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When to paint a house exterior in Galion, OH

When to paint in Galion, OH

A normal season: plan the job, do not leave it late. The painting window is June to September, with 4 good months a year. The best month is August, at about 18 painting days. Book a painter by April.

If you want the house done in June to September, call for quotes in April or earlier; a job pushed past September is likely to wait until next year. For a deck, the months with enough staining days to spare are May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct.

  1. under 1Jan
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  3. under 1Mar
  4. 2Apr
  5. 7May
  6. 12Jun
  7. 16Jul
  8. 18Aug
  9. 13Sep
  10. 5Oct
  11. 1Nov
  12. under 1Dec

Month by month

MonthPainting daysStaining daysWith low-temp paintAvg low / high
Januaryunder 1under 1under 120° / 37°F
Februaryunder 1under 1122° / 42°F
Marchunder 1under 1329° / 52°F
April22738° / 64°F
May761450° / 75°F
June12101558° / 82°F
July16101662° / 85°F
August18131861° / 84°F
September13111856° / 79°F
October541544° / 67°F
November11633° / 53°F
Decemberunder 1under 1227° / 44°F

Deck stain does best in August. Low-temperature paint adds about 41 days a year here.

Towns near Galion compared

1 gets fewer, down to 61 a year. A gap like that between towns is usually elevation, a coast or a lake, which is why a painter from a few towns over can be on a different schedule. Mansfield, Ashland are read from the same station as Galion, so their numbers match; the real difference is the distance from that station.

PlaceFrom GalionPainting days a yearWindowStation
Bucyrus, OH11 mi northwest74June to SeptemberMarion Municipal Airport
Mansfield, OH13 mi east74June to Septembersame station
Marion, OH20 mi southwest74June to SeptemberMarion Municipal Airport
Ashland, OH26 mi east74June to Septembersame station
Mount Vernon, OH29 mi southeast61July to AugustNewark-Heath Airport
Tiffin, OH33 mi northwest74June to SeptemberFindlay Airport

How Galion ranks in OH

Of 176 OH places with 10,000 people or more, Galion (population 10,304, 173rd largest) ranks 124th for painting days, 2 days below the state median of 76. The longest season in the state is Euclid, 156 days, 88 miles northeast. The shortest is Reading at 59. Switching to low-temperature paint here is worth 41 extra days, more than most of the summer months on their own.

Where these numbers come from

Daily records from Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport (14.9 miles away), 2015 to 2024, NOAA Global Summary of the Day. A month is good at 12+ painting days and possible at 6+.