Barking Sands, HI Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Barking Sands's primary NOAA station, BARKING SANDS.
The climate verdict for Barking Sands
Barking Sands, Hawaii is cooling-led and dry. Its 17.8 inches of annual precipitation pairs with an annual average of 76°F. It scores 76/100 for climate comfort (good), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 69% of them.
- 76°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 76/100
- comfort score, above 69% of station-mapped location scores
- 17.8"
- precipitation, annual total
Barking Sands: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00022501 · Barking Sands, HI 76°F mean · 17.8" precip
TEMP-HOT · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-NARROW · COMF-TOP · LOAD-COOL · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-HOT 76°F
- RANK-WARM #6,792
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Makaweli
- PRCP-DRY 17.8"
- SWING-NARROW 8°F
- COMF-TOP 76/100
- LOAD-COOL 4,056 CDD
- STN-1 USW00022501
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Makaweli, HI ( -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 HI station list.
- Barking Sands (this station) 76°F
- Cold Molokai, HI 76°F
- Hot Lihue, HI 76°F
- Near Makaweli, HI 76°F
- Near Kapaka Farm, HI 76°F
Barking Sands sits in Hawaii, the #2 hottest U.S. state at 72.4°F statewide annual average - see all 50 hottest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Barking Sands
Barking Sands: 77/100 · grade B
Barking Sands publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Barking Sands, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 76/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 0 calendar days | 100/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 76.1°F · 8.6° from 67.5°F | 73/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 17.8 in · 17.2 from 35 in | 39/100 · F |
Barking Sands · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Barking Sands's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSh
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: hot semi-arid steppe (BSh). Class BSh is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically hot semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSh
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 80.1°F
- Coldest month
- 71.8°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 · cooling-led station
Where Barking Sands sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Barking Sands's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 1% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Barking Sands sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 76%
- Barking Sands's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 99%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Barking Sands is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Barking Sands compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Barking Sands's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
76 Top 31% score exceeds 69% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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 | 79°F (26°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 1.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 79°F (26°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 2.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 81°F (27°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 1.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 82°F (28°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 74°F (24°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| May | 84°F (29°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 1.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| June | 86°F (30°C) | 71°F (21°C) | 78°F (26°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| July | 87°F (30°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.7 |
| August | 88°F (31°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.6 |
| September | 87°F (31°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.1 |
| October | 86°F (30°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 1.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.1 |
| November | 84°F (29°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 2.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| December | 82°F (28°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 74°F (24°C) | 3.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The calendar barely moves in Barking Sands: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 64°F near January 29 and 88°F near August 12.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 64°F around January 29.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is January 9, when 26% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 20 at 11%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 67 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 13 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 16°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Barking Sands.
Where Barking Sands Stands Nationally
Among the steadiest day-night climates ranked: even the widest normal daily swing holds to roughly 16°F.
Barking Sands earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
7.8 days with precipitation
5.7 days with precipitation
6.3 days with precipitation
6.2 days with precipitation
4.7 days with precipitation
4.2 days with precipitation
3.6 days with precipitation
3.2 days with precipitation
5.6 days with precipitation
6.5 days with precipitation
5.7 days with precipitation
7.3 days with precipitation
Barking Sands's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 45% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 7%. 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 an unusually narrow 8.3°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 3.5"
- Driest month
- August, 0.3"
- Wettest three months
- December, February, November (49% 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.
How Barking Sands's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 67 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 17.8" between them, or roughly 0.27 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.
Barking Sands's record shows no measurable snowfall
This station measured snowfall across the 1991-2020 period and recorded none: the annual normal is 0.0 inches. That is a measured zero rather than missing data, which is a meaningful distinction here , most stations in the database simply do not report snow at all, and those pages say nothing about it.
A thirty-year normal of zero describes the typical year at this station. It is not a claim that snow has never fallen in the area.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
0
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
4,056
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
February
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside HI closest to Barking Sands 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 (76°F here).
- Everglades, FL 76°F · 0.0°F off
- Hollywood, FL 76°F · 0.0°F off
- Miami Beach, FL 76°F · 0.0°F off
- Juno Beach, FL 76°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (17.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Oelrichs, SD 17.9" · 0.0" off
- Pollock, SD 17.8" · 0.0" off
- Grass Range, MT 17.9" · 0.0" off
- Pismo Beach, CA 17.9" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Barking Sands's climate pattern fits together
cooling led · dry · low swing
Warm-season load persists through a relatively even calendar in Barking Sands. Cooling totals 4,056 degree days, more than double the 0 heating measure, and the 8.3°F seasonal range is compact rather than sharply divided.
Heat demand sits beside limited local precipitation: Barking Sands receives 17.8 inches in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's dry range. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. Month-level precipitation is the useful check on when that small annual total arrives.
The calendar stays thermally compact and dry. August and February mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar, only 8.3°F apart, while the annual precipitation total remains below PlainClimate's dry threshold. The annual average is 76°F. The monthly rows show whether that limited precipitation is spread through the year or concentrated in a shorter interval.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Barking Sands. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Barking Sands's primary station, so the summer figures are a thirty-year average rather than a ceiling: individual years have run hotter and will again. For Barking Sands that means a descriptive range only — not an official NOAA classification and not a prediction for next summer.
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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 Barking Sands's primary station: BARKING SANDS (USW00022501). 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 Barking Sands; 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 Barking Sands 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.