Stevens Point, WI 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 Stevens Point's primary NOAA station, STEVENS PT.
The climate verdict for Stevens Point
Stevens Point, Wisconsin has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 44°F. At 49/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 18% of scores.
- 44°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 34.0"
- annual precipitation · 49" snow
- 156 days
- frost-free growing season
Stevens Point: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00478171 · Stevens Point, WI 44°F mean · 34.0" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 44°F
- RANK-COOL #1,029
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ludlow
- PRCP-MID 34.0"
- SWING-WIDE 55°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 8,037 HDD
- STN-1 USC00478171
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Ludlow, SD ( -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 WI station list.
- Stevens Point (this station) 44°F
- Cold Ludlow, SD 44°F
- Hot Menomonie, WI 44°F
- Near Ralph, SD 44°F
- Near Jordan, MT 44°F
Climate Living Index · Stevens Point
Stevens Point: 37/100 · grade F
Stevens Point publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Stevens Point, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 34.0 in · 1.0 from 35 in | 94/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 167 calendar days | 34/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 156 days/year | 30/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 48.7 inches/year | 22/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 44.1°F · 23.4° from 67.5°F | 16/100 · F |
Stevens Point · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Stevens Point is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 15.3°F and warmest-month mean 69.8°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
- 69.8°F
- Coldest month
- 15.3°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 Stevens Point sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Stevens Point's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 85%
- Among 6,861 stations, Stevens Point sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 46th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 91%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Stevens Point is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Stevens Point compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Stevens Point's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
49 18th percentile score exceeds 18% 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
Stevens Point's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 106 complete annual observations from 1894 to 2025, STEVENS PT warmed at a fitted rate of 0.10°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Stevens Point primary station fitted change +0.10 °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 | 24°F (-5°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 15°F (-9°C) | 1.2" | 11.6" | 30.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 28°F (-2°C) | 9°F (-13°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 1.1" | 11.5" | 27.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 40°F (4°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 1.8" | 6.9" | 26.2 | 0.0 |
| April | 54°F (12°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 3.4" | 4.2" | 14.7 | 0.0 |
| May | 67°F (19°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 4.1" | 0.0" | 1.9 | 0.2 |
| June | 76°F (24°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 5.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| July | 80°F (27°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.8 |
| August | 78°F (25°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| September | 70°F (21°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 3.6" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| October | 57°F (14°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 2.7" | 0.3" | 9.6 | 0.0 |
| November | 42°F (5°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 1.9" | 1.9" | 23.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 29°F (-2°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 1.5" | 12.3" | 29.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 80°F around July 16, short of 90°F on every date, while 167 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 6°F near January 25.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 14, then returns to freezing around October 31, covering 167 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 June 6, when 41% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is February 19 at 30%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 125 wet dates a year.
The widest day
May 2 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 Stevens Point.
Where Stevens Point Stands Nationally
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 22°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Stevens Point 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: 11.6"
9.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.5"
8.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.9"
9.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.2"
11.5 days with precipitation
12.2 days with precipitation
12.2 days with precipitation
11.0 days with precipitation
10.0 days with precipitation
10.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
10.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.9"
8.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 12.3"
10.0 days with precipitation
Stevens Point runs a summer-peaked wet season
37% of Stevens Point's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is June at 5.0", on a wide 54.5°F gap between its warmest and coldest month. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: June, May, July, taking 38% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: February at 1.1".
- Winter share: 11% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
How Stevens Point's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 125 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 34.0" between them, or roughly 0.27 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 Stevens Point
Stevens Point averages 48.7 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 34 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: 48.7 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 34 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 14% 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 7
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 4
50% probability date
Growing Season
156 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,037
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
451
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WI closest to Stevens Point 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 (44°F here).
- Aberdeen, SD 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Belfast, ME 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Bushnell, NE 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Cambridge, MN 44°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (34.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Harbor Beach, MI 34.0" · 0.0" off
- Saginaw, MI 34.0" · 0.0" off
- Winnebago, MN 34.0" · 0.0" off
- Massena, NY 33.9" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Stevens Point
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Stevens Point's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,037 annual heating degree days against 451 for cooling. Its 54.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Stevens Point's frost-free season lasts about 156 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. Stevens Point coldest normal
January
Averaging 15°F (-9°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Stevens Point typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Stevens Point snow peak
December
Stevens Point averages 48.7 inches of snow a year, with December 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 Stevens Point's primary station: STEVENS PT (USC00478171). 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 5577200). Match rule for Stevens Point: 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 Stevens Point 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.