Neillsville, WI 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 Neillsville's primary NOAA station, NEILLSVILLE 3ESE.
The climate verdict for Neillsville
Neillsville, Wisconsin has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 44°F. At 49/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 18% of scores.
- 44°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 35.5"
- annual precipitation · 44" snow
- 144 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Neillsville: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00475808 · Neillsville, WI 44°F mean · 35.5" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 44°F
- RANK-COOL #961
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Havre City Coun…
- PRCP-MID 35.5"
- SWING-WIDE 55°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 8,143 HDD
- STN-1 USC00475808
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Havre City County, MT (+ 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 WI station list.
- Neillsville (this station) 44°F
- Cold Harlem, MT 44°F
- Hot Marshfield, WI 44°F
- Near Havre City Coun…, MT 44°F
- Near Viroqua, WI 44°F
Climate Living Index · Neillsville
Neillsville: 36/100 · grade F
Neillsville publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Neillsville, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 35.5 in · 0.5 from 35 in | 95/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 171 calendar days | 31/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 43.6 inches/year | 25/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 144 days/year | 21/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 43.6°F · 23.9° from 67.5°F | 15/100 · F |
Neillsville · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Neillsville is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 14.4°F and warmest-month mean 69.0°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
- 69.0°F
- Coldest month
- 14.4°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 Neillsville sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Neillsville's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 86%
- Among 6,861 stations, Neillsville sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 49th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 91%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Neillsville is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Neillsville compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Neillsville's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
49 18th percentile score exceeds 18% 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
Neillsville's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 95 complete annual observations from 1900 to 2025, NEILLSVILLE 3ESE warmed at a fitted rate of 0.15°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Neillsville primary station fitted change +0.16 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24°F (-5°C) | 5°F (-15°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 1.1" | 9.1" | 30.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 29°F (-2°C) | 8°F (-13°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 1.1" | 9.4" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 41°F (5°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 1.7" | 7.7" | 27.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 55°F (13°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 3.3" | 2.7" | 17.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 68°F (20°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 3.8 | 0.3 |
| June | 77°F (25°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 5.3" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 1.1 |
| July | 80°F (27°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 3.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.1 |
| August | 78°F (26°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 4.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.1 |
| September | 71°F (22°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 4.0" | 0.0" | 1.9 | 0.1 |
| October | 58°F (14°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 3.1" | 0.4" | 13.0 | 0.0 |
| November | 42°F (5°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 1.8" | 3.4" | 25.2 | 0.0 |
| December | 29°F (-2°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 1.4" | 10.9" | 30.1 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 81°F around July 15, short of 90°F on every date, while 171 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 4°F near January 22.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 15, then returns to freezing around October 28, covering 171 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 June 7, when 41% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is February 6 at 23%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 112 wet dates a year.
The widest day
May 6 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 25°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Neillsville.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 9.1"
7.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 9.4"
6.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.7"
7.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.7"
10.6 days with precipitation
12.3 days with precipitation
12.5 days with precipitation
10.0 days with precipitation
10.4 days with precipitation
10.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
9.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.4"
6.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.9"
7.9 days with precipitation
Neillsville runs a summer-peaked wet season
38% of Neillsville's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is June at 5.3", on a wide 54.6°F gap between its warmest and coldest month. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: June, May, August, taking 40% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: February at 1.1".
- Winter share: 10% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
How Neillsville's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 112 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 35.5" between them, or roughly 0.32 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 Neillsville
Neillsville averages 43.6 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 24 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: 43.6 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 24 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 12% 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 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 10
50% probability date
Growing Season
144 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,143
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
396
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WI closest to Neillsville 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 (44°F here).
- Andover, MN 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Clearmont, WY 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Conde, SD 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Crestone, CO 44°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (35.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Brockport, NY 35.5" · 0.0" off
- Northwood, IA 35.5" · 0.1" off
- Owatonna, MN 35.5" · 0.1" off
- Faribault, MN 35.5" · 0.1" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Neillsville
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Neillsville's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,143 annual heating degree days against 396 for cooling. Its 54.6°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 144 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. Neillsville coldest normal
January
Averaging 14°F (-10°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Neillsville typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Neillsville snow peak
December
Neillsville averages 43.6 inches of snow a year, with December 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 Neillsville's primary station: NEILLSVILLE 3ESE (USC00475808). 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 5555800). Match rule for Neillsville: 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 Neillsville 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.