Climate and average weather in Mansfield

In Mansfield, the summers are warm, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are very cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: mid May to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Mansfield typically varies from 21°F to 81°F, and is rarely below 1°F or above 89°F. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Mansfield for warm-weather activities is from mid May to mid October.

Hottest
Jul
81°
Coldest
Jan
21°
Wettest
Apr
4.5 in
Driest
Feb
2.6 in
Rain / yr
41.9 in
134 wet days
Daylight
9.1–14.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,243 ft
40.8°N
Clearest
Sep
52% cloud

Mansfield is city in and county seat of Richland County, Ohio, United States.

Density
585/km²
people per km²
Founded
1808

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Mansfield weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid May to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Mansfield, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.4 months, from May 17 to September 26, with daily high temperatures above 70°F. The hottest month of the year in Mansfield is July, with an average high of 81°F and low of 64°F.

The cool season lasts 3.2 months, from December 1 to March 6, with daily high temperatures below 43°F. The coldest month of the year in Mansfield is January, with an average low of 21°F and high of 34°F.

Days typically run about 16°F warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 19°F) in April.

20°40°60°80°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan3421
Feb3723
Mar4731
Apr6041
May6951
Jun7861
Jul8164
Aug8063
Sep7455
Oct6244
Nov4934
Dec3826

How hot and cold Mansfield really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about 8°F (around January 22), with roughly 155 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 32°F) 52 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

20°40°60°80°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°F)Air high (°F)Feels-like low (°F)Air low (°F)
Jan34341021
Feb37371323
Mar47472331
Apr60603641
May69695051
Jun78786161
Jul82816464
Aug80806363
Sep74745555
Oct61624044
Nov49492734
Dec38381726

Average hourly temperature in Mansfield

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 81°F, and coldest before dawn in January, near 21°F.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Mansfield weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°F)Rainfall (inches)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan34° / 21°3.211.47.39.40.0
Feb37° / 23°2.69.65.710.40.0
Mar47° / 31°3.611.73.911.71.4
Apr60° / 41°4.5131.313.14.3
May69° / 51°4.413.8014.25.8
Jun78° / 61°4.212.7014.96.2
Jul81° / 64°3.611.3014.66.3
Aug80° / 63°3.310.3013.66.6
Sep74° / 55°3.09.4012.36.9
Oct62° / 44°3.19.80.210.95.2
Nov49° / 34°3.110.229.71.9
Dec38° / 26°3.210.45.19.10.0

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Mansfield gets about 41.9 in of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.6 months, from around Mar 16 to Jul 4, peaking in May at about 45% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 9.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 4.5 in over about 13 wet days; February is the driest, with 2.6 in. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 4 · 45%Oct 9 · 30%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3611
Feb3510
Mar3812
Apr4313
May4414
Jun4213
Jul3711
Aug3410
Sep319
Oct3210
Nov3410
Dec3410

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Mansfield collects about 41.9 in of rain across 134 wet days — roughly 3.5 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 4.5 in, while February is the driest at just 2.6 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 32% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3.22.63.64.54.44.23.63.33.03.13.13.2
Rainfall (in)Rain daysSnow days
Jan3.2117
Feb2.6106
Mar3.6124
Apr4.5131
May4.4140
Jun4.2130
Jul3.6110
Aug3.3100
Sep3.090
Oct3.1100
Nov3.1102
Dec3.2105

Snow in Mansfield

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Mansfield averages about 26 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 27 to Apr 24 — about 5.9 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 7 days of snow and an estimated 12 in of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 45 in of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 17
Snow daysSnowfall (in)
Jan712
Feb611
Mar47
Apr12
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov24
Dec510

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Mansfield, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 26 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around October 27. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 56% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 28 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around May 25. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 78% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 2 · 57%Jan 13 · 21%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2278
Feb2674
Mar3169
Apr3367
May3862
Jun4654
Jul5545
Aug5644
Sep5545
Oct4555
Nov3367
Dec2377

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 11, brings about 14 h 54 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.47:585:21
Feb10.47:335:56
Mar11.76:506:30
Apr13.15:587:03
May14.25:187:34
Jun14.95:037:57
Jul14.65:167:55
Aug13.65:457:23
Sep12.36:166:32
Oct10.96:485:42
Nov9.77:255:06
Dec9.17:534:59

