Loup City, Nebraska climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Loup City's normal year runs from 12°F January nights to 88°F July afternoons, with 26.5 inches of precipitation and 31 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 10.1°C, January lows of −11°C, July highs of 31°C, 672 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationLoup City
- Station IDUSC00254985
- Location41.28°N 98.97°W
- Elevation2,070 ft (631 m)
- From the centerunder 1 mile
- Population1,044
On October 23, the normal high in Loup City is 63°F and the normal low 34°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 19%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Loup City.
- Jan 37° 12°
- Feb 41° 16°
- Mar 53° 25°
- Apr 63° 35°
- May 73° 46°
- Jun 84° 58°
- Jul 88° 63°
- Aug 86° 61°
- Sep 79° 50°
- Oct 66° 37°
- Nov 52° 24°
- Dec 40° 16°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
What is the weather like in Loup City each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 88°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 12°F. The most precipitation falls in May (4.36 in), the least in January (0.56 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 37°F | 12°F | 24.9°F | 0.56 | 7.7 | 4 | <1 | 31 | 9 h 30 min |
| February | 41°F | 16°F | 28.4°F | 0.66 | 6.5 | 5 | <1 | 27 | 10 h 40 min |
| March | 53°F | 25°F | 38.9°F | 1.53 | 4.5 | 7 | <1 | 24 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 63°F | 35°F | 49.0°F | 2.94 | 1.2 | 9 | <1 | 11 | 13 h 20 min |
| May | 73°F | 46°F | 59.6°F | 4.36 | 0.0 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 14 h 30 min |
| June | 84°F | 58°F | 70.8°F | 4.14 | 0.0 | 11 | 6 | <1 | 15 h 10 min |
| July | 88°F | 63°F | 75.5°F | 3.23 | 0.0 | 9 | 11 | <1 | 14 h 50 min |
| August | 86°F | 61°F | 73.3°F | 3.19 | 0.0 | 8 | 8 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| September | 79°F | 50°F | 64.5°F | 2.18 | 0.0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 66°F | 37°F | 51.2°F | 1.88 | 1.3 | 7 | <1 | 10 | 11 h 10 min |
| November | 52°F | 24°F | 38.0°F | 1.13 | 3.3 | 4 | <1 | 25 | 9 h 50 min |
| December | 40°F | 16°F | 27.6°F | 0.67 | 6.2 | 4 | <1 | 31 | 9 h 10 min |
| Year (annual) | 63°F | 37°F | 50.1°F | 26.47 | 30.7 | 84 | 29 | 161 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3°C | −11°C | −3.9°C | 14 mm | 20 cm |
| February | 5°C | −9°C | −2.0°C | 17 mm | 17 cm |
| March | 11°C | −4°C | 3.8°C | 39 mm | 11 cm |
| April | 17°C | 2°C | 9.4°C | 75 mm | 3 cm |
| May | 23°C | 8°C | 15.3°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 29°C | 14°C | 21.6°C | 105 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 31°C | 17°C | 24.2°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 30°C | 16°C | 22.9°C | 81 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 26°C | 10°C | 18.1°C | 55 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 19°C | 3°C | 10.7°C | 48 mm | 3 cm |
| November | 11°C | −4°C | 3.3°C | 29 mm | 8 cm |
| December | 4°C | −9°C | −2.4°C | 17 mm | 16 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00254985; annual normals. Wet days: 0.01 inch or more; 90°F days and freezing nights: NOAA's day counts. Daylight: sunrise to sunset on the 15th, computed from the latitude.
When is the best weather to visit Loup City?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in May, June, September and October. Of those, September has the fewest days with rain (6).
That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00254985.
When is the last frost in Loup City?
In Loup City, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after May 2 in half of years and after May 14 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 8 in half of years and before September 25 in one year in ten.
Frost-free in half of yearsFrost in 1 to 9 years out of 10Frost most years
- Last spring frost, half of years after
- May 21 year in 10 after May 14; 9 in 10 after April 18
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- October 81 year in 10 before September 25; 9 in 10 before October 19
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 158 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 178 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 21 in half of springs and before October 17 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Loup City in zone 5b in ZIP code 68853, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Loup City's NOAA station is in zone 5b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches −15°F (21 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Nebraska · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00254985; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; the station zone: ACIS daily lows, 1991-2020. A 10% date means one year in ten has a frost after it in spring or before it in autumn.
