Bickleton, WA 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 Bickleton's primary NOAA station, BICKLETON.
The climate verdict for Bickleton
Dryness leads the climate profile for Bickleton, Washington, with 15.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 46°F. At 49/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 18% of scores.
- 46°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 15.0"
- annual precipitation · 31" snow
- 146 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Bickleton: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00450668 · Bickleton, WA 46°F mean · 15.0" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 46°F
- RANK-COOL #1,715
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Northport
- PRCP-DRY 15.0"
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,061 HDD
- STN-1 USC00450668
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Northport, 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.
- Bickleton (this station) 46°F
- Cold Lindrith, NM 46°F
- Hot Rifle, CO 46°F
- Near Northport, WA 46°F
- Near Libby Dam, MT 46°F
Climate Living Index · Bickleton
Bickleton: 33/100 · grade F
Bickleton publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Bickleton, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 148 calendar days | 48/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 30.6 inches/year | 38/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 15.0 in · 20.0 from 35 in | 28/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 46.4°F · 21.1° from 67.5°F | 25/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 146 days/year | 22/100 · F |
Bickleton · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Bickleton is a continental Köppen climate: Dsb
Coldest-month mean 28.5°F and warmest-month mean 67.2°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Dsb). Class Dsb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 67.2°F
- Coldest month
- 28.5°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 Bickleton sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Bickleton's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 75%
- Among 6,861 stations, Bickleton sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 83%
- Bickleton's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 70%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Bickleton is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Bickleton compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Bickleton's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
49 18th percentile score exceeds 18% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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 | 35°F (2°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 2.0" | 8.1" | 25.6 | 0.0 |
| February | 39°F (4°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 1.6" | 5.1" | 23.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 46°F (8°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 1.5" | 1.5" | 21.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 53°F (12°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 1.0" | 0.6" | 12.9 | 0.0 |
| May | 62°F (17°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.3" | 0.6" | 4.1 | 0.1 |
| June | 70°F (21°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| July | 81°F (27°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 6.6 |
| August | 80°F (27°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 5.8 |
| September | 71°F (22°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 0.9 |
| October | 56°F (14°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 1.0" | 0.2" | 7.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 42°F (6°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 2.1" | 2.4" | 20.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 34°F (1°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 2.5" | 12.1" | 27.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 84°F around July 27, short of 90°F on every date, while 148 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 23°F near December 20.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 28, then returns to freezing around November 2, covering 148 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 10, when 36% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 15 at 6%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 78 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 26 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 28°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Bickleton.
Where Bickleton Stands Nationally
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 15 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Bickleton 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: 8.1"
10.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.1"
8.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.5"
8.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
7.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
6.1 days with precipitation
4.1 days with precipitation
2.0 days with precipitation
2.0 days with precipitation
1.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
6.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.4"
9.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 12.1"
11.0 days with precipitation
Bickleton's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 41% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 9%. 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 38.7°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 2.5"
- Driest month
- July, 0.3"
- 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.
Bickleton is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 77 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 21% of the calendar, and they carry 15.0" between them. At roughly 0.19 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 December at about 11 wet days; the driest is September at about 2.
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.
Winter brings real snow to Bickleton
Bickleton averages 30.6 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 16 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: 30.6 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 16 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 20% 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
October 9
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 16
50% probability date
Growing Season
146 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,061
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
319
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WA closest to Bickleton 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 (46°F here).
- Bad Axe, MI 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Bridgewater, SD 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Camp Crook, SD 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Centerville, SD 46°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (15.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Pilot Rock, OR 15.0" · 0.0" off
- Polson, MT 15.0" · 0.0" off
- Santa Rosa, NM 15.0" · 0.0" off
- Sheffield, TX 15.0" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Bickleton
heating led · dry · mid swing
Bickleton's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,061 annual heating degree days against 319 for cooling. Its 38.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 146 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. Bickleton coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 29°F (-2°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Bickleton typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Bickleton snow peak
December
Bickleton averages 30.6 inches of snow a year, with December 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 Bickleton's primary station: BICKLETON (USC00450668). 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 a census-designated place (GEOID 5305980), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Bickleton: 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 Bickleton 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.