Little Falls, NJ Climate: Temperature by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Little Falls's primary NOAA station, LITTLE FALLS.
The climate verdict for Little Falls
Little Falls, New Jersey has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 53°F. July is the warmest month at 76°F and January the coldest at 31°F.
- 53°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 196 days
- frost-free growing season
Little Falls: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00284887 · Little Falls, NJ 53°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 53°F
- RANK-MID #3,705
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Philadelphia/mt…
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 45°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 5,286 HDD
- STN-1 USC00284887
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Philadelphia/mt Holly, NJ (+ 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 NJ station list.
- Little Falls (this station) 53°F
- Cold Oolitic Purdue…, IN 53°F
- Hot Lambertville, NJ 53°F
- Near Philadelphia/mt…, NJ 53°F
- Near Seymour, IN 53°F
Climate Living Index · Little Falls
Little Falls: 60/100 · grade C
Little Falls publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Little Falls, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 116 calendar days | 67/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 196 days/year | 61/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 53.1°F · 14.4° from 67.5°F | 53/100 · D |
Little Falls · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Little Falls sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Little Falls are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- 54th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 61st percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude 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 | 39°F (4°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | N/A | 27.4 | 0.0 |
| February | 41°F (5°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 32°F (0°C) | N/A | 23.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 51°F (10°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | N/A | 19.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 63°F (17°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 51°F (11°C) | N/A | 5.6 | 0.4 |
| May | 73°F (23°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 62°F (16°C) | N/A | 0.1 | 1.5 |
| June | 82°F (28°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 71°F (22°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 5.8 |
| July | 87°F (30°C) | 65°F (19°C) | 76°F (24°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 8.4 |
| August | 84°F (29°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 74°F (23°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 5.0 |
| September | 76°F (25°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 66°F (19°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| October | 65°F (18°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 55°F (13°C) | N/A | 3.0 | 0.1 |
| November | 54°F (12°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 45°F (7°C) | N/A | 13.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 44°F (7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 35°F (2°C) | N/A | 24.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 87°F around July 11, short of 90°F on every date, while 116 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 21°F near January 26.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 20, then returns to freezing around November 26, covering 116 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
April 21 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 Little Falls.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 28
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 15
50% probability date
Growing Season
196 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,286
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
975
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NJ closest to Little Falls 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 (53°F here).
- Allentown, PA 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Dallas, OR 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Danville, IL 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Decatur, IL 53°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Little Falls's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Little Falls's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,286 annual heating degree days against 975 for cooling. Its 45.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Little Falls's frost-free season lasts about 196 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Little Falls's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 45.4°F. The annual average is 53°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Little Falls'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 Little Falls'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 Little Falls, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Little Falls'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 Little Falls's primary station: LITTLE FALLS (USC00284887). 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 Little Falls; 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 Little Falls 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.