New Lexington, OH Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from New Lexington's primary NOAA station, NEW LEXINGTON 2 NW.
The climate verdict for New Lexington
New Lexington, Ohio has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 51°F. Its climate comfort score of 59/100 (moderate) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 37% of station-mapped location scores.
- 51°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 59/100
- comfort score, above 37% of station-mapped location scores
- 44.4"
- annual precipitation · 20" snow
- 170 days
- growing season, frost-free days
New Lexington: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00335857 · New Lexington, OH 51°F mean · 44.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 51°F
- RANK-MID #2,950
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Twin Spring Fal…
- PRCP-MID 44.4"
- SWING-MID 45°F
- COMF-MID 59/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,864 HDD
- STN-1 USC00335857
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Twin Spring Fallini, NV (+ 0.1 °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 OH station list.
- New Lexington (this station) 51°F
- Cold Hagerman, ID 51°F
- Hot Cherry Creek Dam, CO 51°F
- Near Twin Spring Fal…, NV 51°F
- Near Winnemucca, NV 51°F
Climate Living Index · New Lexington
New Lexington: 49/100 · grade D
New Lexington publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for New Lexington, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 59/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 44.4 in · 9.4 from 35 in | 67/100 · C |
| Snowfall burden | 20.2 inches/year | 49/100 · D |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 149 calendar days | 47/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 50.7°F · 16.8° from 67.5°F | 43/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 170 days/year | 42/100 · D |
New Lexington · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
New Lexington is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 27.4°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
- 27.4°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 New Lexington sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for New Lexington's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 43rd percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 67th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 57th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How New Lexington compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
New Lexington's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
59 37th percentile score exceeds 37% 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
New Lexington's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 73 complete annual observations from 1944 to 2025, NEW LEXINGTON 2 NW warmed at a fitted rate of 0.03°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- New Lexington primary station fitted change +0.02 °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 | 37°F (3°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 3.4" | 8.6" | 27.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 41°F (5°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 2.7" | 5.3" | 24.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 51°F (10°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 3.8" | 2.8" | 22.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 64°F (18°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 4.4" | 0.1" | 11.0 | 0.0 |
| May | 73°F (23°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 4.3" | 0.0" | 1.4 | 0.2 |
| June | 80°F (27°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 4.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.7 |
| July | 83°F (29°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 4.3 |
| August | 83°F (28°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 3.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.8 |
| September | 77°F (25°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 3.2" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 1.3 |
| October | 65°F (19°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 3.3" | 0.0" | 6.6 | 0.1 |
| November | 53°F (12°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 3.2" | 0.4" | 19.2 | 0.0 |
| December | 42°F (5°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 3.3" | 3.0" | 25.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 84°F around July 7, short of 90°F on every date, while 149 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 17°F near January 24.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 3, then returns to freezing around November 7, covering 149 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 January 11, when 44% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is September 6 at 29%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 137 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 19 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 28°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for New Lexington.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 8.6"
13.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.3"
11.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.8"
11.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
12.1 days with precipitation
13.4 days with precipitation
11.7 days with precipitation
11.1 days with precipitation
9.6 days with precipitation
8.7 days with precipitation
10.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
10.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.0"
13.4 days with precipitation
New Lexington spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 29% of the annual total and December through February 21%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. New Lexington has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 44.7°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: June averages 4.9" and February 2.7". The three wettest months together take 31% 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.
How New Lexington's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 137 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 44.4" 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 New Lexington
New Lexington averages 20.2 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 15 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: 20.2 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 15 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 17
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 30
50% probability date
Growing Season
170 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,864
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
679
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside OH closest to New Lexington 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 (51°F here).
- Decatur, IN 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Ellicott, CO 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Fort Collins, CO 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Fredonia, NY 51°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (44.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Durant, OK 44.4" · 0.0" off
- New Castle, IN 44.4" · 0.0" off
- Uniontown, PA 44.4" · 0.0" off
- Anderson, MO 44.3" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define New Lexington
heating led · moderate · mid swing
New Lexington's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,864 annual heating degree days against 679 for cooling. Its 44.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
New Lexington's frost-free season lasts about 170 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. New Lexington 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. New Lexington typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. New Lexington snow peak
January
New Lexington averages 20.2 inches of snow a year, with January 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 New Lexington's primary station: NEW LEXINGTON 2 NW (USC00335857). 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 3954866). Match rule for New Lexington: 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 New Lexington 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.