Ponca City Muni, OK Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Ponca City Muni's primary NOAA station, PONCA CITY MUNI AP.
The climate verdict for Ponca City Muni
Ponca City Muni, Oklahoma has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 59°F. It scores 80/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 76% of them.
- 59°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 80/100
- comfort score, above 76% of station-mapped location scores
- 33.6"
- precipitation, annual total
- 200 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Ponca City Muni: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00013969 · Ponca City Muni, OK 59°F mean · 33.6" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-TOP · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 59°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,009
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Coldwater
- PRCP-MID 33.6"
- SWING-WIDE 47°F
- COMF-TOP 80/100
- LOAD-HEAT 3,958 HDD
- STN-1 USW00013969
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Coldwater, KS ( -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 OK station list.
- Hot Marshall, OK 60°F
- Ponca City (this station) 59°F
- Cold Woodward, OK 59°F
- Near Coldwater, KS 59°F
- Near Lahoma, OK 59°F
Climate Living Index · Ponca City Muni
Ponca City Muni: 65/100 · grade C
Ponca City Muni publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Ponca City Muni, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 80/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 33.6 in · 1.4 from 35 in | 93/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 59.4°F · 8.1° from 67.5°F | 74/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 200 days/year | 64/100 · C |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 160 calendar days | 39/100 · F |
Ponca City Muni · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Ponca City Muni is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfa
Coldest-month mean 35.9°F and warmest-month mean 82.4°F place this station in temperate, no dry season, hot summer climates (Cfa). Class Cfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Cfa
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 82.4°F
- Coldest month
- 35.9°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 Ponca City Muni sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Ponca City Muni's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 27% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Ponca City Muni sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 45th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 67th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Ponca City Muni compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Ponca City Muni's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
80 Top 24% score exceeds 76% 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%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Below this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). This entry sits in this band.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Ponca City Muni's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 74 complete annual observations from 1948 to 2025, PONCA CITY MUNI AP warmed at a fitted rate of 0.09°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Ponca City Muni primary station fitted change +0.09 °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 | 47°F (8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 1.0" | 25.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 52°F (11°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 1.1" | 18.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 62°F (17°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 2.2" | 9.8 | 0.1 |
| April | 71°F (21°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 3.8" | 2.2 | 0.6 |
| May | 79°F (26°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 5.1" | 0.0 | 3.6 |
| June | 88°F (31°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 78°F (25°C) | 4.7" | 0.0 | 14.8 |
| July | 93°F (34°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 82°F (28°C) | 3.7" | 0.0 | 23.3 |
| August | 92°F (33°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 3.3" | 0.0 | 20.9 |
| September | 84°F (29°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 2.7" | 0.0 | 9.0 |
| October | 73°F (23°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 3.1" | 1.7 | 1.1 |
| November | 60°F (15°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 1.6" | 10.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 49°F (9°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 1.3" | 21.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Ponca City Muni works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 94°F by July 22 and hold at or above 90°F on 68 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 92 dates, bottoming at 24°F around January 16.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 22 through August 28, covering 68 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 13 to October 22.
This counts calendar dates whose 1991–2020 normal high reaches 90°F. It is a smaller number than the 90°F+ day counts in the monthly table above, which measure how often the threshold was actually crossed in a typical year. A date can average 88°F and still exceed 90°F in half of all years.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into February 27, then returns to freezing around November 28, covering 92 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 10, when 33% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 17 at 15%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 82 wet dates a year.
The widest day
March 28 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 Ponca City Muni.
Where Ponca City Muni Stands Nationally
Heat is a defining feature of the normals calendar — the normal daily high reaches 90°F on roughly 68 days a year, more than four out of five ranked stations record.
Ponca City Muni earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
4.8 days with precipitation
4.9 days with precipitation
6.9 days with precipitation
8.2 days with precipitation
10.4 days with precipitation
8.7 days with precipitation
7.4 days with precipitation
7.5 days with precipitation
6.9 days with precipitation
6.8 days with precipitation
5.1 days with precipitation
4.6 days with precipitation
Ponca City Muni spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 35% of the annual total and December through February 10%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Ponca City Muni has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 46.5°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 5.1" and January 1.0". The three wettest months together take 40% 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.
When it rains in Ponca City Muni, it arrives in quantity
33.6" of precipitation falls across only about 82 wet days here, averaging 0.41 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 82 a year, 23% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.41 inches
- Most wet days
- May, about 10
- Fewest wet days
- December, about 5
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 27
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 10
50% probability date
Growing Season
200 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,958
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,940
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside OK closest to Ponca City Muni 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 (59°F here).
- Levelland, TX 59°F · 0.0°F off
- Morton, TX 59°F · 0.0°F off
- Redwood City, CA 59°F · 0.0°F off
- Siler City, NC 59°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (33.6" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- New Braunfels, TX 33.6" · 0.0" off
- Manchester, MI 33.6" · 0.0" off
- Mcpherson, KS 33.6" · 0.0" off
- Avon, NY 33.6" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Ponca City Muni's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Ponca City Muni's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 3,958 annual heating degree days against 1,940 for cooling. Its 46.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Ponca City Muni's frost-free season lasts about 200 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 Ponca City Muni's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 46.5°F. The annual average is 59°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Ponca City Muni's 33.6 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 Ponca City Muni'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 Ponca City Muni, 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 Ponca City Muni's primary station: PONCA CITY MUNI AP (USW00013969). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Ponca City Muni; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Ponca City Muni 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.