Summers are pleasant albeit rainy, with warm to hot daytime temperatures along with cooler nights.

Winters are severely long and cold for the lower 48, as well as being very snowy, with annual snowfall averaging over 120 inches (305 cm) each year, due to lake-effect snow.

The average growing season is likely the shortest in the state of Michigan, with just 88 growing days, lasting from June 12 to September 8, though frosts have been recorded during all months of the year, including all of the summer months.

Diurnal temperature range is relatively high year round, though it is higher during Spring and Summer.

18.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.