Youngstown, Ohio climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Youngstown's normal year runs from 19°F January nights to 83°F July afternoons, with 41.2 inches of precipitation and 68 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 9.9°C, January lows of −7°C, July highs of 28°C, 1,046 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationYoungstown Regional Airport
- Station IDUSW00014852
- Location41.25°N 80.67°W
- Elevation1,180 ft (360 m)
- From the center11 miles
- Population59,123
On October 23, the normal high in Youngstown is 59°F and the normal low 40°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 43%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Youngstown.
- Jan 34° 19°
- Feb 37° 21°
- Mar 47° 28°
- Apr 60° 38°
- May 71° 48°
- Jun 79° 56°
- Jul 83° 60°
- Aug 81° 59°
- Sep 74° 52°
- Oct 62° 42°
- Nov 50° 33°
- Dec 39° 26°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
What is the weather like in Youngstown each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 83°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 19°F. The most precipitation falls in July (4.27 in), the least in February (2.52 in).
Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 34°F | 19°F | 26.8°F | 3.03 | 19.6 | 19 | <1 | 27 | 9 h 30 min |
| February | 37°F | 21°F | 29.0°F | 2.52 | 15.1 | 16 | <1 | 24 | 10 h 40 min |
| March | 47°F | 28°F | 37.2°F | 3.21 | 10.5 | 15 | <1 | 22 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 60°F | 38°F | 49.1°F | 3.75 | 2.6 | 15 | <1 | 9 | 13 h 20 min |
| May | 71°F | 48°F | 59.3°F | 3.72 | 0.0 | 14 | <1 | 1 | 14 h 30 min |
| June | 79°F | 56°F | 67.5°F | 3.90 | 0.0 | 13 | 1 | <1 | 15 h 10 min |
| July | 83°F | 60°F | 71.5°F | 4.27 | 0.0 | 11 | 4 | <1 | 14 h 50 min |
| August | 81°F | 59°F | 69.9°F | 3.48 | 0.0 | 11 | 2 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| September | 74°F | 52°F | 63.2°F | 3.84 | 0.0 | 10 | 1 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 62°F | 42°F | 52.2°F | 3.34 | 0.7 | 13 | <1 | 4 | 11 h 10 min |
| November | 50°F | 33°F | 41.5°F | 2.96 | 4.5 | 14 | <1 | 15 | 10 h |
| December | 39°F | 26°F | 32.1°F | 3.17 | 14.8 | 18 | <1 | 25 | 9 h 10 min |
| Year (annual) | 60°F | 40°F | 49.9°F | 41.19 | 67.8 | 168 | 8 | 127 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1°C | −7°C | −2.9°C | 77 mm | 50 cm |
| February | 3°C | −6°C | −1.7°C | 64 mm | 38 cm |
| March | 8°C | −2°C | 2.9°C | 82 mm | 27 cm |
| April | 16°C | 3°C | 9.5°C | 95 mm | 7 cm |
| May | 22°C | 9°C | 15.2°C | 94 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 26°C | 13°C | 19.7°C | 99 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 28°C | 16°C | 21.9°C | 108 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 27°C | 15°C | 21.1°C | 88 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 24°C | 11°C | 17.3°C | 98 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 17°C | 6°C | 11.2°C | 85 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 10°C | 1°C | 5.3°C | 75 mm | 11 cm |
| December | 4°C | −4°C | 0.1°C | 81 mm | 38 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00014852; annual normals. Wet days: 0.01 inch or more; 90°F days and freezing nights: NOAA's day counts. Daylight: sunrise to sunset on the 15th, computed from the latitude.
When is the best weather to visit Youngstown?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in May, June, July, August and September. Of those, September has the fewest days with rain (10).
That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00014852.
When is the last frost in Youngstown?
In Youngstown, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after May 1 in half of years and after May 20 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 17 in half of years and before October 1 in one year in ten.
Frost-free in half of yearsFrost in 1 to 9 years out of 10Frost most years
- Last spring frost, half of years after
- May 11 year in 10 after May 20; 9 in 10 after April 16
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- October 171 year in 10 before October 1; 9 in 10 before November 1
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 167 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 194 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 20 in half of springs and before November 1 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Youngstown in zone 6a across its 9 ZIP code areas (6a in 44505, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Youngstown's NOAA station is in zone 6b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches −3°F (30 complete years); the map interpolates between stations and terrain, so the station and the ZIP area can differ by half a zone.
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Ohio · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USW00014852; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; the station zone: ACIS daily lows, 1991-2020. A 10% date means one year in ten has a frost after it in spring or before it in autumn.
What hardiness zone is each Youngstown ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Youngstown's 9 ZIP code areas are all in zone 6a. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.
Source: USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; ZIP areas in the place: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) lies in the place.
How hot and how cold does it get in Youngstown?
In a normal year in Youngstown, 8 days a year reach 90°F, 127 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 168 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 8a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- fewer than 1a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 127a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 41high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 168a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 22a normal year
The highest temperature in Youngstown's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1897) is 103°F, on July 10, 1936; the lowest is −22°F, on January 19, 1994.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2011, with 54.01 in; the snowiest season is 2010–11, with 118.7 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00014852; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), NWS threaded record YNGthr. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How humid and windy is Youngstown, and how clear are its skies?
The summer (June-August) dew point averages 60°F. The muggiest month is July, with an average dew point of 61°F; the driest air comes in January (19°F). February is the windiest month (9.7 mph on average), and August has the most clear or nearly clear hours (41%).
