Pulaski, NY Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Pulaski's primary NOAA station, PULASKI.
The climate verdict for Pulaski
Water is the standout signal in Pulaski, New York: 48.0 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 45°F. At 52/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 24% of scores.
- 45°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 52/100
- comfort score, above 24% of station-mapped location scores
- 48.0"
- yearly precipitation total
- 157 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Pulaski: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00306867 · Pulaski, NY 45°F mean · 48.0" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 45°F
- RANK-COOL #1,166
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Jackpot
- PRCP-MID 48.0"
- SWING-WIDE 48°F
- COMF-LOW 52/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,698 HDD
- STN-1 USC00306867
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Jackpot, NV (+ 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 NY station list.
- Pulaski (this station) 45°F
- Hot Rapelje, MT 45°F
- Near Jackpot, NV 45°F
- Near Great Falls, MT 45°F
- Near Sundance, UT 45°F
Climate Living Index · Pulaski
Pulaski: 34/100 · grade F
Pulaski publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Pulaski, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 52/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 48.0 in · 13.0 from 35 in | 54/100 · D |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 161 calendar days | 39/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 157 days/year | 31/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 44.6°F · 22.9° from 67.5°F | 18/100 · F |
Pulaski · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Pulaski is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 19.9°F and warmest-month mean 67.9°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
- 67.9°F
- Coldest month
- 19.9°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 Pulaski sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Pulaski's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 83%
- Among 6,861 stations, Pulaski sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 24% wettest
- Pulaski's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 73%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Pulaski is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Pulaski compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Pulaski's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
52 24th percentile score exceeds 24% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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 | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29°F (-2°C) | 11°F (-12°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 4.2" | 30.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 31°F (-1°C) | 13°F (-10°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 3.3" | 27.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 39°F (4°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 3.0" | 27.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 51°F (11°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 3.9" | 19.2 | 0.0 |
| May | 65°F (18°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 3.9" | 4.2 | 0.2 |
| June | 73°F (23°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 3.8" | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| July | 79°F (26°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 3.7" | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| August | 77°F (25°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 4.5" | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| September | 71°F (22°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 4.0" | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| October | 58°F (14°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 5.1" | 4.2 | 0.0 |
| November | 46°F (8°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 4.1" | 18.8 | 0.0 |
| December | 34°F (1°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 4.4" | 26.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 79°F around July 21, short of 90°F on every date, while 161 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 10°F near January 17.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 16, then returns to freezing around November 8, 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
September 13 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 Pulaski.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Pulaski spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 25% of the annual total and December through February 25%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Pulaski has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 48°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: October averages 5.1" and March 3.0". The three wettest months together take 29% 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 14
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 10
50% probability date
Growing Season
157 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,698
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
305
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NY closest to Pulaski 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 (45°F here).
- Bath, ME 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Darby, MT 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Great Falls, MT 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Jackpot, NV 45°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (48.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Brenham, TX 48.0" · 0.0" off
- Elizabethton, TN 48.0" · 0.0" off
- Vernonia, OR 48.0" · 0.0" off
- Beverly, MA 48.0" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Pulaski's climate pattern fits together
heating led · wet · mid swing
Pulaski's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,698 annual heating degree days against 305 for cooling. Its 48.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Pulaski's frost-free season lasts about 157 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 Pulaski's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 48.0°F. The annual average is 45°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Alongside its heating load, Pulaski carries 48.0 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. That distinction matters because a wet annual total can arrive as rain, snow, or a mixture at different times.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Pulaski'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 Pulaski, 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 Pulaski's primary station: PULASKI (USC00306867). 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 3659960). Match rule for Pulaski: 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 Pulaski 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.