Pawnee City, NE Climate: Temperature by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Pawnee City's primary NOAA station, PAWNEE CITY.
The climate verdict for Pawnee City
Pawnee City, Nebraska has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 52°F. July is the warmest month at 77°F and January the coldest at 25°F.
- 52°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 176 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Pawnee City: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00256570 · Pawnee City, NE 52°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 52°F
- RANK-MID #3,293
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Table Rock
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 52°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 5,898 HDD
- STN-1 USC00256570
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Table Rock, NE ( -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 NE station list.
- Pawnee City (this station) 52°F
- Cold Table Rock, NE 52°F
- Hot Hastings, NE 52°F
- Near Falls City, NE 52°F
- Near Atwood, KS 52°F
Climate Living Index · Pawnee City
Pawnee City: 50/100 · grade D
Pawnee City publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Pawnee City, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 141 calendar days | 52/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 51.8°F · 15.7° from 67.5°F | 48/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 176 days/year | 47/100 · D |
Pawnee City · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Pawnee City sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Pawnee City are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- 48th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 85%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Pawnee City is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Pawnee City's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 68 complete annual observations from 1904 to 2016, PAWNEE CITY changed little at a fitted rate of 0.01°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Pawnee City primary station fitted change +0.01 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35°F (2°C) | 15°F (-10°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | N/A | 29.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 41°F (5°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | N/A | 25.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 53°F (11°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 41°F (5°C) | N/A | 20.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 63°F (17°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 51°F (11°C) | N/A | 6.3 | 0.4 |
| May | 73°F (23°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 62°F (17°C) | N/A | 0.6 | 1.4 |
| June | 83°F (28°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 72°F (22°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 7.1 |
| July | 88°F (31°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 77°F (25°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 13.6 |
| August | 86°F (30°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 75°F (24°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 12.2 |
| September | 79°F (26°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 66°F (19°C) | N/A | 0.1 | 4.6 |
| October | 67°F (19°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 54°F (12°C) | N/A | 5.6 | 0.5 |
| November | 51°F (11°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 40°F (5°C) | N/A | 19.2 | 0.0 |
| December | 39°F (4°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | N/A | 28.1 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 88°F around July 21, short of 90°F on every date, while 141 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 14°F near January 20.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 26, then returns to freezing around November 7, covering 141 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.
The widest day
October 7 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 26°F between the normal high and the normal low.
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Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Pawnee City.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 15
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 22
50% probability date
Growing Season
176 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,898
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,124
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NE closest to Pawnee City 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 (52°F here).
- Bethany, MO 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Boonton, NJ 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Colby, KS 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Hatton, WA 52°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Pawnee City's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Pawnee City's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,898 annual heating degree days against 1,124 for cooling. Its 51.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Pawnee City's frost-free season lasts about 176 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Pawnee City's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 51.7°F. The annual average is 52°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Pawnee City's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Pawnee City'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 Pawnee City, 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 Pawnee City's primary station: PAWNEE CITY (USC00256570). 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 3138575). Match rule for Pawnee City: 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 Pawnee City 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.