Battle Ground, WA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Battle Ground's primary NOAA station, BATTLE GROUND.
The climate verdict for Battle Ground
Water is the standout signal in Battle Ground, Washington: 52.4 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 51°F. Its climate comfort score of 59/100 (moderate) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 37% of station-mapped location scores.
- 51°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 59/100
- comfort score, above 37% of station-mapped location scores
- 52.4"
- annual precipitation · 1" snow
- 173 days
- frost-free growing season
Battle Ground: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00450482 · Battle Ground, WA 51°F mean · 52.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 51°F
- RANK-MID #3,019
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Skamania Fish H…
- PRCP-WET 52.4"
- SWING-NARROW 26°F
- COMF-MID 59/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,303 HDD
- STN-1 USC00450482
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Skamania Fish Hatchery, WA (+ 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 WA station list.
- Battle Ground (this station) 51°F
- Cold Concrete Ppl Fi…, WA 51°F
- Hot Vancouver, WA 51°F
- Near Skamania Fish H…, WA 51°F
- Near Falls City, OR 51°F
Climate Living Index · Battle Ground
Battle Ground: 59/100 · grade C
Battle Ground publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Battle Ground, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 59/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 73 calendar days | 84/100 · B |
| Snowfall burden | 1.4 inches/year | 80/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 50.9°F · 16.6° from 67.5°F | 44/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 173 days/year | 44/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 52.4 in · 17.4 from 35 in | 38/100 · F |
Battle Ground · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Battle Ground is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 38.5°F and warmest-month mean 64.9°F place this station in temperate, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Csb). Class Csb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Csb
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 64.9°F
- Coldest month
- 38.5°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 Battle Ground sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Battle Ground's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 44th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 14% wettest
- Battle Ground's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 94%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Battle Ground is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Battle Ground compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Battle Ground's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
59 37th percentile score exceeds 37% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Battle Ground's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 56 complete annual observations from 1943 to 2024, BATTLE GROUND warmed at a fitted rate of 0.13°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Battle Ground primary station fitted change +0.13 °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 | 46°F (8°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 7.2" | 0.5" | 14.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 50°F (10°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 5.3" | 0.3" | 14.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 55°F (13°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 5.6" | 0.2" | 10.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 60°F (15°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 3.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 67°F (19°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 3.4" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| June | 71°F (22°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 2.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| July | 79°F (26°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.8 |
| August | 80°F (26°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 4.0 |
| September | 75°F (24°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 2.2" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 1.7 |
| October | 63°F (17°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 4.8" | 0.0" | 3.6 | 0.0 |
| November | 52°F (11°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 7.6" | 0.0" | 8.8 | 0.0 |
| December | 45°F (7°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 8.0" | 0.4" | 14.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 81°F around July 30, short of 90°F on every date, while 73 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 31°F near February 12.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into February 24, then returns to freezing around December 11, covering 73 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 December 20, when 71% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 30 at 12%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 179 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 2 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 30°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Battle Ground.
Where Battle Ground Stands Nationally
The normal water year runs well above the national norm at roughly 52 inches.
Battle Ground 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
Snow: 0.5"
21.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
17.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
20.7 days with precipitation
18.4 days with precipitation
13.6 days with precipitation
10.7 days with precipitation
4.2 days with precipitation
4.3 days with precipitation
8.5 days with precipitation
16.0 days with precipitation
21.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
21.7 days with precipitation
Battle Ground's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 39% 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 26.4°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 8.0"
- Driest month
- July, 0.6"
- Wettest three months
- December, November, January (44% 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 Battle Ground's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 179 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 52.4" 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.
Snow reaches Battle Ground, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 1.4 inches of snow a year here, most likely in January. 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 2 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
October 16
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 26
50% probability date
Growing Season
173 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,303
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
164
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WA closest to Battle Ground 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 (51°F here).
- Belington, WV 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Bland, VA 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Des Moines, IA 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Falls City, OR 51°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (52.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Westfield, MA 52.4" · 0.0" off
- Inverness, FL 52.4" · 0.0" off
- Stendal, IN 52.3" · 0.0" off
- Bradfordsville, KY 52.4" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Battle Ground's climate pattern fits together
heating led · wet · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Battle Ground, at 5,303 degree days versus 164 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 26.4°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
Battle Ground's frost-free season lasts about 173 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
Battle Ground's 26.4°F seasonal spread is compact even though precipitation is abundant. August and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar. The annual average is 51°F. Temperature is relatively steady; the monthly rows show how rain and snow observations vary across the calendar.
Alongside its heating load, Battle Ground carries 52.4 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Annual snowfall totals 1.4 inches. That distinction matters because a wet annual total can arrive as rain, snow, or a mixture at different times.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Battle Ground'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 Battle Ground, 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 Battle Ground's primary station: BATTLE GROUND (USC00450482). 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 5304475). Match rule for Battle Ground: 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 Battle Ground 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.