Historical weather data, all-time temperature records, and monthly climate averages for Pella, IA. Explore typical weather conditions by week for trip planning, and see how today compares to the historical record.
April 5 in Pella typically lands in that in-between stretch of spring, with average highs of 57° and lows still dipping to 35°. The date has seen some wild swings over 123 years of records — from a balmy 83° in 1991 to a bitter 14° low as recently as 2018. There's about a 1-in-4 chance of rain today, but snow is unlikely at just 3%.
Pella's weather history is not for the faint of heart — this is a place that has baked at 114° in August 1934 and frozen at -30° in January 1912, a staggering 144-degree range. A single November day in 1952 dropped over 6 inches of rain, and a February storm that same decade buried the town under 20 inches of snow. Iowa's continental climate keeps things interesting year-round.
Summer is peak warmth in Pella, with mid-July highs averaging 88° and the mercury regularly climbing into the upper 80s through August. Winter is genuinely cold — January highs average just 31°, barely above freezing. If you're watching the calendar for rain, mid-June is the wettest stretch of the year, averaging over an inch of precipitation in a single week.