Unionville, MO Climate: Temperature & Rain 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 Unionville's primary NOAA station, UNIONVILLE.
The climate verdict for Unionville
Unionville, Missouri has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 51°F. Its climate comfort score of 63/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 46% of station-mapped location scores.
- 51°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 63/100
- comfort score, above 46% of station-mapped location scores
- 41.9"
- annual precipitation · 29" snow
- 188 days
- frost-free growing season
Unionville: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00238523 · Unionville, MO 51°F mean · 41.9" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 51°F
- RANK-MID #3,019
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Princeville
- PRCP-MID 41.9"
- SWING-WIDE 52°F
- COMF-MID 63/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,103 HDD
- STN-1 USC00238523
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Princeville, IL ( -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 MO station list.
- Unionville (this station) 51°F
- Cold Ottumwa Industr…, IA 51°F
- Near Princeville, IL 51°F
- Near La Harpe, IL 51°F
- Near Morris, IL 51°F
Climate Living Index · Unionville
Unionville: 54/100 · grade D
Unionville publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Unionville, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 63/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 41.9 in · 6.9 from 35 in | 76/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 188 days/year | 56/100 · C |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 135 calendar days | 56/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 50.9°F · 16.6° from 67.5°F | 44/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 28.7 inches/year | 40/100 · D |
Unionville · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Unionville is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 23.5°F and warmest-month mean 75.5°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
- 75.5°F
- Coldest month
- 23.5°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 Unionville sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Unionville's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 44th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 62nd percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 86%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Unionville is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Unionville compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Unionville's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
63 46th percentile score exceeds 46% 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%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Unionville's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 79 complete annual observations from 1900 to 2017, UNIONVILLE warmed at a fitted rate of 0.08°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Unionville primary station fitted change +0.08 °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 | 32°F (0°C) | 15°F (-10°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 1.4" | 6.0" | 29.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 38°F (3°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 1.7" | 9.9" | 26.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 50°F (10°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 2.6" | 3.0" | 20.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 62°F (17°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 3.8" | 1.2" | 7.2 | 0.0 |
| May | 71°F (22°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 6.0" | 0.4" | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| June | 81°F (27°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 5.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.0 |
| July | 86°F (30°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 4.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 8.4 |
| August | 84°F (29°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 5.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 6.4 |
| September | 76°F (25°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 3.5" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 1.3 |
| October | 64°F (18°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 3.1" | 0.5" | 5.2 | 0.1 |
| November | 50°F (10°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 2.3" | 1.9" | 17.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 37°F (3°C) | 20°F (-6°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 1.9" | 5.8" | 27.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 86°F around July 23, short of 90°F on every date, while 135 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 14°F near January 19.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 24, then returns to freezing around November 11, covering 135 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 May 26, when 39% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 24 at 21%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 102 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 7 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 Unionville.
Where Unionville Stands Nationally
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 23°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Unionville 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: 6.0"
6.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 9.9"
7.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.0"
8.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.2"
10.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
11.9 days with precipitation
10.0 days with precipitation
8.6 days with precipitation
9.0 days with precipitation
7.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.5"
8.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.9"
6.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.8"
7.3 days with precipitation
Unionville runs a summer-peaked wet season
37% of Unionville'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 May at 6.0", on a wide 52°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: May, June, August, taking 40% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: January at 1.4".
- Winter share: 12% 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.
When it rains in Unionville, it arrives in quantity
41.9" of precipitation falls across only about 102 wet days here, averaging 0.41 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 102 a year, 28% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.41 inches
- Most wet days
- May, about 12
- Fewest wet days
- January, about 6
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Winter brings real snow to Unionville
Unionville averages 28.7 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 13 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: 28.7 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 13 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 7% 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 22
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 17
50% probability date
Growing Season
188 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,103
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
986
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MO closest to Unionville 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 (51°F here).
- Battle Ground, WA 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Belington, WV 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Blaine, WA 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Bland, VA 51°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (41.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Concord, NH 42.0" · 0.0" off
- Newport, NH 42.0" · 0.0" off
- Richardson, TX 41.9" · 0.0" off
- Elyria, OH 42.0" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Unionville
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Unionville's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,103 annual heating degree days against 986 for cooling. Its 52.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Unionville's frost-free season lasts about 188 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. Unionville coldest normal
January
Averaging 24°F (-5°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Unionville typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Unionville snow peak
February
Unionville averages 28.7 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 Unionville's primary station: UNIONVILLE (USC00238523). 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 2975166). Match rule for Unionville: 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 Unionville 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.