What is the hottest month in Wakefield?

July is the warmest month in Wakefield, with an average high of 86.3°F.

What is the coldest month in Wakefield?

January is the coldest month in Wakefield, with an average low of 9.5°F.

What month does Wakefield get the most rain?

June is typically the wettest month in Wakefield, with about 5.03 inches of precipitation.

What plant hardiness zone is Wakefield in?

Wakefield is approximately in USDA plant hardiness Zone 6a, based on the average annual extreme minimum temperature.

Has the climate in Wakefield changed recently?

9% of Wakefield'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.

Wakefield, NE

Climate overview — based on NOAA 1991-2020 normals from WAKEFIELD, NE US.

Dfa Hot-summer humid continental climate 6a USDA hardiness Zone 6a

Year-round temperatures (°F)

Avg high Avg low

Climate summary

Wakefield has an annual average temperature of 48.4°F with about 30.7 inches of precipitation per year and 35.5 inches of snow. The warmest month is July (average high 86.3°F), and the coldest is January (average low 9.5°F). June is typically the wettest month (5.03 in) and January the driest (0.74 in). Snow typically falls from October through April.

Annual swing

52.8°F

warmest to coldest month

Heating need

6,570

HDD/yr

Cooling need

591

CDD/yr

Best time to visit Wakefield

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Climate change signal

All-time records →

33 of 366 (9%) of Wakefield'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		6
1900s		14
1910s		20
1920s		22
1930s		116
1940s		22
1950s		25
1960s		17
1970s		6
1980s		28
1990s		21
2000s		18
2010s		28
2020s		23

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	31.7°F	9.5°F	20.6°F	0.74 in	6.9 in	6
February	36.9°F	13.7°F	25.3°F	0.95 in	8.1 in	5
March	49.8°F	23.7°F	36.7°F	1.67 in	5.6 in	7
April	62.8°F	34.2°F	48.5°F	3.33 in	2.8 in	10
May	73.3°F	46.1°F	59.7°F	4.12 in	—	12
June	83.0°F	57.1°F	70.0°F	5.03 in	—	11
July	86.3°F	60.6°F	73.4°F	3.13 in	—	9
August	84.1°F	58.5°F	71.3°F	3.72 in	—	9
September	78.3°F	49.6°F	63.9°F	3.01 in	—	8
October	65.1°F	37.2°F	51.1°F	2.50 in	0.6 in	7
November	48.2°F	23.5°F	35.9°F	1.40 in	3.6 in	5
December	35.1°F	13.6°F	24.3°F	1.09 in	7.9 in	6