How hot and how cold does it get in Loup City?
In a normal year in Loup City, 29 days a year reach 90°F (1 of them 100°F or more), 161 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 84 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 29a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 1a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 161a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 40high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 84a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 11a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1901) is 112°F, on July 12, 1939; the lowest is −33°F, on January 12, 1912.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1905, with 41.62 in; the snowiest season is 1983–84, with 74.0 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00254985; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00254985. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Loup City?
Over a year 78% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Loup City, 4.3 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (85%) and March the cloudiest (71%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 75% | 2.2 |
| February | 75% | 3.1 |
| March | 71% | 4.0 |
| April | 73% | 5.2 |
| May | 74% | 6.0 |
| June | 82% | 6.8 |
| July | 85% | 6.8 |
| August | 83% | 5.8 |
| September | 81% | 4.7 |
| October | 77% | 3.4 |
| November | 77% | 2.4 |
| December | 73% | 1.8 |
Source: NASA POWER solar climatology, 2001-2020 (CERES SYN1deg). Satellite-based, for the 1-degree cell (about 100 km across) around the station, so it describes the area rather than the airport.
How much heating and cooling does Loup City need?
A normal year in Loup City brings 6,336 heating degree days, 18% more than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 959 cooling degree days, 6% more than the median (908). Seven months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 3,198 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,243 | 0 |
| February | 1,025 | 0 |
| March | 811 | 0 |
| April | 486 | 6 |
| May | 215 | 49 |
| June | 29 | 202 |
| July | 3 | 330 |
| August | 8 | 266 |
| September | 112 | 99 |
| October | 435 | 7 |
| November | 810 | 0 |
| December | 1,159 | 0 |
| Year (annual) | 6,336 | 959 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00254985. A degree day is one degree of a day's mean temperature below 65°F (heating) or above it (cooling); utilities use them to estimate energy use.
Has Loup City been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 50.8°F, 0.7°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 50.1°F. 4 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 50.9°F | +0.8°F | 23.82 | 27.5 |
| 2022 | 49.6°F | −0.5°F | 17.99 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 50.4°F | +0.3°F | 28.54 | 27.0 |
| 2024 | 51.6°F | +1.5°F | 28.39 | 17.0 |
| 2025 | 50.8°F | +0.7°F | 32.95 | 15.1 |
Over 74 complete years from 1897 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 1.6°F per century (+0.09°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00254985; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Loup City's climate compare?
Loup City is warmer than 74 of the other 136 places with their own NOAA record in Nebraska, and wetter than 61. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 50.1°F is warmer than 40%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Loup City is Dfa: continental, no dry season, hot summer. What the classes mean.
Places with the most similar year elsewhere
Measured month by month on the normal high, low and precipitation, among places of 20,000 or more people in other states:
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for every station PlainClimate covers. Similarity: the root-mean-square difference of the 36 monthly figures, precipitation weighted so an inch counts like 6°F.
Which places near Loup City share this climate record?
Ashton has no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of its own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.
- Ashton, NE199 people · 9 mi E
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
Questions about Loup City's climate
What is the coldest month in Loup City?
January, with a normal high of 37°F and a normal low of 12°F. The warmest is July (88°F by day, 63°F at night).
Does it snow in Loup City?
Yes: 31 inches in a normal year, falling on 15 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in January (7.7 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Loup City?
May, with 4.36 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is January with 0.56 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Loup City in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Loup City in zone 5b in ZIP code 68853, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Loup City's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches −15°F (21 years, 1991-2020): zone 5b.
How late can frost come in Loup City?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after May 2; in one year in ten it comes after May 14. Waiting until May 14 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Nebraska climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Ravenna, NE17 miles from this station, 49.6°F a year
- Mason City, NE17 miles from this station, 49.5°F a year
- North Loup, NE18 miles from this station, 48.2°F a year
- Comstock, NE24 miles from this station, 48.6°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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