Saginaw Mbs, MI Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Saginaw Mbs's primary NOAA station, SAGINAW MBS INTL AP.
The climate verdict for Saginaw Mbs
Saginaw Mbs, Michigan has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 48°F. Its climate comfort score of 59/100 (moderate) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 37% of station-mapped location scores.
- 48°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 59/100
- comfort score, above 37% of station-mapped location scores
- 32.1"
- annual precipitation · 49" snow
- 174 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Saginaw Mbs: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00014845 · Saginaw Mbs, MI 48°F mean · 32.1" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 48°F
- RANK-COOL #2,127
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Whitman
- PRCP-MID 32.1"
- SWING-WIDE 49°F
- COMF-MID 59/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,781 HDD
- STN-1 USW00014845
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Whitman, NE (+ 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 MI station list.
- Saginaw Mbs (this station) 48°F
- Cold Ellsworth, NE 48°F
- Hot Richmond, MI 48°F
- Near Whitman, NE 48°F
- Near Midland, MI 48°F
Climate Living Index · Saginaw Mbs
Saginaw Mbs: 51/100 · grade D
Saginaw Mbs publishes all six Living Index dimensions from NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals · NOAA hourly normals.
PlainClimate-derived for Saginaw Mbs, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 59/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 32.1 in · 2.9 from 35 in | 89/100 · A |
| Summer moisture balance | 59.4°F mean dew point | 68/100 · C |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 142 calendar days | 52/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 174 days/year | 45/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 48.0°F · 19.5° from 67.5°F | 32/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 49.0 inches/year | 22/100 · F |
Saginaw Mbs · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Saginaw Mbs is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 23.0°F and warmest-month mean 71.7°F place this station in continental, no dry season, hot summer climates (Dfa). Class Dfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 71.7°F
- Coldest month
- 23.0°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 Saginaw Mbs sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Saginaw Mbs's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 31st percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 43rd percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 76%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Saginaw Mbs is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Saginaw Mbs compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Saginaw Mbs's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
59 37th percentile score exceeds 37% 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
Saginaw Mbs's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 116 complete annual observations from 1898 to 2025, SAGINAW MBS INTL AP warmed at a fitted rate of 0.25°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Saginaw Mbs primary station fitted change +0.25 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30°F (-1°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 1.9" | 13.9" | 28.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 32°F (0°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 1.8" | 11.4" | 26.1 | 0.0 |
| March | 42°F (6°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 2.0" | 6.0" | 24.2 | 0.0 |
| April | 56°F (13°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 3.2" | 2.4" | 10.0 | 0.0 |
| May | 69°F (20°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 3.4" | 0.0" | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| June | 79°F (26°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 3.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.7 |
| July | 82°F (28°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 2.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.6 |
| August | 80°F (27°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 3.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.4 |
| September | 73°F (23°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 2.8" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 0.6 |
| October | 60°F (16°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 2.9" | 0.2" | 4.4 | 0.1 |
| November | 46°F (8°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 2.3" | 3.3" | 17.2 | 0.0 |
| December | 35°F (2°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 1.9" | 11.8" | 27.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 83°F around July 10, short of 90°F on every date, while 142 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 15°F near January 26.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 4, then returns to freezing around November 15, covering 142 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 January 4, when 42% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is September 2 at 31%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 133 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 12 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 22°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Saginaw Mbs.
Where Saginaw Mbs Stands Nationally
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 22°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Saginaw Mbs 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 and snowfall
Snow: 13.9"
12.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.4"
10.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.0"
10.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.4"
11.8 days with precipitation
12.0 days with precipitation
10.2 days with precipitation
9.9 days with precipitation
10.5 days with precipitation
9.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
12.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.3"
11.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.8"
12.2 days with precipitation
Saginaw Mbs spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 31% of the annual total and December through February 17%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Saginaw Mbs has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 48.7°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: August averages 3.9" and February 1.8". 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 Saginaw Mbs's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 133 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 32.1" between them, or roughly 0.24 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 Saginaw Mbs
Saginaw Mbs averages 49.0 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 38 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: 49.0 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 38 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 17
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 26
50% probability date
Growing Season
174 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,781
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
631
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Humidity & Wind
Monthly averages from hourly observations
| Month | Humidity | Wind (mph) | Clear Sky % | Overcast % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 76% | 10.5 | N/A | N/A |
| February | 73% | 10.4 | 38% | 44% |
| March | 66% | 10.7 | 40% | 36% |
| April | 62% | 10.4 | 42% | 28% |
| May | 66% | 8.8 | 44% | 23% |
| June | 67% | 8.3 | 47% | 14% |
| July | 72% | 7.3 | 48% | 14% |
| August | 74% | 7.3 | 53% | 16% |
| September | 73% | 8.6 | 48% | 25% |
| October | 72% | 10.0 | 40% | 39% |
| November | 77% | 10.6 | 27% | 51% |
| December | 77% | 10.7 | N/A | N/A |
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MI closest to Saginaw Mbs 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 (48°F here).
- Ames, IA 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Barrington, IL 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Big Bear Lake, CA 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Billings, MT 48°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (32.1" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Helena, OK 32.1" · 0.0" off
- Battle Creek, IA 32.1" · 0.0" off
- Suring, WI 32.1" · 0.0" off
- Sanborn, IA 32.1" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Saginaw Mbs
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Saginaw Mbs's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,781 annual heating degree days against 631 for cooling. Its 48.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Saginaw Mbs's frost-free season lasts about 174 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Saginaw Mbs coldest normal
January
Averaging 23°F (-5°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Saginaw Mbs typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Saginaw Mbs snow peak
January
Saginaw Mbs averages 49.0 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 Saginaw Mbs's primary station: SAGINAW MBS INTL AP (USW00014845). 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 Saginaw Mbs; 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 Saginaw Mbs 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.