, LAKEWOOD 3 NE.
The climate verdict for Lakewood
Lakewood, Wisconsin has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 42°F. At 44/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 10% of scores.
- 42°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 32.8"
- annual precipitation · 61" snow
- 129 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Lakewood: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00474523 · Lakewood, WI 42°F mean · 32.8" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 42°F
- RANK-COOL #549
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Presque Isle
- PRCP-MID 32.8"
- SWING-WIDE 53°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 8,787 HDD
- STN-1 USC00474523
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Presque Isle, ME (+ 0.1 °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.
- Lakewood (this station) 42°F
- Hot Presque Isle, ME 42°F
- Cold Superior, WI 41°F
- Near Chatham, MI 41°F
- Near Sandstone, MN 41°F
Climate Living Index · Lakewood
Lakewood: 28/100 · grade F
Lakewood publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Lakewood, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 32.8 in · 2.2 from 35 in | 91/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 186 calendar days | 22/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 61.1 inches/year | 15/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 129 days/year | 11/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 41.5°F · 26.0° from 67.5°F | 8/100 · F |
Lakewood · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Lakewood is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 13.4°F and warmest-month mean 66.8°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
- 66.8°F
- Coldest month
- 13.4°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 Lakewood sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Lakewood's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 92%
- Among 6,861 stations, Lakewood sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 44th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 89%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Lakewood is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Lakewood compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Lakewood's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
44 10th percentile score exceeds 10% 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23°F (-5°C) | 4°F (-15°C) | 13°F (-10°C) | 1.3" | 15.7" | 30.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 27°F (-3°C) | 6°F (-15°C) | 17°F (-9°C) | 1.2" | 10.6" | 27.6 | 0.0 |
| March | 39°F (4°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 1.8" | 11.4" | 28.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 52°F (11°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 3.1" | 5.1" | 20.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 66°F (19°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 3.7" | 0.2" | 6.2 | 0.3 |
| June | 75°F (24°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 4.3" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 1.2 |
| July | 79°F (26°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 3.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.9 |
| August | 76°F (25°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 3.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.1 |
| September | 69°F (20°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 3.7" | 0.0" | 2.0 | 0.2 |
| October | 55°F (13°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 3.1" | 0.9" | 15.9 | 0.0 |
| November | 40°F (4°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 2.1" | 4.5" | 26.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 28°F (-2°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 1.7" | 12.7" | 30.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 79°F around July 16, short of 90°F on every date, while 186 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 3°F near January 26.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 24, then returns to freezing around October 22, covering 186 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 26, when 35% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is February 9 at 18%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 97 wet dates a year.
The widest day
May 21 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 27°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Lakewood.
Where Lakewood Stands Nationally
Freezing is routine here by normals standards — the normal low reaches 32°F or colder on about 186 nights a year, more than most ranked stations.
Lakewood 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: 15.7"
7.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.6"
4.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.4"
7.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.1"
9.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
10.7 days with precipitation
10.0 days with precipitation
9.7 days with precipitation
8.4 days with precipitation
9.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.9"
8.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.5"
6.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 12.7"
5.7 days with precipitation
Lakewood spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 34% of the annual total and December through February 13%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Lakewood has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 53.4°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: June averages 4.3" and February 1.2". 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.
How Lakewood's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 97 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 32.8" between them, or roughly 0.34 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 Lakewood
Lakewood averages 61.1 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 25 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: 61.1 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 25 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 19% 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
September 28
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 22
50% probability date
Growing Season
129 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,787
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
268
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WI closest to Lakewood 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 (42°F here).
- Forman, ND 42°F · 0.0°F off
- Gloversville, NY 42°F · 0.0°F off
- Hebron, ND 42°F · 0.0°F off
- Lima, MT 42°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (32.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Amboy, MN 32.8" · 0.0" off
- Pocahontas, IA 32.8" · 0.0" off
- Sonora, CA 32.8" · 0.0" off
- Big Bay, MI 32.8" · 0.1" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Lakewood
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Lakewood's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,787 annual heating degree days against 268 for cooling. Its 53.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 129 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. Lakewood coldest normal
January
Averaging 13°F (-10°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Lakewood typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Lakewood snow peak
January
Lakewood averages 61.1 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 Lakewood's primary station: LAKEWOOD 3 NE (USC00474523). 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 a census-designated place (GEOID 5542050), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Lakewood: 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 Lakewood 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.