Mansfield, Ohio climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Mansfield's normal year runs from 19°F January nights to 83°F July afternoons, with 42.5 inches of precipitation and 49 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 10.3°C, January lows of −7°C, July highs of 28°C, 1,079 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationMansfield Lahm Regional Airport
- Station IDUSW00014891
- Location40.82°N 82.52°W
- Elevation1,295 ft (395 m)
- From the center4 miles
- Population47,593
On October 23, the normal high in Mansfield is 60°F and the normal low 41°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 37%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Mansfield.
- Jan 34° 19°
- Feb 37° 21°
- Mar 47° 29°
- Apr 60° 39°
- May 71° 50°
- Jun 79° 59°
- Jul 83° 62°
- Aug 81° 61°
- Sep 75° 54°
- Oct 63° 43°
- Nov 50° 33°
- Dec 39° 25°
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 Mansfield each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 83°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 19°F. The most precipitation falls in June (4.79 in), the least in February (2.53 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34°F | 19°F | 26.5°F | 3.22 | 14.5 | 16 | <1 | 27 | 9 h 30 min |
| February | 37°F | 21°F | 29.1°F | 2.53 | 12.7 | 13 | <1 | 24 | 10 h 40 min |
| March | 47°F | 29°F | 37.8°F | 3.34 | 7.6 | 14 | <1 | 21 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 60°F | 39°F | 49.7°F | 4.27 | 1.9 | 15 | <1 | 8 | 13 h 20 min |
| May | 71°F | 50°F | 60.3°F | 4.19 | 0.0 | 14 | <1 | 1 | 14 h 30 min |
| June | 79°F | 59°F | 69.0°F | 4.79 | 0.0 | 13 | 2 | <1 | 15 h |
| July | 83°F | 62°F | 72.6°F | 3.86 | 0.0 | 11 | 3 | <1 | 14 h 50 min |
| August | 81°F | 61°F | 71.0°F | 3.60 | 0.0 | 10 | 2 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| September | 75°F | 54°F | 64.4°F | 3.36 | 0.0 | 10 | 1 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 63°F | 43°F | 53.0°F | 3.16 | 0.5 | 11 | <1 | 4 | 11 h 10 min |
| November | 50°F | 33°F | 41.5°F | 3.15 | 2.3 | 12 | <1 | 15 | 10 h |
| December | 39°F | 25°F | 31.8°F | 3.02 | 9.7 | 14 | <1 | 25 | 9 h 20 min |
| Year (annual) | 60°F | 41°F | 50.6°F | 42.49 | 49.2 | 153 | 8 | 124 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1°C | −7°C | −3.1°C | 82 mm | 37 cm |
| February | 3°C | −6°C | −1.6°C | 64 mm | 32 cm |
| March | 8°C | −2°C | 3.2°C | 85 mm | 19 cm |
| April | 16°C | 4°C | 9.8°C | 108 mm | 5 cm |
| May | 22°C | 10°C | 15.7°C | 106 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 26°C | 15°C | 20.6°C | 122 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 28°C | 17°C | 22.6°C | 98 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 27°C | 16°C | 21.7°C | 91 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 24°C | 12°C | 18.0°C | 85 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 17°C | 6°C | 11.7°C | 80 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 10°C | 1°C | 5.3°C | 80 mm | 6 cm |
| December | 4°C | −4°C | −0.1°C | 77 mm | 25 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00014891; 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 Mansfield?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in May, June, July, August and September. Of those, September has the fewest days with rain (10).
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 USW00014891.
When is the last frost in Mansfield?
In Mansfield, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 26 in half of years and after May 12 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 22 in half of years and before October 6 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
- April 261 year in 10 after May 12; 9 in 10 after April 14
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- October 221 year in 10 before October 6; 9 in 10 before November 4
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 177 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 201 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 16 in half of springs and before November 2 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mansfield in zone 6a across its 5 ZIP code areas (6a in 44903, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Mansfield's NOAA station is in zone 6a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches −5°F (30 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Ohio · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USW00014891; 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.
What hardiness zone is each Mansfield ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Mansfield's 5 ZIP code areas are all in zone 6a. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.
Source: USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; ZIP areas in the place: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) lies in the place.
