Bellevue, Nebraska climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Bellevue's center at January lows of 14°F and July highs of 86°F, a yearly mean of 51.3°F and 32.9 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Glenwood (13 miles SE, 980 ft), has January lows of 12°F and July highs of 87°F.
64,777 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 33° 14°
- Feb 38° 18°
- Mar 51° 29°
- Apr 63° 40°
- May 74° 51°
- Jun 83° 62°
- Jul 86° 66°
- Aug 84° 64°
- Sep 78° 54°
- Oct 65° 42°
- Nov 50° 29°
- Dec 37° 19°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
The months above are NOAA's gridded normals at Bellevue's center.
What is each month like in Bellevue?
NOAA's grid estimates the normals every 5 km or so from the stations around each point, terrain included. It smooths between stations, so night lows at the heart of a large city can run warmer than the grid shows: at five big-city airports we compared, the grid's highs were within about 1°F of the station and its lows 1-6°F cooler. The nearest record's high and low are beside each month.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Glenwood high | Glenwood low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 33°F | 14°F | 23.6°F | 0.83 | 33°F | 12°F |
| February | 38°F | 18°F | 28.2°F | 0.98 | 38°F | 16°F |
| March | 51°F | 29°F | 40.2°F | 1.84 | 52°F | 28°F |
| April | 63°F | 40°F | 51.5°F | 3.28 | 64°F | 38°F |
| May | 74°F | 51°F | 62.2°F | 4.99 | 74°F | 50°F |
| June | 83°F | 62°F | 72.5°F | 4.97 | 83°F | 61°F |
| July | 86°F | 66°F | 76.1°F | 3.75 | 87°F | 65°F |
| August | 84°F | 64°F | 73.9°F | 3.97 | 85°F | 62°F |
| September | 78°F | 54°F | 66.2°F | 3.14 | 79°F | 53°F |
| October | 65°F | 42°F | 53.5°F | 2.50 | 67°F | 40°F |
| November | 50°F | 29°F | 39.4°F | 1.38 | 51°F | 28°F |
| December | 37°F | 19°F | 28.0°F | 1.25 | 38°F | 18°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 10.7°C, January lows of −10°C, July highs of 30°C and 835 mm of precipitation a year.
Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Monthly Gridded Climate Normals 1991-2020 (nClimGrid, accession 0245564); NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 station normals. The grid cell holding the city's Census center point.
What do the station records around Bellevue say?
Each row is a NOAA station's own 1991-2020 normals, with the snow and frost dates the grid does not give. A record downhill or nearer the coast than the city can run warmer, one uphill cooler: compare the elevations.
| Record | Where | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenwood3 mi SW | 13 mi SE | 980 ft | 50.9°F | 12°F | 87°F | 34.8 | 24 | April 23 |
| Springfield7 mi E | 7 mi SW | 1,065 ft | 50.6°F | 13°F | 86°F | 33.1 | – | April 17 |
| OmahaOmaha Eppley Airfield | 12 mi N | 982 ft | 52.4°F | 15°F | 88°F | 31.9 | 27 | April 18 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals; place center and population: Census Bureau 2024. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
How much snow, how late a frost, what zone and how much sun in Bellevue?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Glenwood (13 miles SE, 980 ft). It gets 24 inches of snow in a normal year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 23 in half of years and the first autumn frost before October 11. Its record high is 115°F (1936) and its record low −30°F (1983) (kept since 1893).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bellevue in zones 5b to 6a across its 4 ZIP code areas.
Over a year 76% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (4.2 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); July is the sunniest month (83%) and December the cloudiest (69%).
Glenwood's page has its months, frost probabilities, records by month and recent years. NOAA's grid has monthly figures only, so there are no day-by-day month pages for Bellevue; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USC00133290; records: ACIS; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; sunshine: NASA POWER.
How does the climate vary across Bellevue, ZIP code by ZIP code?
4 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Bellevue. On NOAA's grid 68005 is the warmest (51.3°F a year) and 68157 the coolest (51.1°F), so the city is nearly uniform. Each row also names the nearest station record and its frost dates.
| ZIP code | Zone | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Nearest record | Last frost | First frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68005 | 5b | 51.3°F | 14°F | 87°F | 32.9 | Springfield (8 mi) | April 17 | October 19 |
| 68123 | 5b | 51.3°F | 14°F | 87°F | 32.9 | Springfield (4 mi) | April 17 | October 19 |
| 68147 | 6a | 51.2°F | 14°F | 86°F | 33.0 | Springfield (8 mi) | April 17 | October 19 |
| 68157 | 6a | 51.1°F | 15°F | 86°F | 33.1 | Springfield (8 mi) | April 17 | October 19 |
Source: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file and ZCTA centers; NOAA NCEI gridded and station normals, 1991-2020. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) is in the city; its figures are the grid cell at its center; frost dates are the nearest record's medians of 32°F.