Peshtigo, 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 Peshtigo's primary NOAA station, PESHTIGO.
The climate verdict for Peshtigo
Peshtigo, 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
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 33.4"
- annual precipitation · 49" snow
- 147 days
- frost-free growing season
Peshtigo: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00476510 · Peshtigo, WI 44°F mean · 33.4" 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 ≈ Powder Rvr
- PRCP-MID 33.4"
- SWING-WIDE 51°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 8,068 HDD
- STN-1 USC00476510
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Powder Rvr, WY (+ 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.
- Peshtigo (this station) 44°F
- Hot Cornell, MI 44°F
- Near Powder Rvr, WY 44°F
- Near Rock Springs, WY 44°F
- Near Lowville, NY 44°F
Climate Living Index · Peshtigo
Peshtigo: 34/100 · grade F
Peshtigo publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Peshtigo, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 33.4 in · 1.6 from 35 in | 92/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 174 calendar days | 29/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 147 days/year | 23/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 48.9 inches/year | 22/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 43.7°F · 23.8° from 67.5°F | 15/100 · F |
Peshtigo · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Peshtigo is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 17.4°F and warmest-month mean 68.5°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
- 68.5°F
- Coldest month
- 17.4°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 Peshtigo sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Peshtigo'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, Peshtigo sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 45th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 84%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Peshtigo is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Peshtigo compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Peshtigo'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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26°F (-4°C) | 9°F (-13°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 1.6" | 13.5" | 30.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 29°F (-2°C) | 10°F (-12°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 1.2" | 10.6" | 27.6 | 0.0 |
| March | 39°F (4°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 1.9" | 6.3" | 26.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 52°F (11°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 3.0" | 4.4" | 20.0 | 0.0 |
| May | 65°F (18°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 3.7" | 0.1" | 3.5 | 0.2 |
| June | 75°F (24°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| July | 80°F (27°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 3.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| August | 78°F (26°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 3.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| September | 71°F (21°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 3.5" | 0.0" | 0.9 | 0.1 |
| October | 57°F (14°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 3.4" | 0.1" | 11.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 43°F (6°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 2.3" | 2.0" | 23.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 31°F (-1°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 1.9" | 11.9" | 29.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 81°F around July 20, short of 90°F on every date, while 174 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 8°F near January 28.
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 May 26, when 38% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is March 8 at 23%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 114 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 5 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 23°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Peshtigo.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 13.5"
8.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.6"
6.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.3"
7.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.4"
9.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
12.3 days with precipitation
10.9 days with precipitation
11.0 days with precipitation
9.5 days with precipitation
9.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
11.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.0"
7.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.9"
8.8 days with precipitation
Peshtigo spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 33% of the annual total and December through February 14%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Peshtigo has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 51.1°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: June averages 3.8" and February 1.2". The three wettest months together take 33% 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 Peshtigo's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 113 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 33.4" between them, or roughly 0.29 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 Peshtigo
Peshtigo averages 48.9 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 25 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: 48.9 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 25 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 15% 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 5
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 11
50% probability date
Growing Season
147 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,068
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
348
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WI closest to Peshtigo 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).
- Baggs, WY 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Beach, ND 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Benson, MN 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Cheboygan, MI 44°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (33.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- St Ignace, MI 33.4" · 0.0" off
- Bridgeport, TX 33.3" · 0.0" off
- Sandstone, MN 33.3" · 0.0" off
- Fort Calhoun, NE 33.4" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Peshtigo
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Peshtigo's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,068 annual heating degree days against 348 for cooling. Its 51.1°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 147 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. Peshtigo coldest normal
January
Averaging 17°F (-8°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Peshtigo typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Peshtigo snow peak
January
Peshtigo averages 48.9 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 Peshtigo's primary station: PESHTIGO (USC00476510). 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 5562175). Match rule for Peshtigo: 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 Peshtigo 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.