Peabody, Massachusetts climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Peabody's center at January lows of 19°F and July highs of 82°F, a yearly mean of 49.7°F and 48.0 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Beverly (4 miles NE, 108 ft), has January lows of 20°F and July highs of 82°F.
55,418 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 36° 19°
- Feb 38° 20°
- Mar 46° 27°
- Apr 57° 37°
- May 67° 47°
- Jun 76° 56°
- Jul 82° 62°
- Aug 80° 61°
- Sep 73° 53°
- Oct 62° 42°
- Nov 51° 33°
- Dec 41° 25°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
The months above are NOAA's gridded normals at Peabody's center.
What is each month like in Peabody?
NOAA's grid estimates the normals every 5 km or so from the stations around each point, terrain included. It smooths between stations, so night lows at the heart of a large city can run warmer than the grid shows: at five big-city airports we compared, the grid's highs were within about 1°F of the station and its lows 1-6°F cooler. The nearest record's high and low are beside each month.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Beverly high | Beverly low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 36°F | 19°F | 27.4°F | 3.63 | 36°F | 20°F |
| February | 38°F | 20°F | 29.2°F | 3.46 | 39°F | 21°F |
| March | 46°F | 27°F | 36.5°F | 4.54 | 45°F | 28°F |
| April | 57°F | 37°F | 47.0°F | 4.22 | 57°F | 37°F |
| May | 67°F | 47°F | 56.9°F | 3.68 | 67°F | 47°F |
| June | 76°F | 56°F | 66.2°F | 4.20 | 76°F | 56°F |
| July | 82°F | 62°F | 72.0°F | 3.59 | 82°F | 62°F |
| August | 80°F | 61°F | 70.5°F | 3.54 | 81°F | 61°F |
| September | 73°F | 53°F | 63.2°F | 3.78 | 73°F | 53°F |
| October | 62°F | 42°F | 51.9°F | 4.70 | 62°F | 42°F |
| November | 51°F | 33°F | 42.1°F | 3.99 | 51°F | 34°F |
| December | 41°F | 25°F | 33.0°F | 4.67 | 42°F | 26°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 9.8°C, January lows of −7°C, July highs of 28°C and 1,219 mm of precipitation a year.
Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Monthly Gridded Climate Normals 1991-2020 (nClimGrid, accession 0245564); NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 station normals. The grid cell holding the city's Census center point.
What do the station records around Peabody say?
Each row is a NOAA station's own 1991-2020 normals, with the snow and frost dates the grid does not give. A record downhill or nearer the coast than the city can run warmer, one uphill cooler: compare the elevations.
| Record | Where | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BeverlyBeverly Municipal Airport | 4 mi NE | 108 ft | 49.8°F | 20°F | 82°F | 44.9 | – | April 24 |
| Middleton | 5 mi NW | 110 ft | 48.3°F | 16°F | 81°F | 48.1 | 48 | May 3 |
| Marblehead | 6 mi SE | 84 ft | 48.7°F | 18°F | 80°F | 48.0 | 39 | April 25 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals; place center and population: Census Bureau 2024. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
How much snow, how late a frost, what zone and how much sun in Peabody?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Beverly (4 miles NE, 108 ft). NOAA publishes no snowfall normal for it; the nearest record that has one, Middleton (5 miles NW), gets 48 inches a year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 24 in half of years and the first autumn frost before October 17. Its record high is 100°F (2017) and its record low −12°F (2023) (kept since 1998).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Peabody in zone 6b (ZIP code 01960).
Over a year 73% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (3.8 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); August is the sunniest month (81%) and December the cloudiest (62%).
Beverly's page has its months, frost probabilities, records by month and recent years. NOAA's grid has monthly figures only, so there are no day-by-day month pages for Peabody; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USW00054733; records: ACIS; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; sunshine: NASA POWER.
How does the climate vary across Peabody, ZIP code by ZIP code?
One ZIP code area lies wholly or partly in Peabody. Each row also names the nearest station record and its frost dates.
Source: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file and ZCTA centers; NOAA NCEI gridded and station normals, 1991-2020. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) is in the city; its figures are the grid cell at its center; frost dates are the nearest record's medians of 32°F.