How hot and how cold does it get in Mansfield?
In a normal year in Mansfield, 8 days a year reach 90°F, 124 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 153 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 8a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- fewer than 1a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 124a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 44high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 153a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 16a normal year
The highest temperature in Mansfield's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1916) is 105°F, on July 21, 1934; the lowest is −22°F, on January 20, 1985.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1990, with 67.22 in; the snowiest season is 1995–96, with 91.0 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00014891; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), NWS threaded record MFDthr. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Mansfield?
Over a year 71% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Mansfield, 3.9 kWh per square metre a day. August is the sunniest month (80%) and December the cloudiest (54%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 55% | 1.6 |
| February | 60% | 2.4 |
| March | 62% | 3.4 |
| April | 68% | 4.7 |
| May | 72% | 5.5 |
| June | 76% | 6.1 |
| July | 79% | 6.1 |
| August | 80% | 5.5 |
| September | 77% | 4.4 |
| October | 69% | 3.0 |
| November | 65% | 2.0 |
| December | 54% | 1.4 |
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 Mansfield need?
A normal year in Mansfield brings 5,983 heating degree days, 11% more than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 751 cooling degree days, 17% fewer 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 3,047 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,192 | 0 |
| February | 1,005 | 0 |
| March | 844 | 1 |
| April | 468 | 7 |
| May | 199 | 55 |
| June | 38 | 158 |
| July | 5 | 239 |
| August | 11 | 197 |
| September | 101 | 81 |
| October | 386 | 12 |
| November | 705 | 0 |
| December | 1,029 | 0 |
| Year (annual) | 5,983 | 751 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00014891. 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 Mansfield been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 50.2°F, 0.4°F below the 1991-2020 normal of 50.6°F. 4 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 53.2°F | +2.6°F | 42.41 | 32.9 |
| 2022 | 50.9°F | +0.3°F | 44.78 | 27.8 |
| 2023 | 52.6°F | +2.0°F | 43.53 | 10.8 |
| 2024 | 54.0°F | +3.4°F | 33.88 | 9.5 |
| 2025 | 50.2°F | −0.4°F | 41.58 | 24.0 |
Over 60 complete years from 1949 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 4.7°F per century (+0.26°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00014891; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Mansfield's climate compare?
Mansfield is warmer than 28 of the other 98 places with their own NOAA record in Ohio, and wetter than 62. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 50.6°F is warmer than 43%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Mansfield 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 Mansfield share this climate record?
9 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their 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.
- Shelby, OH9,238 people · 9 mi NW
- Ontario, OH6,648 people · 6 mi SW
- Lexington, OH4,832 people · 10 mi S
- Roseland, OH1,859 people · 3 mi SW
- Plymouth, OH1,691 people · 14 mi NW
- Greenwich, OH1,383 people · 15 mi N
- Lincoln Heights, OH704 people · 4 mi SE
- Shiloh, OH612 people · 11 mi N
- Lucas, OH586 people · 9 mi SE
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
What do Mansfield's other NOAA stations record?
One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Mansfield. This page uses Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport; the other differs by site and elevation:
| Station | From the center | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mansfield (5 mi W) USC00334874 | 4 mi W | 1,350 ft | 50.3°F | 17°F | 83°F | 42.5 | – | April 30 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for each station. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
Questions about Mansfield's climate
What is the coldest month in Mansfield?
January, with a normal high of 34°F and a normal low of 19°F. The warmest is July (83°F by day, 62°F at night).
Does it snow in Mansfield?
Yes: 49 inches in a normal year, falling on 39 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in January (14.5 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Mansfield?
June, with 4.79 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is February with 2.53 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Mansfield in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Mansfield in zone 6a across its 5 ZIP code areas (6a in 44903, the largest). By the same method at Mansfield's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches −5°F (30 years, 1991-2020): zone 6a.
How late can frost come in Mansfield?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after April 26; in one year in ten it comes after May 12. Waiting until May 12 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Ohio climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Ashland, OH9 miles from this station, 49.7°F a year
- Galion, OH16 miles from this station, 50.1°F a year
- Bucyrus, OH24 miles from this station, 52.3°F a year
- Fredericktown, OH28 miles from this station, 48.5°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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