Old Town, ME 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 Old Town's primary NOAA station, OLD TOWN 2 W.
The climate verdict for Old Town
Old Town, Maine has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 43°F. At 52/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 24% of scores.
- 43°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 52/100
- comfort score, above 24% of station-mapped location scores
- 44.4"
- yearly precipitation total
- 138 days
- frost-free growing season
Old Town: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00094644 · Old Town, ME 43°F mean · 44.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 43°F
- RANK-COOL #823
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hartford
- PRCP-MID 44.4"
- SWING-WIDE 51°F
- COMF-LOW 52/100
- LOAD-HEAT 8,146 HDD
- STN-1 USW00094644
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Hartford, ME (+ 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 ME station list.
- Old Town (this station) 43°F
- Cold Custer County, SD 43°F
- Hot Hartford, ME 43°F
- Near Rawlins, WY 43°F
- Near Lewistown, MT 43°F
Old Town sits in Maine, the #4 coldest U.S. state at 43.1°F statewide annual average - see all 50 coldest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Old Town
Old Town: 30/100 · grade F
Old Town publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Old Town, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 52/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 44.4 in · 9.4 from 35 in | 67/100 · C |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 174 calendar days | 29/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 138 days/year | 17/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 43.2°F · 24.3° from 67.5°F | 13/100 · F |
Old Town · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Old Town is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 16.8°F and warmest-month mean 67.5°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
- 67.5°F
- Coldest month
- 16.8°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 Old Town sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Old Town's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 88%
- Among 6,861 stations, Old Town sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 67th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 83%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Old Town is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Old Town compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Old Town's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
52 24th percentile score exceeds 24% 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27°F (-3°C) | 6°F (-14°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 3.7" | 30.4 | 0.0 |
| February | 31°F (-1°C) | 8°F (-13°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 3.0" | 27.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 39°F (4°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 29°F (-1°C) | 3.8" | 28.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 52°F (11°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 3.7" | 18.7 | 0.0 |
| May | 65°F (18°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 3.5" | 4.0 | 0.1 |
| June | 73°F (23°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 4.2" | 0.1 | 0.5 |
| July | 79°F (26°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 3.5" | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| August | 78°F (25°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 3.1" | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| September | 70°F (21°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 3.7" | 1.5 | 0.2 |
| October | 57°F (14°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 4.3" | 10.7 | 0.0 |
| November | 44°F (7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 4.0" | 22.8 | 0.0 |
| December | 34°F (1°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 4.2" | 29.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 80°F around July 19, short of 90°F on every date, while 174 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 5°F near January 26.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 20, then returns to freezing around October 30, covering 174 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 December 23, when 46% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is September 4 at 32%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 147 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 24 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 Old Town.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
12.2 days with precipitation
11.2 days with precipitation
11.9 days with precipitation
12.8 days with precipitation
13.7 days with precipitation
13.5 days with precipitation
12.2 days with precipitation
11.7 days with precipitation
9.3 days with precipitation
12.0 days with precipitation
11.7 days with precipitation
14.7 days with precipitation
Old Town spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 24% of the annual total and December through February 24%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Old Town has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 50.7°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: October averages 4.3" and February 3.0". The three wettest months together take 28% 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 Old Town's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 147 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 44.4" between them, or roughly 0.30 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 28
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 13
50% probability date
Growing Season
138 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,146
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
235
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside ME closest to Old Town 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 (43°F here).
- Beulah, ND 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Ellendale, ND 43°F · 0.0°F off
- McLaughlin, SD 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Wilmot, SD 43°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (44.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Cape Charles, VA 44.5" · 0.0" off
- Plymouth, NH 44.5" · 0.0" off
- Weldon Spring, MO 44.4" · 0.0" off
- Clarence, PA 44.5" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Old Town's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Old Town's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,146 annual heating degree days against 235 for cooling. Its 50.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 138 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.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Old Town's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 50.7°F. The annual average is 43°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Old Town's 44.4 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Old Town'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 Old Town, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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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 Old Town's primary station: OLD TOWN 2 W (USW00094644). 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 2355225). Match rule for Old Town: 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 Old Town 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.