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Mansfield averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 12 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around Jun 9 to Nov 14. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 11 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is January, down near 4 sunny days — about 68% fewer than the September peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedSep 1912 daysJan 163 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun8Gloomy
Jul10Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep11Mixed
Oct10Mixed
Nov7Gloomy
Dec4Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Mansfield, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around May 22 to September 22. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 64% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 23 to May 21, and March is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 7 · 100%Jul 21 · 32%oppressivemuggydryhumidcomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar991000
Apr944100
May70151130
Jun332026192
Jul142128288
Aug182427266
Sep502216111
Oct878310
Nov982000
Dec1000000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Mansfield is typically light breeze, near 8 mph, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around Oct 13 to May 10. The windiest month is January, averaging about 9 mph (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 11 to Oct 12, with August the calmest month at about 6 mph.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyJan 11 · 9 mphAug 8 · 6 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan9light breeze
Feb9light breeze
Mar9light breeze
Apr9light breeze
May8light breeze
Jun7calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep7calm
Oct8light breeze
Nov9light breeze
Dec9light breeze

Best time to visit Mansfield

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Mansfield throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late May, Mansfield is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 64°F and 82°F. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Mansfield for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid May to mid October, with a peak score in the second week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 10 · 7.1

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.0poor
Mar1.4poor
Apr4.3fair
May5.8good
Jun6.2good
Jul6.3good
Aug6.6good
Sep6.9good
Oct5.1fair
Nov1.9poor
Dec0.1poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 75°F and 93°F. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Mansfield for hot-weather activities is from early June to mid September, with a peak score in the second week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 12 · 6.6

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Mansfield, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 81°F), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 34°F), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Mansfield sees daytime highs around 81°F and nights near 64°F. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Mansfield by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Mansfield peaks around June 20 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 23 at about 2 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJun 20UV 9Dec 23UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr6High
May8Very high
Jun10Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Mansfield

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar4.50
Apr6.50
May7.54
Jun8.56
Jul85
Aug7.54
Sep60
Oct30
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Mansfield by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Mansfield is worst in July — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.2× the cleanest month (October, 7 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1216 µg/m³Oct 247 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb11Good
Mar11Good
Apr11Good
May14Moderate
Jun15Moderate
Jul16Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep11Good
Oct7Good
Nov7Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Mansfield typically lasts about 250 days, from around March 20 to November 24 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 22 to October 21.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2050%Apr 2290%Oct 2190%Nov 2450%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1831
Feb2028
Mar4531
Apr8318
May980
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct928
Nov6030
Dec3031

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 50°F)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 50°F: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Mansfield banks about 2,856 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°F·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr48
May325
Jun583
Jul709
Aug655
Sep433
Oct103
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Mansfield receives about 4.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.5 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 20 to Sep 24. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.5 kWh/m² — roughly 75% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 276.3 kWhDec 151.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.8Dim
Feb2.7Moderate
Mar3.8Moderate
Apr4.9Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun6.2Intense
Jul6.1Intense
Aug5.4Bright
Sep4.4Bright
Oct3.0Moderate
Nov2.0Moderate
Dec1.5Dim

Where is Mansfield?

Mansfield sits at 40.8°N, 82.5°W, 1,243 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Ashland, 13 mi away.

Topography around Mansfield

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 2, 10 and 50 miles of Mansfield.

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Mansfield has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 397 ft around an average of 1,266 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 600 ft; within 50 miles, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,102 ft.

The land around Mansfield is covered by trees (51%), artificial surfaces (25%) and grassland (22%) within 2 miles, trees (49%), cropland (24%) and grassland (22%) within 10 miles, and cropland (46%) and trees (34%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
397 ft
10 miles
600 ft
50 miles
1,102 ft
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Ashland 13 mi · Mount Vernon 25 mi · Wooster 30 mi · Norwalk 34 mi · Marion 34 mi · Tiffin 42 mi · Medina 43 mi · Delaware 43 mi

United States travel facts

Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 100% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$90,027
2025
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
98%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
5.8
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
12.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Protestant 47%unaffiliated 23%Roman Catholic 21%Jewish 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Mansfield (40.7584°, -82.5155°, elevation 1,243 ft), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).