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Temperature Averages Spring – High: 59 °F
Spring – Low: 39 °F
Summer – High: 82 °F
Summer – Low: 62 °F
Fall – High: 63 °F
Fall – Low: 44 °F
Winter – High: 39 °F
Winter – Low: 21 °F
Precipitation Averages Spring: 3.78 in.
Summer: 3.88 in.
Fall: 3.82 in.
Winter: 3.08 in.
What to Pack
  • Fingerless gloves
  • Flip-flops
  • Hipster boots
  • Snow boots

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Wesleyan has gorgeous weather for about four months out of the year. In between, there is snow, but let's talk about the pretty months first! Fall is absolutely stunning, especially if you're coming from a place with no seasons (well, no "visible" seasons). When the leaves change, it's like a crazy explosion of reds, yellows, and oranges. Spring is great because you've just been super cold for a really long time and then everything gradually melts away, and it's warm enough to wear shorts again. The first time the sun comes out and it gets up to 50 F, you'll see students sunbathing all around campus.

Winter is cold, but not unbearable. Even when there's a freak snowstorm that covers the campus in multiple feet of snow, everyone knows how to have fun with it (e.g., making a colony of igloos and snow forts). You'll get the kind of winter you would expect from any school in the Northeast, basically—but to all you Californian kids, it's really not that bad.

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Weather at Wesleyan University

cremdelacrop

'15

Psychology

2.7
C+

Bipolar Weather

Really, one of the only complaints I have about this school is the weather, which I know the university has no responsibility or control of. MIDDLETOWN WEATHER is pleasant for the first three weeks of school in September. Then it gets rainy, then it starts freezing and then it starts snowing randomly on Halloween only to invite a campus-wide blackout for three days. Oh, did I mention it rains A LOT? One of the few things I bought while in school last semester was a good pair of rain boots. So excited to return to school in a couple of days, but NOT looking forward to a semester long gloomy weather. But then again, this is not a Wesleyan-specific problem. This is the world of New England Doom Weather. Nonetheless, I complain.

Jan 21, 2012

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Weather at Wesleyan University

arudess

'15

Foreign Languages and Literatures

4.6
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Weather

I chose a school in the Northeast because I enjoy the four seasons. It does get cold in the winter; however, the campus isn't that big, and there is a transportation system, the ride if you don't feel like walking

Sep 18, 2011

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rebrown

'15

Philosophy

2.7
C+

Snow

You get what you would expect out of a school in the northeast: cold weather and snow.

Sep 15, 2011

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