Antelope Ranger Station, SD Climate: Temperature by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Antelope Ranger Station's primary NOAA station, ANTELOPE RS.
The climate verdict for Antelope Ranger Station
Antelope Ranger Station, South Dakota has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 43°F. July is the warmest month at 70°F and January the coldest at 18°F.
- 43°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 123 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Antelope Ranger Station: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00390223 · Antelope Ranger Station, SD 43°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 43°F
- RANK-COOL #892
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Collegeville St…
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 53°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 8,317 HDD
- STN-1 USC00390223
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Collegeville St John's, MN (+ 0.1 °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 SD station list.
- Hot Pretty Rock, ND 44°F
- Near Collegeville St…, MN 44°F
- Near Amery, WI 44°F
- Antelope Ranger… (this station) 43°F
- Cold Buffalo, SD 43°F
Climate Living Index · Antelope Ranger Station
Antelope Ranger Station: 13/100 · grade F
Antelope Ranger Station publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Antelope Ranger Station, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 43.4°F · 24.1° from 67.5°F | 14/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 199 calendar days | 14/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 123 days/year | 8/100 · F |
Antelope Ranger Station · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Antelope Ranger Station sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Antelope Ranger Station are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 87%
- Among 6,861 stations, Antelope Ranger Station sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 88%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Antelope Ranger Station is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30°F (-1°C) | 5°F (-15°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | N/A | 30.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 34°F (1°C) | 8°F (-13°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | N/A | 27.6 | 0.0 |
| March | 44°F (7°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 31°F (0°C) | N/A | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 55°F (13°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 42°F (6°C) | N/A | 18.6 | 0.1 |
| May | 66°F (19°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 53°F (12°C) | N/A | 6.0 | 0.4 |
| June | 76°F (25°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 63°F (17°C) | N/A | 0.1 | 1.9 |
| July | 85°F (30°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 70°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 12.4 |
| August | 86°F (30°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 70°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.1 | 12.0 |
| September | 75°F (24°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 59°F (15°C) | N/A | 4.6 | 3.3 |
| October | 58°F (14°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 44°F (7°C) | N/A | 18.4 | 0.2 |
| November | 44°F (7°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | N/A | 28.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 33°F (1°C) | 8°F (-13°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | N/A | 31.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 88°F around July 31, short of 90°F on every date, while 199 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 5°F near January 3.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 26, then returns to freezing around October 11, covering 199 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.
The widest day
August 25 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 34°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Antelope Ranger Station.
Where Antelope Ranger Station Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 199 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Daily temperature swings run wider than most of the country, peaking near 34°F between the normal high and low.
Antelope 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
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 19
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 19
50% probability date
Growing Season
123 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,317
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
492
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside SD closest to Antelope 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 (43°F here).
- Ashton, ID 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Atlanta, MI 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Buffalo, WY 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Minot, ND 43°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Antelope Ranger Station's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Antelope Ranger Station's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,317 annual heating degree days against 492 for cooling. Its 52.9°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 January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Antelope Ranger Station's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 52.9°F. The annual average is 43°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Antelope Ranger Station's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Antelope Ranger Station's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Antelope Ranger Station, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Antelope Ranger Station's climate
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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 Antelope Ranger Station's primary station: ANTELOPE RS (USC00390223). 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 Antelope 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 Antelope 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.