St Albans Radio, VT Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from St Albans Radio's primary NOAA station, ST ALBANS RADIO.
The climate verdict for St Albans Radio
St Albans Radio, Vermont has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 45°F. At 44/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 10% of scores.
- 45°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 38.3"
- annual precipitation · 80" snow
- 164 days
- growing season, frost-free days
St Albans Radio: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00437032 · St Albans Radio, VT 45°F mean · 38.3" 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 #1,235
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Marinette
- PRCP-MID 38.3"
- SWING-WIDE 53°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,810 HDD
- STN-1 USC00437032
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Marinette, WI (+ 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.
- St Albans Radio (this station) 45°F
- Cold Oconto, WI 45°F
- Hot Sand Creek, MT 45°F
- Near Marinette, WI 45°F
- Near Shell, WY 45°F
Climate Living Index · St Albans Radio
St Albans Radio: 38/100 · grade F
St Albans Radio publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for St Albans Radio, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 38.3 in · 3.3 from 35 in | 88/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 157 calendar days | 41/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 164 days/year | 37/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 44.7°F · 22.8° from 67.5°F | 19/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 79.9 inches/year | 6/100 · F |
St Albans Radio · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
St Albans Radio is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 16.7°F and warmest-month mean 70.1°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
- 70.1°F
- Coldest month
- 16.7°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 St Albans Radio sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for St Albans Radio's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 82%
- Among 6,861 stations, St Albans Radio sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 54th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 89%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for St Albans Radio is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How St Albans Radio compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
St Albans Radio's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
44 10th percentile score exceeds 10% 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 | 25°F (-4°C) | 8°F (-13°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 2.1" | 16.9" | 29.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 29°F (-2°C) | 10°F (-12°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 1.9" | 18.3" | 26.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 37°F (3°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 2.6" | 16.2" | 26.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 52°F (11°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 3.2" | 6.2" | 12.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 66°F (19°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 3.2" | 0.1" | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| June | 74°F (24°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 4.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.2 |
| July | 79°F (26°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 4.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| August | 77°F (25°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 3.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| September | 69°F (21°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 3.9" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| October | 56°F (13°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 3.9" | 1.2" | 7.1 | 0.0 |
| November | 44°F (7°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 2.9" | 5.0" | 17.2 | 0.0 |
| December | 32°F (0°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 2.6" | 16.0" | 27.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 80°F around July 15, short of 90°F on every date, while 157 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 7°F near January 22.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 12, then returns to freezing around November 8, covering 157 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 5, when 43% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is September 1 at 32%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 137 wet dates a year.
The widest day
May 3 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 20°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for St Albans Radio.
Where St Albans Radio Stands Nationally
Among the steadiest day-night climates ranked: even the widest normal daily swing holds to roughly 20°F.
St Albans Radio 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: 16.9"
13.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 18.3"
10.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 16.2"
10.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.2"
11.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
11.2 days with precipitation
12.3 days with precipitation
12.4 days with precipitation
10.9 days with precipitation
10.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.2"
11.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.0"
11.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 16.0"
13.1 days with precipitation
St Albans Radio 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. St Albans Radio has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 53.4°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: June averages 4.1" and February 1.9". The three wettest months together take 32% 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 St Albans Radio's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 137 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 38.3" between them, or roughly 0.28 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 St Albans Radio
St Albans Radio averages 79.9 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 40 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: 79.9 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 40 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 21% 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 12
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 1
50% probability date
Growing Season
164 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,810
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
449
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside VT closest to St Albans Radio 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).
- Arlington, SD 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Buena Vista, CO 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Canby, MN 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Evergreen, CO 45°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (38.3" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Eau Claire, MI 38.3" · 0.0" off
- Farmingdale, NY 38.3" · 0.0" off
- Morrison, IL 38.3" · 0.0" off
- Caledonia, MN 38.3" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define St Albans Radio
heating led · moderate · mid swing
St Albans Radio's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,810 annual heating degree days against 449 for cooling. Its 53.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
St Albans Radio's frost-free season lasts about 164 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. St Albans Radio 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. St Albans Radio typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. St Albans Radio snow peak
February
St Albans Radio averages 79.9 inches of snow a year, with February 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 St Albans Radio's primary station: ST ALBANS RADIO (USC00437032). 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 St Albans Radio; 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 St Albans Radio 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.