Geography and Climate
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 34.60 square miles (89.61 km2), of which, 33.96 square miles (87.96 km2) is land and 0.64 square miles (1.66 km2) is water.
Youngstown is in the Mahoning Valley on the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau. At the end of the last Ice Age, the glaciers left behind a uniform plain with valleys caused by the Mahoning River crossing the plain. Lakes created by glaciers that dammed small streams were eventually drained, leaving behind fertile terrain.
| Climate data for Youngstown, Ohio (Youngstown-Warren Airport), 1981–2010 normals | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °F (°C) | 71 (22) |
73 (23) |
82 (28) |
90 (32) |
95 (35) |
99 (37) |
103 (39) |
100 (38) |
99 (37) |
88 (31) |
80 (27) |
76 (24) |
103 (39) |
| Average high °F (°C) | 33.2 (0.7) |
36.8 (2.7) |
46.5 (8.1) |
59.7 (15.4) |
69.6 (20.9) |
78.1 (25.6) |
82.1 (27.8) |
80.6 (27) |
73.0 (22.8) |
61.3 (16.3) |
49.5 (9.7) |
37.2 (2.9) |
58.97 (14.99) |
| Average low °F (°C) | 19.0 (−7.2) |
20.7 (−6.3) |
27.7 (−2.4) |
38.0 (3.3) |
46.7 (8.2) |
55.4 (13) |
59.7 (15.4) |
58.3 (14.6) |
51.4 (10.8) |
41.5 (5.3) |
33.9 (1.1) |
24.0 (−4.4) |
39.69 (4.28) |
| Record low °F (°C) | −22 (−30) |
−16 (−27) |
−10 (−23) |
11 (−12) |
24 (−4) |
30 (−1) |
40 (4) |
32 (0) |
27 (−3) |
20 (−7) |
1 (−17) |
−12 (−24) |
−22 (−30) |
| Precipitation inches (mm) | 2.55 (64.8) |
2.15 (54.6) |
2.94 (74.7) |
3.36 (85.3) |
3.78 (96) |
3.87 (98.3) |
4.31 (109.5) |
3.23 (82) |
3.75 (95.3) |
2.77 (70.4) |
3.18 (80.8) |
2.98 (75.7) |
38.87 (987.4) |
| Snowfall inches (cm) | 17.1 (43.4) |
13.3 (33.8) |
10.6 (26.9) |
3.0 (7.6) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
.8 (2) |
3.6 (9.1) |
14.5 (36.8) |
62.9 (159.6) |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) | 16.1 | 13.5 | 14.4 | 14.3 | 12.9 | 12.0 | 10.4 | 10.2 | 11.4 | 11.1 | 14.6 | 16.5 | 157.4 |
| Avg. snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) | 12.7 | 9.3 | 6.8 | 2.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .6 | 4.8 | 10.3 | 47.1 |
| Source: NOAA, NWS (records) | |||||||||||||
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