Warm-summer humid continental
Littleton, New Hampshire
Grafton County, New Hampshire · Population 4.2k · 807 ft elevation
Living in Littleton
Littleton has a warm-summer humid continental climate: hot summers (July highs around 81°F) and bitterly cold winters (January lows around 5°F).
Precipitation is wet at about 41″ a year, and it is buried in snow every winter (101″ a season).
Skies are gray (49% of possible sunshine). It never gets truly muggy.
Air quality is good: a median AQI of 36, with about 3 unhealthy-air days in the latest year.
There is plenty to explore outdoors around Littleton: about 33% of the land within 30 miles is public (parks, national forest and the like), and the terrain rises and falls about 2,300 ft around town.
Littleton at a glance
- Population
- 4.2k
- Elevation
- 807 ft
- Average daily high
- 56°F5th percentile
- Average daily low
- 30°F1th percentile
- Annual precipitation
- 41″40th percentile
- Annual snowfall
- 101″98th percentile
- Sunshine hours per year
- 2,240 hrs1th percentile
- Median AQI
- 3616th percentile
- Median home value
- $213k37th percentile
- Median rent
- $878/mo22th percentile
- Median household income
- $48k12th percentile
- Property tax rate
- 1.69%81th percentile
- Top state income-tax rate
- 0.0%
- Sales tax (state + local)
- 0.0%
- Unemployment rate
- 5.0%
- Homes with broadband
- 82%12th percentile
- Walkability index
- 9.562th percentile
- Average commute
- 14 min
- Math proficiency (8th grade)
- 15%5th percentile
- Reading proficiency (8th grade)
- 25%
- Violent crime rate
- 215 per 100k58th percentile
- Property crime rate
- 1,043 per 100k
- Overall natural-hazard risk
- 8235th percentile
- Outdoor access
- 8887th percentile
- Public land within 10 miles
- 4%
- Public land within 30 miles
- 33%
- Mountain relief within 30 miles
- 2,329 ft
Climate by month
| Month | High | Low | Precipitation | Snow | Sunshine |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 29°F | 5°F | 2.6″ | 21.3″ | 118 hrs |
| Feb | 32°F | 5°F | 2.0″ | 21.5″ | 133 hrs |
| Mar | 41°F | 16°F | 2.6″ | 16.7″ | 182 hrs |
| Apr | 55°F | 29°F | 3.1″ | 5.4″ | 197 hrs |
| May | 69°F | 40°F | 3.7″ | 0.4″ | 225 hrs |
| Jun | 77°F | 49°F | 4.2″ | — | 245 hrs |
| Jul | 81°F | 54°F | 4.6″ | — | 277 hrs |
| Aug | 80°F | 51°F | 4.2″ | — | 265 hrs |
| Sep | 73°F | 43°F | 3.6″ | — | 230 hrs |
| Oct | 59°F | 34°F | 4.0″ | 1.6″ | 154 hrs |
| Nov | 46°F | 25°F | 3.0″ | 7.1″ | 117 hrs |
| Dec | 34°F | 13°F | 3.3″ | 26.9″ | 96 hrs |
Near Littleton
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Sources: NOAA climate normals, NASA POWER, EPA air quality, U.S. Census Bureau, FEMA, FBI, EPA walkability and EDFacts. Methodology