Adin Ranger Station, CA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Adin Ranger Station's primary NOAA station, ADIN RS.
The climate verdict for Adin Ranger Station
Dryness leads the climate profile for Adin Ranger Station, California, with 15.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 51°F. At 49/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 18% of scores.
- 51°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 15.0"
- annual precipitation · 45" snow
- 124 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Adin Ranger Station: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00040029 · Adin Ranger Station, CA 51°F mean · 15.0" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 51°F
- RANK-MID #2,950
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mccloud
- PRCP-DRY 15.0"
- SWING-MID 36°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,613 HDD
- STN-1 USC00040029
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Mccloud, CA (+ 0 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every CA station list.
- Adin Ranger Sta… (this station) 51°F
- Hot Mccloud, CA 51°F
- Near Hat Creek, CA 51°F
- Near Dufur, OR 51°F
- Cold Transou, NC 50°F
Climate Living Index · Adin Ranger Station
Adin Ranger Station: 28/100 · grade F
Adin Ranger Station publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Adin Ranger Station, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 50.6°F · 16.9° from 67.5°F | 43/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 15.0 in · 20.0 from 35 in | 28/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 45.1 inches/year | 24/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 186 calendar days | 22/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 124 days/year | 9/100 · F |
Adin Ranger Station · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Adin Ranger Station is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 34.2°F and warmest-month mean 69.7°F place this station in temperate, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Csb). Class Csb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Csb
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 69.7°F
- Coldest month
- 34.2°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · heating-led station
Where Adin Ranger Station sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Adin Ranger Station's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 43rd percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 83%
- Adin Ranger Station's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 81%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Adin Ranger Station is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Adin Ranger Station compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Adin Ranger Station's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
49 18th percentile score exceeds 18% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores
- 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). This entry sits in this band.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Above this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Above this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 47°F (8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 1.9" | 9.3" | 26.6 | 0.0 |
| February | 50°F (10°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 1.6" | 8.1" | 23.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 56°F (13°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 1.7" | 7.1" | 21.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 62°F (17°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 1.6" | 3.9" | 14.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 71°F (22°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 1.7" | 0.8" | 5.3 | 0.5 |
| June | 79°F (26°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| July | 89°F (32°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 10.9 |
| August | 88°F (31°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 8.3 |
| September | 83°F (28°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 1.6 | 3.6 |
| October | 69°F (20°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.0" | 0.4" | 10.6 | 0.1 |
| November | 55°F (13°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 1.6" | 5.2" | 21.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 45°F (7°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 2.2" | 10.3" | 26.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Adin Ranger Station works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 90°F by July 23 and hold at or above 90°F on 13 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 173 dates, bottoming at 23°F around December 17.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 20 through August 1, covering 13 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 13 to October 13.
This counts calendar dates whose 1991–2020 normal high reaches 90°F. It is a smaller number than the 90°F+ day counts in the monthly table above, which measure how often the threshold was actually crossed in a typical year. A date can average 88°F and still exceed 90°F in half of all years.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 16, then returns to freezing around October 27, covering 173 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is March 4, when 35% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 30 at 5%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 83 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 3 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 41°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Adin Ranger Station.
Where Adin Ranger Station Stands Nationally
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 41°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 15 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Adin Ranger Station earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 9.3"
10.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.1"
9.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.1"
11.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.9"
9.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.8"
7.7 days with precipitation
4.3 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
2.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
5.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.2"
8.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.3"
10.9 days with precipitation
Adin Ranger Station's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 38% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 8%. That is the cool-season-dominant pattern of the West Coast and the higher inland West, where storm tracks swing south in winter and summer turns dry; the thermometer meanwhile shows a 35.5°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 2.2"
- Driest month
- August, 0.2"
- Wettest three months
- December, January, March (39% of the year)
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A cool-season label means the December-February share reaches 35%. Where snow falls, the monthly figures above report liquid-equivalent precipitation, so a wet winter month is not necessarily a rainy one.
Adin Ranger Station is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 82 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 23% of the calendar, and they carry 15.0" between them. At roughly 0.18 inches on an average wet day, this is not the damp drizzle of a marine climate; it is an arid record in which precipitation is both uncommon and light when it appears.
The wettest month by count is March at about 11 wet days; the driest is July at about 2.
A low per-event average in a dry record is a statement about typical days only. Arid regions can still take a large share of a year's total from a single convective storm, which a normal cannot show.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, not the extremes within it.
Winter brings real snow to Adin Ranger Station
Adin Ranger Station averages 45.1 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 24 days that record measurable snow. That is depth accumulating on the ground, which is why it can exceed the annual precipitation figure: precipitation counts the liquid the snow melts down to, and fresh snow is mostly air.
- Annual snowfall: 45.1 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 24 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 30% of the year's precipitation.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. The ten-to-one ratio is a convention, not a measurement: real ratios vary with temperature, so treat the share as an order of magnitude rather than an exact split.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 29
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 28
50% probability date
Growing Season
124 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,613
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
386
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Adin Ranger Station on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (51°F here).
- Bellefontaine, OH 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Bridgeport, NE 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Brighton, CO 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Delta, UT 51°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (15.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Ellicott, CO 15.0" · 0.0" off
- Polson, MT 15.0" · 0.0" off
- Santa Rosa, NM 15.0" · 0.0" off
- Yoder, WY 15.0" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Adin Ranger Station
heating led · dry · mid swing
Adin Ranger Station's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,613 annual heating degree days against 386 for cooling. Its 35.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 124 days are frost-free in a normal year. That short interval is consistent with the cold-season signal, but the measure does not predict the exact first or last freeze in any one year.
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1. Adin Ranger Station coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 34°F (1°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Adin Ranger Station typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Adin Ranger Station snow peak
December
Adin Ranger Station averages 45.1 inches of snow a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals.
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Adin Ranger Station's primary station: ADIN RS (USC00040029). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Adin Ranger Station; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Adin Ranger Station comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.