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Afternoon humidity | Wind | Clear or few clouds | Overcast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 19°F | 73% | 63% | 9.5 mph | 16% | 65% |
| February | 23°F | 70% | 59% | 9.7 mph | 20% | 58% |
| March | 31°F | 63% | 49% | 9.6 mph | 22% | 51% |
| April | 40°F | 61% | 45% | 9.0 mph | 28% | 39% |
| May | 53°F | 70% | 52% | 7.5 mph | 27% | 36% |
| June | 60°F | 71% | 52% | 6.8 mph | 34% | 23% |
| July | 61°F | 73% | 53% | 6.5 mph | 32% | 24% |
| August | 59°F | 75% | 53% | 6.6 mph | 41% | 23% |
| September | 49°F | 75% | 55% | 7.6 mph | 36% | 31% |
| October | 37°F | 70% | 55% | 8.7 mph | 21% | 53% |
| November | 29°F | 73% | 64% | 9.5 mph | 11% | 67% |
| December | 23°F | 76% | 68% | 9.6 mph | 10% | 72% |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 hourly normals, station USW00014852. Monthly averages of all hours; afternoon humidity at 3 p.m. local standard time; sky as the share of hours NOAA's observations rate clear or few clouds (a dash where NOAA publishes no sky value).
How sunny is Youngstown?
Over a year 68% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Youngstown, 3.6 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (77%) and December the cloudiest (47%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 449th (with 2 others) in sunshine.
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 51% | 1.4 |
| February | 57% | 2.3 |
| March | 60% | 3.3 |
| April | 65% | 4.5 |
| May | 69% | 5.3 |
| June | 74% | 5.9 |
| July | 77% | 5.9 |
| August | 77% | 5.2 |
| September | 74% | 4.2 |
| October | 64% | 2.7 |
| November | 61% | 1.8 |
| December | 47% | 1.1 |
Source: NASA POWER solar climatology, 2001-2020 (CERES SYN1deg). Satellite-based, for the 1-degree cell (about 100 km across) around the station, so it describes the area rather than the airport.
How much heating and cooling does Youngstown need?
A normal year in Youngstown brings 6,090 heating degree days, 13% more than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 633 cooling degree days, 30% fewer than the median (908). Seven months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 2,840 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,184 | 0 |
| February | 1,008 | 0 |
| March | 863 | 1 |
| April | 484 | 7 |
| May | 222 | 43 |
| June | 52 | 127 |
| July | 9 | 211 |
| August | 17 | 170 |
| September | 119 | 65 |
| October | 408 | 9 |
| November | 705 | 0 |
| December | 1,020 | 0 |
| Year (annual) | 6,090 | 633 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00014852. A degree day is one degree of a day's mean temperature below 65°F (heating) or above it (cooling); utilities use them to estimate energy use.
Has Youngstown been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 49.6°F, 0.3°F below the 1991-2020 normal of 49.9°F. 4 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 52.1°F | +2.2°F | 45.22 | 37.4 |
| 2022 | 50.5°F | +0.6°F | 37.27 | 58.4 |
| 2023 | 52.5°F | +2.6°F | 36.53 | 20.1 |
| 2024 | 53.4°F | +3.5°F | 43.60 | 37.1 |
| 2025 | 49.6°F | −0.3°F | 39.93 | 57.2 |
Over 85 complete years from 1935 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.0°F per century (+0.11°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00014852; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Youngstown's climate compare?
Youngstown is warmer than 13 of the other 98 places with their own NOAA record in Ohio, and wetter than 42. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 49.9°F is warmer than 40%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Youngstown is Dfb: continental, no dry season, warm summer. What the classes mean.
Places with the most similar year elsewhere
Measured month by month on the normal high, low and precipitation, among places of 20,000 or more people in other states:
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for every station PlainClimate covers. Similarity: the root-mean-square difference of the 36 monthly figures, precipitation weighted so an inch counts like 6°F.
Which places near Youngstown share this climate record?
15 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.
- Hermitage, PA15,839 people · 12 mi E
- Sharon, PA12,744 people · 9 mi E
- Girard, OH9,454 people · 6 mi S
- Farrell, PA4,142 people · 10 mi E
- Sharpsville, PA4,127 people · 10 mi E
- Reynolds Heights, PA1,865 people · 15 mi NE
- Churchill, OH1,775 people · 6 mi S
- Brookfield Center, OH1,225 people · 6 mi E
- New Bedford, PA936 people · 15 mi SE
- West Middlesex, PA794 people · 13 mi SE
- Wheatland, PA566 people · 10 mi SE
- Clark, PA559 people · 14 mi E
- Vienna Center, OH515 people · 2 mi SE
- Pulaski, PA86 people · 16 mi SE
- Yankee Lake, OH73 people · 6 mi E
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
Questions about Youngstown's climate
What is the coldest month in Youngstown?
January, with a normal high of 34°F and a normal low of 19°F. The warmest is July (83°F by day, 60°F at night).
Does it snow in Youngstown?
Yes: 68 inches in a normal year, falling on 55 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in January (19.6 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Youngstown?
July, with 4.27 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is February with 2.52 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Youngstown in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Youngstown in zone 6a across its 9 ZIP code areas (6a in 44505, the largest). By the same method at Youngstown's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches −3°F (30 years, 1991-2020): zone 6b.
How late can frost come in Youngstown?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after May 1; in one year in ten it comes after May 20. Waiting until May 20 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
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- Mosquito Creek Lake, OH6 miles from this station, 49.2°F a year
- Warren, OH8 miles from this station, 48.9°F a year
- Hiram, OH18 miles from this station, 48.1°F a year
- Jamestown, PA20 miles from this station, 48.3°F a year
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