Lehighton, PA Climate: Temperature & Rain 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 Lehighton's primary NOAA station, LEHIGHTON 1SSW.
The climate verdict for Lehighton
Water is the standout signal in Lehighton, Pennsylvania: 51.9 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 50°F. At 53/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 50°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 53/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 51.9"
- annual precipitation · 27" snow
- 185 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Lehighton: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00364934 · Lehighton, PA 50°F mean · 51.9" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 50°F
- RANK-MID #2,744
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Plymouth
- PRCP-WET 51.9"
- SWING-MID 45°F
- COMF-LOW 53/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,027 HDD
- STN-1 USC00364934
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Plymouth, MA (+ 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 PA station list.
- Lehighton (this station) 50°F
- Cold Mesa Verde Nati…, CO 50°F
- Hot S Mtn, PA 50°F
- Near Plymouth, MA 50°F
- Near Loyalhanna Lake, PA 50°F
Climate Living Index · Lehighton
Lehighton: 46/100 · grade D
Lehighton publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Lehighton, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 53/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 137 calendar days | 55/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 185 days/year | 54/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 27.3 inches/year | 41/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 50.0°F · 17.5° from 67.5°F | 40/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 51.9 in · 16.9 from 35 in | 40/100 · D |
Lehighton · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Lehighton is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 27.2°F and warmest-month mean 72.1°F place this station in continental, no dry season, hot summer climates (Dfa). Class Dfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 72.1°F
- Coldest month
- 27.2°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 Lehighton sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Lehighton's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 40th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 15% wettest
- Lehighton's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 58th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Lehighton compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Lehighton's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
53 31st percentile score exceeds 31% 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 | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 36°F (2°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 3.8" | 7.8" | 27.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 38°F (4°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 2.9" | 9.8" | 25.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 47°F (8°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 3.9" | 6.3" | 23.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 61°F (16°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 3.9" | 0.4" | 8.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 71°F (21°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 4.3" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| June | 78°F (25°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 5.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| July | 82°F (28°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 4.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.2 |
| August | 80°F (27°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 4.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| September | 73°F (23°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 5.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| October | 62°F (16°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 4.7" | 0.0" | 3.2 | 0.0 |
| November | 50°F (10°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 3.9" | 0.3" | 19.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 40°F (4°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 4.4" | 2.7" | 23.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 82°F around July 10, short of 90°F on every date, while 137 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 18°F near January 19.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 29, then returns to freezing around November 14, covering 137 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 17, when 44% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is March 5 at 31%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 132 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 24 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 24°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Lehighton.
Where Lehighton Stands Nationally
The normal water year runs well above the national norm at roughly 52 inches.
Lehighton 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: 7.8"
10.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 9.8"
8.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.3"
9.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
11.1 days with precipitation
13.9 days with precipitation
12.6 days with precipitation
11.7 days with precipitation
11.3 days with precipitation
10.3 days with precipitation
11.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
9.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.7"
10.7 days with precipitation
Lehighton spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 28% of the annual total and December through February 21%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Lehighton has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 44.9°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: September averages 5.6" and February 2.9". The three wettest months together take 30% 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.
When it rains in Lehighton, it arrives in quantity
51.9" of precipitation falls across only about 132 wet days here, averaging 0.39 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 132 a year, 36% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.39 inches
- Most wet days
- May, about 14
- Fewest wet days
- February, about 9
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Winter brings real snow to Lehighton
Lehighton averages 27.3 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 11 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: 27.3 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 11 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 5% 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 23
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 21
50% probability date
Growing Season
185 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,027
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
581
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside PA closest to Lehighton 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 (50°F here).
- Albia, IA 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Aledo, IL 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Centerburg, OH 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Circleville, UT 50°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (51.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Jackson, KY 51.9" · 0.0" off
- Live Oak, FL 51.9" · 0.0" off
- Rock Hill, NY 51.9" · 0.0" off
- Woonsocket, RI 51.9" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Lehighton
heating led · wet · mid swing
Lehighton's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,027 annual heating degree days against 581 for cooling. Its 44.9°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Lehighton's frost-free season lasts about 185 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Lehighton coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 27°F (-3°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Lehighton typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Lehighton snow peak
February
Lehighton averages 27.3 inches of snow a year, with February 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 Lehighton's primary station: LEHIGHTON 1SSW (USC00364934). 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 an incorporated place (GEOID 4242472). Match rule for Lehighton: 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 Lehighton 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.