Barstow Daggett, CA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Barstow Daggett's primary NOAA station, BARSTOW DAGGETT AP.
The climate verdict for Barstow Daggett
Dryness leads the climate profile for Barstow Daggett, California, with 3.8 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 68°F. It scores 77/100 for climate comfort (good), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 70% of them.
- 68°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 77/100
- comfort score, above 70% of station-mapped location scores
- 3.8"
- precipitation, annual total
- 280 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Barstow Daggett: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00023161 · Barstow Daggett, CA 68°F mean · 3.8" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 68°F
- RANK-WARM #6,381
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Flatonia
- PRCP-ARID 3.8"
- SWING-MID 42°F
- COMF-TOP 77/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USW00023161
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Flatonia, TX (+ 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 CA station list.
- Barstow Daggett (this station) 68°F
- Hot Moss Bluff, LA 68°F
- Near Flatonia, TX 68°F
- Near Hudspeth Rvr Rch, TX 68°F
- Near Lumberton, TX 68°F
Climate Living Index · Barstow Daggett
Barstow Daggett: 64/100 · grade C
Barstow Daggett publishes all six Living Index dimensions from NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals · NOAA hourly normals.
PlainClimate-derived for Barstow Daggett, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 77/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 67.9°F · 0.4° from 67.5°F | 97/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 280 days/year | 97/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.2 inches/year | 89/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 135 calendar days | 56/100 · C |
| Summer moisture balance | 42.4°F mean dew point | 46/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 3.8 in · 31.2 from 35 in | 0/100 · F |
Barstow Daggett · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Barstow Daggett's normals sit in a dry climate class: BWh
Annual precipitation falls well below the aridity threshold for this temperature regime, so the normals classify as hot desert (BWh). Class BWh is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically hot desert.
- Köppen code
- BWh
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 89.6°F
- Coldest month
- 47.4°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 · balanced station
Where Barstow Daggett sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Barstow Daggett's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 7% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Barstow Daggett sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 100%
- Barstow Daggett's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 45th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Barstow Daggett compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Barstow Daggett's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
77 Top 30% score exceeds 70% 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
Barstow Daggett's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 76 complete annual observations from 1945 to 2025, BARSTOW DAGGETT AP warmed at a fitted rate of 0.25°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Barstow Daggett primary station fitted change +0.25 °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 | 61°F (16°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 7.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 66°F (19°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 3.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 73°F (23°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| April | 80°F (26°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 65°F (19°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 5.0 |
| May | 89°F (32°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 16.8 |
| June | 99°F (37°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 84°F (29°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 26.6 |
| July | 105°F (41°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 90°F (32°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 30.6 |
| August | 104°F (40°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 89°F (31°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 30.7 |
| September | 96°F (36°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 25.8 |
| October | 83°F (28°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 8.4 |
| November | 70°F (21°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 2.6 | 0.1 |
| December | 60°F (16°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 47°F (9°C) | 0.6" | 0.2" | 10.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Barstow Daggett runs from a mild 34°F around December 20 to 106°F at the peak near July 19, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from May 19 through September 30, covering 135 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 6 to November 14.
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.
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 34°F around December 20.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is February 19, when 13% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 8 at 2%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 22 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 15 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 32°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Barstow Daggett.
Where Barstow Daggett Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 135 days a year the normal daily high itself reaches 90°F — a count fewer than one station in ten exceeds.
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 4 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Barstow Daggett 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
3.5 days with precipitation
3.9 days with precipitation
2.9 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
0.8 days with precipitation
0.3 days with precipitation
1.5 days with precipitation
1.2 days with precipitation
0.9 days with precipitation
1.0 days with precipitation
1.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
2.8 days with precipitation
Barstow Daggett's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 49% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 14%. 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 42.2°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 0.7"
- Driest month
- June, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- February, January, December (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.
Barstow Daggett is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 22 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 6% of the calendar, and they carry 3.8" between them. At roughly 0.17 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 February at about 4 wet days; the driest is June at about 0.
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.
Snow reaches Barstow Daggett, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 0.2 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.
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 26
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
February 19
50% probability date
Growing Season
280 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,019
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
3,130
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Humidity & Wind
Monthly averages from hourly observations
| Month | Humidity | Wind (mph) | Clear Sky % | Overcast % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44% | 8.5 | 68% | 14% |
| February | 41% | 10.5 | 65% | 13% |
| March | 33% | 13.1 | 75% | 7% |
| April | 27% | 14.6 | 77% | 5% |
| May | 24% | 14.2 | 81% | 4% |
| June | 19% | 12.9 | 88% | 1% |
| July | 22% | 11.1 | 80% | 1% |
| August | 24% | 10.2 | 81% | 2% |
| September | 26% | 9.8 | 88% | 1% |
| October | 30% | 8.7 | 80% | 5% |
| November | 38% | 7.9 | 73% | 7% |
| December | 44% | 7.2 | 67% | 13% |
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Barstow Daggett 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 (68°F here).
- Flatonia, TX 68°F · 0.0°F off
- Lumberton, TX 68°F · 0.0°F off
- Moss Bluff, LA 68°F · 0.0°F off
- St Martinville, LA 68°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (3.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Tacna, AZ 3.8" · 0.0" off
- Wendover, UT 3.6" · 0.2" off
- Yuma Proving Ground, AZ 3.5" · 0.2" off
- Yuma, AZ 4.0" · 0.2" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Barstow Daggett's limited precipitation lands
mixed demand · dry · mid swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 3.8 inches annually, within PlainClimate's dry band. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. The monthly distribution matters because the total alone does not reveal the timing.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Barstow Daggett's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 42.2°F. The annual average is 68°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Barstow Daggett's normal, at 2,019 and 3,130 degree days respectively. Neither total exceeds the other by more than two to one, so the record is better read as a mixed-demand calendar than as heating-led or cooling-led.
Barstow Daggett has a long frost-free window of roughly 280 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
Barstow Daggett wettest normal
February
February concentrates the scarce annual total (3.8 inches).
Barstow Daggett driest normal
June
June is typically driest; arid stations are defined by when water is absent, not by a four-season grid.
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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 Barstow Daggett's primary station: BARSTOW DAGGETT AP (USW00023161). 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 Barstow Daggett; 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 Barstow Daggett 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.