Pownal, VT Climate: Temperature 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 Pownal's primary NOAA station, POWNAL 1 NE.
The climate verdict for Pownal
Pownal, Vermont has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 46°F. July is the warmest month at 69°F and January the coldest at 21°F.
- 46°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 154 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Pownal: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00436500 · Pownal, VT 46°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 46°F
- RANK-COOL #1,509
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Norwich
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 48°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 7,284 HDD
- STN-1 USC00436500
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Norwich, NY (+ 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 VT station list.
- Pownal (this station) 46°F
- Cold Flaming Gorge, UT 46°F
- Hot Trenton, UT 46°F
- Near Norwich, NY 46°F
- Near Salamanca, NY 46°F
Climate Living Index · Pownal
Pownal: 31/100 · grade F
Pownal publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Pownal, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 161 calendar days | 39/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 154 days/year | 28/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 45.9°F · 21.6° from 67.5°F | 23/100 · F |
Pownal · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Pownal sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Pownal are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 78%
- Among 6,861 stations, Pownal sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 70%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Pownal is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31°F (-1°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | N/A | 28.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 33°F (1°C) | 13°F (-10°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | N/A | 26.7 | 0.0 |
| March | 42°F (5°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 32°F (0°C) | N/A | 26.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 56°F (13°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 44°F (7°C) | N/A | 15.9 | 0.0 |
| May | 68°F (20°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 56°F (13°C) | N/A | 1.8 | 0.1 |
| June | 75°F (24°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 64°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| July | 81°F (27°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 69°F (20°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| August | 78°F (26°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| September | 72°F (22°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 60°F (16°C) | N/A | 1.0 | 0.1 |
| October | 59°F (15°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 49°F (9°C) | N/A | 9.1 | 0.0 |
| November | 47°F (8°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 38°F (3°C) | N/A | 19.8 | 0.0 |
| December | 36°F (2°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | N/A | 27.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 81°F around July 16, short of 90°F on every date, while 161 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 11°F near January 24.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 13, then returns to freezing around November 5, covering 161 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
May 10 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 Pownal.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 8
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 7
50% probability date
Growing Season
154 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,284
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
353
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside VT closest to Pownal 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 (46°F here).
- Bradford, PA 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Elkader, IA 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Milan, MN 46°F · 0.0°F off
- New Ulm, MN 46°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Pownal's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Pownal's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,284 annual heating degree days against 353 for cooling. Its 47.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Pownal's frost-free season lasts about 154 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 Pownal's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 47.5°F. The annual average is 46°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Pownal'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 Pownal'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 Pownal, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Pownal's climate
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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 Pownal's primary station: POWNAL 1 NE (USC00436500). 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 a census-designated place (GEOID 5056950), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Pownal: 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 Pownal 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.