Baggs, WY 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 Baggs's primary NOAA station, BAGGS.
The climate verdict for Baggs
Dryness leads the climate profile for Baggs, Wyoming, with 11.2 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 44°F. At 39/100 (below average) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 4% of scores.
- 44°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 39/100
- comfort score, above 4% of station-mapped location scores
- 11.2"
- annual precipitation · 31" snow
- 109 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Baggs: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00480484 · Baggs, WY 44°F mean · 11.2" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 44°F
- RANK-COOL #961
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hayden
- PRCP-ARID 11.2"
- SWING-WIDE 48°F
- COMF-LOW 39/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,951 HDD
- STN-1 USC00480484
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Hayden, CO (+ 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 WY station list.
- Baggs (this station) 44°F
- Cold Sun Rvr, MT 44°F
- Hot Harlowton, MT 44°F
- Near Hayden, CO 44°F
- Near Grace, ID 44°F
Baggs sits in Wyoming, the #5 coldest U.S. state at 43.3°F statewide annual average - see all 50 coldest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Baggs
Baggs: 15/100 · grade F
Baggs publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Baggs, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 39/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 30.5 inches/year | 38/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 11.2 in · 23.8 from 35 in | 16/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 43.7°F · 23.8° from 67.5°F | 15/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 206 calendar days | 11/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 109 days/year | 2/100 · F |
Baggs · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Baggs is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 19.6°F and warmest-month mean 68.0°F place this station in continental, no dry season, warm summer climates (Dfb). Class Dfb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 68.0°F
- Coldest month
- 19.6°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 Baggs sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Baggs's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 86%
- Among 6,861 stations, Baggs sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 91%
- Baggs'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 Baggs is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Baggs compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Baggs's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
39 4th percentile score exceeds 4% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Above this entry.
- 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 | 32°F (0°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 0.7" | 6.9" | 30.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 37°F (3°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 0.8" | 6.5" | 27.6 | 0.0 |
| March | 48°F (9°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 0.7" | 2.9" | 29.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 58°F (14°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.1" | 0.9" | 21.8 | 0.0 |
| May | 68°F (20°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.8" | 0.5" | 8.8 | 0.1 |
| June | 79°F (26°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 1.4 | 1.8 |
| July | 87°F (30°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 9.5 |
| August | 84°F (29°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 3.1 |
| September | 75°F (24°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 1.1" | 0.2" | 5.6 | 0.5 |
| October | 60°F (16°C) | 29°F (-1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 1.1" | 1.6" | 21.5 | 0.0 |
| November | 45°F (7°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 0.7" | 5.3" | 28.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 33°F (1°C) | 9°F (-13°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 0.7" | 5.7" | 30.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 88°F around July 20, short of 90°F on every date, while 206 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 7°F near January 3.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 30, then returns to freezing around October 8, 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 1, when 14% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is March 10 at 7%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 39 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 4 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 38°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Baggs.
Where Baggs 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.
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 11 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Baggs 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: 6.9"
3.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.5"
2.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.9"
2.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.9"
3.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.5"
4.3 days with precipitation
2.8 days with precipitation
3.1 days with precipitation
3.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
3.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.6"
3.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.3"
2.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.7"
3.1 days with precipitation
Baggs spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 23% of the annual total and December through February 20%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Baggs has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 48.4°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 1.8" and December 0.7". The three wettest months together take 36% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
How Baggs's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 39 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 11.2" between them, or roughly 0.29 inches on a typical wet day. That sits in the middle band: neither the many-light-days pattern of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes, nor the few-heavy-events pattern of the Gulf and the desert Southwest.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year and say nothing about the heaviest single storm on record.
Winter brings real snow to Baggs
Baggs averages 30.5 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 13 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: 30.5 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 13 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 27% 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 18
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 1
50% probability date
Growing Season
109 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,951
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
210
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WY closest to Baggs 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 (44°F here).
- Beach, ND 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Benson, MN 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Cheboygan, MI 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Conrad, MT 44°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (11.2" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Dinosaur, CO 11.2" · 0.0" off
- Klamath Falls, OR 11.1" · 0.0" off
- Madras, OR 11.2" · 0.0" off
- Gildford, MT 11.1" · 0.1" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Baggs
heating led · dry · mid swing
Baggs's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,951 annual heating degree days against 210 for cooling. Its 48.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 109 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. Baggs coldest normal
January
Averaging 20°F (-7°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Baggs typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Baggs snow peak
January
Baggs averages 30.5 inches of snow a year, with January 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 Baggs's primary station: BAGGS (USC00480484). 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 an incorporated place (GEOID 5604740). Match rule for Baggs: 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 Baggs 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.