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Alliance Muni, NE Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month

Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score

30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Alliance Muni's primary NOAA station, ALLIANCE MUNI AP.

The climate verdict for Alliance Muni

Dryness leads the climate profile for Alliance Muni, Nebraska, with 14.9 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 46°F. At 52/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 24% of scores.

46°F
yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
52/100
comfort score, above 24% of station-mapped location scores
14.9"
precipitation, annual total
123 days
frost-free growing season

Alliance Muni: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.

Normals record plate

Sheet USW00024044 · Alliance Muni, NE 46°F mean · 14.9" precip

TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL

Nearest mean-temperature peer: Darlington Wwtp, WI (+ 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 NE station list.

Climate Living Index · Alliance Muni

Alliance Muni: 18/100 · grade F

Alliance Muni publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.

F
18/100Climate Living Index

PlainClimate-derived for Alliance Muni, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 52/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.

Alliance Muni Living Index dimension scores
DimensionStation valueScore
Precipitation balance 14.9 in · 20.1 from 35 in 28/100 · F
Annual temperature balance 46.2°F · 21.3° from 67.5°F 24/100 · F
Normal heat + freeze calendar 206 calendar days 11/100 · F
Frost-free season 123 days/year 8/100 · F

Alliance Muni · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.

Alliance Muni's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSk

Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: cold semi-arid steppe (BSk). Class BSk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold semi-arid steppe.

Köppen code
BSk
Group
Dry (arid or semi-arid)
Warmest month
72.2°F
Coldest month
23.7°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 Alliance Muni sits across the climate record

Three NOAA fields for Alliance Muni's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.

Annual temperature
Cooler than 76%
Among 6,861 stations, Alliance Muni sits in the cooler third of annual means.
Annual precipitation
Drier than 83%
Alliance Muni's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
Seasonal temperature swing
Wider than 75%
Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Alliance Muni is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.

How Alliance Muni compares across U.S. station-mapped locations

Alliance Muni's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations

PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals

52 24th percentile score exceeds 24% 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%). Below this entry. 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). This entry sits in this band. 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. This location 0 100 every station-mapped location, bucketed by value
  1. 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
  2. 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
  3. 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
  4. 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
  5. 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry.
  6. 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). This entry sits in this band.
  7. 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Above this entry.
  8. 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
  9. 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
  10. 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.

Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more station-mapped locations. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Monthly Temperatures

Average daily high and low temperatures by month

Month Avg High Avg Low Mean
January 38°F (3°C) 10°F (-12°C) 24°F (-4°C)
February 41°F (5°C) 12°F (-11°C) 26°F (-3°C)
March 51°F (11°C) 22°F (-6°C) 36°F (2°C)
April 59°F (15°C) 28°F (-2°C) 44°F (6°C)
May 69°F (20°C) 39°F (4°C) 54°F (12°C)
June 81°F (27°C) 49°F (10°C) 65°F (18°C)
July 89°F (31°C) 56°F (13°C) 72°F (22°C)
August 87°F (30°C) 54°F (12°C) 70°F (21°C)
September 77°F (25°C) 43°F (6°C) 60°F (16°C)
October 62°F (17°C) 29°F (-2°C) 46°F (8°C)
November 49°F (10°C) 18°F (-8°C) 33°F (1°C)
December 38°F (4°C) 9°F (-13°C) 24°F (-5°C)

The year, day by day

Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 89°F around July 20, short of 90°F on every date, while 206 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 8°F near December 19.

Normal daily high and low temperature for Alliance Muni, January through December Peaks 89°F around July 20. Bottoms 8°F around December 19. 0 20 40 60 80 100 freezing JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Normal daily high and low across the calendar year. NOAA 1991–2020 daily normals, ALLIANCE MUNI AP.

The freezing stretch

The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 1, then returns to freezing around October 9, covering 206 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 May 29, when 39% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 12 at 9%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 79 wet dates a year.

The widest day

September 10 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 35°F between the normal high and the normal low.

Look up any date

Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Alliance Muni.

Where Alliance Muni Stands Nationally

Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 206 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.

A drier-than-most normal water year — around 15 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.

Alliance Muni earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.

Monthly Precipitation

Average monthly rainfall

January 0.2"

2.8 days with precipitation

February 0.3"

4.2 days with precipitation

March 0.6"

4.8 days with precipitation

April 1.7"

8.4 days with precipitation

May 2.6"

11.6 days with precipitation

June 2.9"

10.9 days with precipitation

July 2.4"

8.5 days with precipitation

August 1.5"

7.7 days with precipitation

September 1.3"

6.9 days with precipitation

October 0.9"

6.4 days with precipitation

November 0.2"

3.4 days with precipitation

December 0.2"

3.2 days with precipitation

Alliance Muni runs a summer-peaked wet season

46% of Alliance Muni's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is June at 2.9", on a wide 48.5°F gap between its warmest and coldest month. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.

Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.

Alliance Muni is dry, and what does fall arrives gently

Only about 79 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 22% of the calendar, and they carry 14.9" between them. At roughly 0.19 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 May at about 12 wet days; the driest is January at about 3.

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.

Frost Dates & Growing Season

First Fall Freeze

September 22

50% probability date

Last Spring Freeze

May 22

50% probability date

Growing Season

123 days

Heating & Cooling Degree Days

Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling

Heating Degree Days

7,395

Higher = more heating needed

Cooling Degree Days

561

Higher = more cooling needed

Warmest Month

July

Coldest Month

December

Nationwide similar cities

Other rankable U.S. places outside NE closest to Alliance Muni 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 (46°F here).

Closest by annual precipitation

Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (14.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.

Nebraska climate overview →

Scarce-water calendar

Where Alliance Muni's limited precipitation lands

heating led · dry · mid swing

Alliance Muni's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,395 annual heating degree days against 561 for cooling. Its 48.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.

Only about 123 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.

July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Alliance Muni's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 48.5°F. The annual average is 46°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.

Alliance Muni's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 14.9 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.

Alliance Muni wettest normal

June

June concentrates the scarce annual total (14.9 inches).

Alliance Muni driest normal

January

January is typically driest; arid stations are defined by when water is absent, not by a four-season grid.

Questions about Alliance Muni's climate

How dry is Alliance Muni?
Alliance Muni receives 14.9 inches of precipitation a year, spread across roughly 79 days that record any measurable amount. For reference, the contiguous United States averages near 30 inches. Based on NOAA 30-year climate normals (1991-2020).
How many days above 90°F does Alliance Muni get?
Alliance Muni averages about 43 days a year at or above 90°F, concentrated in July and the months either side of it. That is a count of days reaching the threshold, not a measure of how far above it they go.
How much energy does heating and cooling require in Alliance Muni?
Alliance Muni has 7,395 heating degree days and 561 cooling degree days annually, a heating-dominated climate. Degree-day definitions: reading weather data.

Data Sources

Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Alliance Muni's primary station: ALLIANCE MUNI AP (USW00024044). 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 Alliance Muni; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainClimate

On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Alliance Muni 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.