United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Houghton.

August leads for comfortable weather in Houghton: typically 23.4°C by day, 12.7°C at night, with 64 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high23.4°C

Typical low12.7°C

Rain in August64 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · June

87climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

51climate match

Outdoors

June

June · September · August

83climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 87 — days reach only -5.4°C, 29° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

5-5.4° / -11.8°

Feb

5-4.1° / -12.2°

Mar

51° / -8.1°

Apr

127.6° / -1.5°

May

4515.9° / 4.7°

Jun

7221.4° / 9.8°

Jul

8624.1° / 13°

Aug

8723.4° / 12.7°

Sep

5818.7° / 8.7°

Oct

2210.9° / 2.8°

Nov

53.3° / -3°

Dec

5-2.4° / -8.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Houghton — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 23 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-5.4°C	-11.8°C	43 mm	10.1	2.5°C	8 h 53	5	Strong coverage
February	-4.1°C	-12.2°C	24 mm	6	1.5°C	10 h 12	5	Strong coverage
March	1°C	-8.1°C	34 mm	5.9	1.2°C	11 h 45	5	Strong coverage
April	7.6°C	-1.5°C	44 mm	6.6	1.9°C	13 h 32	12	Strong coverage
May	15.9°C	4.7°C	68 mm	8.2	3.4°C	15 h 02	45	Strong coverage
June	21.4°C	9.8°C	72 mm	7.8	5.4°C	15 h 53	72	Strong coverage
July	24.1°C	13°C	72 mm	7.8	11.1°C	15 h 33	86	Strong coverage
August	23.4°C	12.7°C	64 mm	6.6	16.3°C	14 h 14	87	Strong coverage
September	18.7°C	8.7°C	86 mm	9.4	14.6°C	12 h 30	58	Strong coverage
October	10.9°C	2.8°C	79 mm	10.7	9.6°C	10 h 47	22	Strong coverage
November	3.3°C	-3°C	49 mm	9.6	6.0°C	9 h 16	5	Strong coverage
December	-2.4°C	-8.5°C	36 mm	8.1	3.9°C	8 h 31	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Houghton runs +1.4°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+2.0

Feb

+1.8

Mar

+2.1

Apr

-0.6

May

+0.6

Jun

+0.9

Jul

+0.6

Aug

+1.0

Sep

+2.9

Oct

+1.3

Nov

+1.4

Dec

+2.7

August daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 23.9°C.

Records at HANCOCK HOUGHTON CO AP, 1948–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	10.0°C27 Jan 2006	-33.9°C30 Jan 1951	46 mm11 Jan 1980	216 mm1980 · driest 0 mm in 2011	66
February	15.6°C16 Feb 2011	-34.4°C9 Feb 1951	46 mm8 Feb 1989	130 mm1989 · driest 0 mm in 2022	66
March	25.6°C19 Mar 2012	-30.6°C2 Mar 2003	54 mm10 Mar 2019	190 mm1976 · driest 2 mm in 2014	66
April	31.1°C25 Apr 1990	-20.0°C6 Apr 2003	53 mm26 Apr 1954	146 mm2001 · driest 7 mm in 2011	65
May	35.0°C28 May 1969	-6.7°C3 May 1954	46 mm11 May 2003	145 mm1999 · driest 13 mm in 1976	66
June	36.7°C20 Jun 2022	-2.1°C1 Jun 2015	151 mm17 Jun 2018	241 mm2018 · driest 11 mm in 1995	66
July	38.9°C7 Jul 1988	2.8°C6 Jul 1969	77 mm12 Jul 2018	157 mm1968 · driest 15 mm in 1964	66
August	36.7°C24 Aug 1948	1.1°C26 Aug 1950	82 mm30 Aug 1995	230 mm1951 · driest 6 mm in 1990	65
September	32.8°C3 Sep 1971	-4.4°C28 Sep 2000	91 mm4 Sep 2007	284 mm2007 · driest 22 mm in 1948	65
October	30.6°C4 Oct 2025	-10.6°C31 Oct 1954	62 mm3 Oct 2021	175 mm2007 · driest 16 mm in 1953	65
November	25.0°C6 Nov 2020	-21.7°C3 Nov 1951	47 mm5 Nov 1948	136 mm1975 · driest 8 mm in 2004	64
December	17.8°C1 Dec 1998	-26.6°C28 Dec 2017	30 mm5 Dec 2017	185 mm1981 · driest 2 mm in 2000	65

Typical days per month at HANCOCK HOUGHTON CO AP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	31	<1	24
February	0	0	28	<1	14
March	0	0	28	<1	10
April	<1	0	20	1	5
May	3	<1	5	2	<1
June	8	2	<1	2	0
July	14	3	0	2	0
August	12	2	0	2	0
September	4	<1	<1	3	<1
October	<1	0	9	3	3
November	0	0	23	1	13
December	0	0	30	<1	17

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was July (scoring 90); on 2011–2025 it is August (89). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in HANCOCK HOUGHTON CO AP’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	43%	5%	57%	-9.1–-2.4°C
February	0%	31%	2%	39%	-7.9–-0.9°C
March	<1%	24%	4%	27%	-2.5–3.2°C
April	4%	26%	5%	31%	4.6–10.3°C
May	21%	27%	7%	30%	12.9–18.6°C
June	46%	29%	8%	35%	19.5–23.5°C
July	65%	25%	8%	23%	22.2–26.1°C
August	60%	24%	8%	25%	21.0–24.9°C
September	29%	31%	9%	40%	15.6–21.0°C
October	9%	32%	7%	40%	8.3–14.0°C
November	<1%	36%	6%	48%	0.2–6.2°C
December	0%	40%	3%	52%	-5.4–-0.4°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1948Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 63-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1950.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4996572
NOAA station: USW00014858 · HANCOCK HOUGHTON CO AP
Station distance: 8.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 47.12°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 23 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from HANCOCK HOUGHTON CO AP is what differs

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