Dryden, NY climate
Dryden has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. A typical July afternoon reaches 80°, a January night drops to 15°, and about 63 inches of snow falls in a normal winter.
NOAA 1991-2020 climate normals Updated once a decadeWhat a year in Dryden feels like
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Dryden weather by month
Average highs, lows, rain and snow for every month, from NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals.
| Month | High | Low | Rain + melt | Snow | Wet days | Snow on ground | 30-yr range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31° | 15° | 2.7" | 16.6" | 16 | 21 | 14° – 31° |
| February | 33° | 17° | 2.3" | 14.5" | 13 | 20 | 11° – 33° |
| March | 42° | 23° | 3.0" | 12.0" | 14 | 13 | 25° – 45° |
| April | 55° | 33° | 3.4" | 2.8" | 14 | 1 | 38° – 49° |
| May | 68° | 44° | 3.5" | 0 | 15 | 0 | 51° – 61° |
| June | 76° | 54° | 4.3" | 0 | 14 | 0 | 62° – 70° |
| July | 80° | 59° | 4.1" | 0 | 13 | 0 | 65° – 73° |
| August | 78° | 56° | 4.0" | 0 | 12 | 0 | 64° – 71° |
| September | 72° | 50° | 4.1" | 0 | 12 | 0 | 58° – 65° |
| October | 59° | 39° | 3.9" | 0.2" | 15 | 0 | 44° – 56° |
| November | 47° | 31° | 3.1" | 4.6" | 14 | 4 | 33° – 44° |
| December | 36° | 22° | 3.1" | 12.2" | 16 | 14 | 21° – 40° |
| Year | 56° | 37° | 41.4" | 62.9" | 166 | 73 |
“Wet days” have at least 0.01" of rain or melted snow. “Snow on ground” counts days with 1" or more. The 30-year range is the coldest and warmest that month’s average temperature got between 1991 and 2020.
Rain and snow in Dryden
Dryden gets 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year. June is the wettest month and February the driest. Rain or snow falls on about 166 days a year. Snow covers the ground about 73 days of the year.
About 145 frost-free days a year
In half of years the last 32° night comes by May 11 and the first one by October 3. That leaves about 145 frost-free days for gardens, shorter than 85% of U.S. towns.
Heating and cooling a home in Dryden
Engineers use “degree days” to estimate how hard a furnace or air conditioner works. In Dryden, 95% of that work is heating and 5% is cooling, so the furnace matters far more than the air conditioner.
Degree days measure how far each day’s average temperature falls below or rises above 65°, added up over a year. Source: NOAA station normals.