Mount Pleasant climate — normals and trends
Mount Pleasant (United States) has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 8.6 °C and it receives 902 mm of precipitation per year.
These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.
The warmest month is July (22.7 °C on average) and the coldest is January (-4.7 °C). Rainfall peaks in April.
Mount Pleasant averages 106 frost days, 2 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 119 rainy days per year.
Mount Pleasant has warmed by +1.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.13 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 126 to 86 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 34.7 °C (on 17 August 1988) and the coldest -29.9 °C (on 19 January 1994).
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
Climate normals · ERA5
Mount PleasantWisconsin
- coords
- 42.70°, -87.86°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
Mean daily temperature
8.6°C
Average daily high
10.7°C
Average daily low
6.8°C
Annual rainfall
902mm
Sunshine / day
9.0h
Mean relative humidity
77%
Average peak wind
30.6km/h
Seasonal range
27.4°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
106 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
2 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
119 d/yr
Annual snowfall
86.8 cm
Average feels-like high
7.8 °C
Average feels-like low
2.4 °C
Average peak gust
42.3 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
55 d/yr
Solar radiation
14.8 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025
+1.1 °C
since 1940
+0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.11 · p = 0.002
Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.
Records for the period
Hottest day
34.7 °C
17 August 1988
Coldest day
-29.9 °C
19 January 1994
Wettest day
105 mm
13 September 2008
Windiest day
73.5 km/h
11 November 1940
Strongest gust
111.2 km/h
11 November 1940
Hottest feels-like
40.3 °C
16 August 1988
Coldest feels-like
-38.1 °C
23 January 1963
Snowiest day
24.3 cm
1 January 1948
Sunniest day
14.8 h
16 June 2021
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
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Across the whole year
Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | -1.3 °C | +0.7 °C | 12 mm | -47 mm |
| Feb | -0.3 °C | +1.6 °C | 36 mm | -12 mm |
| Mar | 5.6 °C | +4.1 °C | 106 mm | +32 mm |
| Apr | 7.7 °C | +1.8 °C | 54 mm | -43 mm |
| May | 9.8 °C | -2.1 °C | 98 mm | +15 mm |
| Jun | 18.1 °C | -2.0 °C | 81 mm | +5 mm |
| Jul | 22.9 °C | -1.8 °C | 78 mm | +2 mm |
| Aug | 22.6 °C | -1.9 °C | 53 mm | -27 mm |
| Sep | 20.3 °C | -0.5 °C | 34 mm | -47 mm |
| Oct | 15.9 °C | +1.4 °C | 53 mm | -28 mm |
| Nov | 8.3 °C | +1.0 °C | 69 mm | -10 mm |
| Dec | 1.0 °C | -0.6 °C | 77 mm | +9 mm |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Mount Pleasant?
Mount Pleasant has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 8.6 °C and it receives 902 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Mount Pleasant?
The hottest day measured in Mount Pleasant between 1940 and 2025 was 17 August 1988, reaching 34.7 °C.
What is the coldest day in Mount Pleasant?
The coldest day measured in Mount Pleasant between 1940 and 2025 was 19 January 1994, at -29.9 °C.
Does it snow in Mount Pleasant?
Yes. Mount Pleasant gets on average 86.8 cm of snow per year and has around 106 frost days.
Has the climate of Mount Pleasant warmed?
Yes: Mount Pleasant warmed by +1.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Mount Pleasant?
The wettest day measured in Mount Pleasant between 1940 and 2025 was 13 September 2008, with 105 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Mount Pleasant?
The windiest day measured in Mount Pleasant between 1940 and 2025 was 11 November 1940, with winds reaching 73.5 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Mount Pleasant?
The warmest month in Mount Pleasant is July (22.7 °C on average); the coldest is January (-4.7 °C).
How much does it rain in Mount Pleasant?
Mount Pleasant receives on average 902 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 119 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Mount Pleasant?
Mount Pleasant gets on average 9.0 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,285 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Mount Pleasant?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Mount Pleasant between 1940 and 2025 was 1 January 1948, with 24.3 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Mount Pleasant?
Yes: Mount Pleasant has on average 55 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Mount Pleasant?
In Mount Pleasant, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 40.3 °C on 16 August 1988, and the lowest was -38.1 °C on 23 January 1963.
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