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Weather in Ponca, NE · National Weather Service + NOAA

Ponca is snow country

Ponca has cold, snowy winters and warm summers. A typical July afternoon reaches 85°, a January night drops to 10°, and about 36 inches of snow falls in a normal winter. Normal November highs come to 47°, and lows to 25°.

Winter 32°/13°Spring 60°/37°Summer 83°/61°Fall 62°/38°
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Sunrise 8:02 am · sunset 6:18 pm

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What stands out about Ponca’s weather

Read from 30 years of NOAA records. Each one opens the full story on the Climate page.

Climate →
Snow countryAbout 36 inches a winter, more than 824 of 910 Nebraska towns.Among Nebraska’s coldest wintersJanuary nights average 10°, colder than 909 of 913 Nebraska towns.Barely warmer than a century agoThe last 30 years averaged 0.6° warmer than the 1900s, a smaller shift than 94% of U.S. towns.
A normal year

Where today sits in Ponca’s year

Typical highs and lows month by month, from 30 years of NOAA records.

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Winter
32° / 13°
12 days with an inch or more of snow
Spring
60° / 37°
Last frost around May 3
Summer
83° / 61°
29 days reach 90° in a normal year
Fall now
62° / 38°
First frost around Oct 3
Pastthe usual first frost (Oct 3). Last frost next spring: May 3
Best months to be outside
MayJunAugSep
Highs of 62–84° and lows of 40° or more
How much snow does Ponca get?About 36 inches a winter.When is it wettest?June, with 4.5 inches.Is it warmer than it used to be?+0.6° vs. the 20th century.

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Forecast, conditions and alerts: National Weather Service. Climate: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020 and 1901–2000. Temperatures and rainfall come from NOAA’s gridded normals for Ponca itself (about a 3-mile square). Snow, frost dates and day counts: the NOAA station at Newcastle, NE (10 mi, snow) and Vermillion 2 Se, SD (17 mi, frost, heat and degree days). Sunrise and sunset are calculated from the town’s position. Normals are 30-year averages, not a forecast.