Highland Hills, OH climate
Highland Hills has chilly, snowy winters and pleasant summers. A typical July afternoon reaches 82°, a January night drops to 20°, and about 114 inches of snow falls in a normal winter.
NOAA 1991-2020 climate normals Updated once a decadeWhat a year in Highland Hills feels like
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Highland Hills 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 | 34° | 20° | 2.8" | 34.4" | 20 | 24 | 17° – 37° |
| February | 36° | 21° | 2.2" | 23.4" | 16 | 21 | 13° – 38° |
| March | 45° | 29° | 3.0" | 16.5" | 14 | 13 | 30° – 50° |
| April | 59° | 38° | 3.7" | 4.0" | 14 | 2 | 42° – 55° |
| May | 70° | 49° | 3.9" | 0 | 14 | 0 | 52° – 66° |
| June | 78° | 59° | 4.1" | 0 | 13 | 0 | 63° – 73° |
| July | 82° | 63° | 4.0" | 0 | 11 | 0 | 68° – 76° |
| August | 80° | 61° | 3.6" | 0 | 11 | 0 | 66° – 76° |
| September | 74° | 54° | 4.1" | 0 | 11 | 0 | 61° – 69° |
| October | 62° | 44° | 3.7" | 0.6" | 14 | 0 | 49° – 59° |
| November | 49° | 35° | 3.4" | 9.3" | 15 | 6 | 35° – 48° |
| December | 38° | 26° | 3.0" | 25.5" | 18 | 17 | 22° – 43° |
| Year | 59° | 41° | 41.4" | 113.7" | 170 | 82 |
“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 Highland Hills
Highland Hills 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 170 days a year. Snow covers the ground about 82 days of the year.
About 184 frost-free days a year
In half of years the last 32° night comes by April 26 and the first one by October 31. That leaves about 184 frost-free days for gardens, longer than 57% of U.S. towns.
Heating and cooling a home in Highland Hills
Engineers use “degree days” to estimate how hard a furnace or air conditioner works. In Highland Hills, 90% of that work is heating and 10% 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.
Highland Hills and its neighbors
Highland Hills borders 3 towns with climate data. January nights across them vary by 0.7°. Beachwood has the coldest January nights (19°) and Shaker Heights the hottest July afternoons (82°). Highland Hills’s January low is 20° and its July high 82°.
Temperatures and rain come from NOAA’s 5 km grid, so each town gets its own value.