Bagdad, AZ Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Bagdad's primary NOAA station, BAGDAD.
The climate verdict for Bagdad
Dryness leads the climate profile for Bagdad, Arizona, with 15.9 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 60°F. It scores 83/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 81% of them.
- 60°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 83/100
- comfort score, above 81% of station-mapped location scores
- 15.9"
- annual precipitation · 1" snow
- 219 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Bagdad: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00020586 · Bagdad, AZ 60°F mean · 15.9" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 60°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,214
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Raeford
- PRCP-DRY 15.9"
- SWING-MID 37°F
- COMF-TOP 83/100
- LOAD-HEAT 3,276 HDD
- STN-1 USC00020586
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Raeford, NC (+ 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 AZ station list.
- Bagdad (this station) 60°F
- Cold Albemarle, NC 60°F
- Hot Rome, GA 60°F
- Near Raeford, NC 60°F
- Near Winona, MS 60°F
Climate Living Index · Bagdad
Bagdad: 56/100 · grade C
Bagdad publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Bagdad, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 83/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 1.1 inches/year | 82/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 60.4°F · 7.1° from 67.5°F | 78/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 219 days/year | 77/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 15.9 in · 19.1 from 35 in | 32/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 172 calendar days | 31/100 · F |
Bagdad · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Bagdad'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
- 80.2°F
- Coldest month
- 43.1°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 Bagdad sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Bagdad's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 24% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Bagdad sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 80%
- Bagdad's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 76%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Bagdad is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Bagdad compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Bagdad's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
83 Top 19% score exceeds 81% 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%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Below this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). This entry sits in this band.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Bagdad's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 61 complete annual observations from 1930 to 2025, BAGDAD warmed at a fitted rate of 0.06°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Bagdad primary station fitted change +0.06 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 57°F (14°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 2.1" | 0.2" | 17.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 59°F (15°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 2.3" | 0.2" | 12.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 65°F (18°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 1.7" | 0.2" | 5.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 72°F (22°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 0.6" | 0.1" | 1.1 | 0.6 |
| May | 81°F (27°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 5.6 |
| June | 91°F (33°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 21.4 |
| July | 95°F (35°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 1.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 27.8 |
| August | 93°F (34°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 2.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 25.1 |
| September | 88°F (31°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 1.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 15.6 |
| October | 77°F (25°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 2.7 |
| November | 66°F (19°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 6.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 56°F (14°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.6" | 0.4" | 17.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Bagdad works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 95°F by July 10 and hold at or above 90°F on 91 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 81 dates, bottoming at 29°F around December 19.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 10 through September 8, covering 91 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 6 to November 5.
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 February 18, then returns to freezing around November 30, covering 81 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 August 16, when 22% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 7 at 4%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 44 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 8 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 Bagdad.
Where Bagdad Stands Nationally
Heat is a defining feature of the normals calendar — the normal daily high reaches 90°F on roughly 91 days a year, more than four out of five ranked stations record.
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 16 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Bagdad 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: 0.2"
4.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
4.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
4.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
2.5 days with precipitation
1.8 days with precipitation
1.0 days with precipitation
4.8 days with precipitation
6.9 days with precipitation
4.1 days with precipitation
2.2 days with precipitation
2.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
3.9 days with precipitation
Bagdad'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 24%. 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 37.1°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- August, 2.3"
- Driest month
- June, 0.2"
- Wettest three months
- August, February, January (43% 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.
When it rains in Bagdad, it arrives in quantity
15.9" of precipitation falls across only about 44 wet days here, averaging 0.36 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 44 a year, 12% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.36 inches
- Most wet days
- August, about 7
- Fewest wet days
- June, about 1
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Snow reaches Bagdad, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 1.1 inches of snow a year here, most likely in December. That is a real but marginal amount: enough that snow is part of the local record, not enough to define the winter.
A figure in this range usually reflects a handful of events that melt quickly rather than a season of accumulation; about 1 days a year record any measurable snow at all.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. An average across thirty years can smooth away a single heavy winter, so a small annual figure does not mean a significant snowfall is impossible.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 12
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 7
50% probability date
Growing Season
219 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,276
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,616
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AZ closest to Bagdad 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 (60°F here).
- Ben Lomond, CA 60°F · 0.0°F off
- Chester, SC 60°F · 0.0°F off
- Cushing, OK 60°F · 0.0°F off
- Hollis, OK 60°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (15.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Casper, WY 15.9" · 0.0" off
- Fort Collins, CO 15.9" · 0.0" off
- New England, ND 15.9" · 0.0" off
- Colorado Springs, CO 15.9" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Bagdad's climate pattern fits together
heating led · dry · mid swing
Bagdad's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 3,276 annual heating degree days against 1,616 for cooling. Its 37.1°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Bagdad's frost-free season lasts about 219 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Bagdad's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 37.1°F. The annual average is 60°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Bagdad's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 15.9 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Annual snowfall totals 1.1 inches. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Bagdad'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 Bagdad, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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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 Bagdad's primary station: BAGDAD (USC00020586). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as a census-designated place (GEOID 0405140), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Bagdad: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Bagdad 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.