What is the hottest month in Long Point?

July is the warmest month in Long Point, with an average high of 87.5°F.

What is the coldest month in Long Point?

January is the coldest month in Long Point, with an average low of 15.9°F.

What month does Long Point get the most rain?

May is typically the wettest month in Long Point, with about 4.69 inches of precipitation.

What plant hardiness zone is Long Point in?

Long Point is approximately in USDA plant hardiness Zone 7a, based on the average annual extreme minimum temperature.

Has the climate in Long Point changed recently?

8.5% of Long Point's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (since 2015), compared to roughly 5% if records were evenly distributed over time.

Long Point, IL

Climate overview — based on NOAA 1991-2020 normals from STREATOR 3 SE, IL US.

Dfa Hot-summer humid continental climate 7a USDA hardiness Zone 7a

Year-round temperatures (°F)

Avg high Avg low

Climate summary

Long Point has an annual average temperature of 51.7°F with about 39.4 inches of precipitation per year and 26.4 inches of snow. The warmest month is July (average high 87.5°F), and the coldest is January (average low 15.9°F). May is typically the wettest month (4.69 in) and February the driest (1.92 in). Snow typically falls from November through April.

Pleasant months

2 / 12

avg high 65–80°F, low ≥ 50°F

Annual swing

52.6°F

warmest to coldest month

Heating need

5,706

HDD/yr

Cooling need

900

CDD/yr

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Climate change signal

All-time records →

31 of 366 (8.5%) of Long Point's all-time daily heat records have been set since 2015. If records were spread evenly across the station's history, only about 5% would fall in any given decade.

1890s		55
1900s		71
1910s		113
1930s		18
1940s		47
1950s		0
1960s		0
1970s		0
1980s		0
1990s		0
2000s		0
2010s		58
2020s		4

Bars: number of all-time daily heat records still standing that were set in each decade.

Monthly averages

Month	Avg High	Avg Low	Avg Temp	Precipitation	Snow	Rainy days
January	31.9°F	15.9°F	23.9°F	2.56 in	9.6 in	9
February	36.7°F	19.3°F	28.0°F	1.92 in	4.8 in	8
March	48.9°F	29.3°F	39.1°F	2.78 in	3.7 in	10
April	62.2°F	40.3°F	51.3°F	3.73 in	0.7 in	12
May	73.7°F	51.6°F	62.7°F	4.69 in	—	12
June	84.1°F	62.2°F	73.2°F	4.67 in	—	11
July	87.5°F	65.5°F	76.5°F	4.10 in	—	9
August	84.2°F	63.5°F	73.9°F	3.70 in	—	9
September	77.6°F	55.2°F	66.4°F	3.56 in	—	7
October	64.7°F	43.8°F	54.3°F	2.98 in	—	9
November	49.3°F	32.2°F	40.8°F	2.57 in	0.8 in	9
December	37.2°F	22.2°F	29.7°F	2.17 in	6.8 in	9