Bouse, AZ Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Bouse's primary NOAA station, BOUSE.
The climate verdict for Bouse
Bouse, Arizona is cooling-led and dry. Its 5.7 inches of annual precipitation pairs with an annual average of 71°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.
- 71°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 77/100
- comfort score, above 70% of station-mapped location scores
- 5.7"
- yearly precipitation total
- 283 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Bouse: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00020949 · Bouse, AZ 71°F mean · 5.7" precip
TEMP-HOT · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-COOL · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-HOT 71°F
- RANK-WARM #6,587
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Callville Bay
- PRCP-ARID 5.7"
- SWING-MID 43°F
- COMF-TOP 77/100
- LOAD-COOL 3,861 CDD
- STN-1 USC00020949
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Callville Bay, NV (+ 0.4 °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 AZ station list.
- Hot Maricopa, AZ 72°F
- Near Callville Bay, NV 72°F
- Near Youngtown, AZ 72°F
- Bouse (this station) 71°F
- Cold Boquillas Range…, TX 71°F
Climate Living Index · Bouse
Bouse: 59/100 · grade C
Bouse publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Bouse, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 77/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 283 days/year | 98/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 71.3°F · 3.8° from 67.5°F | 89/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 165 calendar days | 36/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 5.7 in · 29.3 from 35 in | 2/100 · F |
Bouse · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Bouse'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
- 93.3°F
- Coldest month
- 50.0°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 Bouse sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Bouse's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 4% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Bouse sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 99%
- Bouse's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 50th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Bouse compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Bouse'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
Bouse's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 56 complete annual observations from 1953 to 2016, BOUSE warmed at a fitted rate of 0.23°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Bouse primary station fitted change +0.23 °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 | 66°F (19°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 7.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 70°F (21°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 3.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 78°F (26°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.8 | 2.0 |
| April | 86°F (30°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 10.5 |
| May | 95°F (35°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 78°F (26°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 24.1 |
| June | 105°F (41°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 87°F (31°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 29.2 |
| July | 108°F (42°C) | 78°F (26°C) | 93°F (34°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 31.0 |
| August | 107°F (42°C) | 78°F (25°C) | 92°F (34°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 30.9 |
| September | 101°F (38°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 85°F (29°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 28.8 |
| October | 89°F (31°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 15.5 |
| November | 75°F (24°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 2.1 | 0.6 |
| December | 64°F (18°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 11.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Bouse runs from a mild 36°F around December 16 to 109°F at the peak near July 15, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from May 1 through October 12, covering 165 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs February 14 to November 25.
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 36°F around December 16.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is February 20, when 13% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 7 at 2%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 27 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 6 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 37°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Bouse.
Where Bouse Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 165 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 6 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Bouse 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
3.1 days with precipitation
4.0 days with precipitation
2.8 days with precipitation
1.0 days with precipitation
0.7 days with precipitation
0.3 days with precipitation
2.9 days with precipitation
3.5 days with precipitation
2.4 days with precipitation
1.8 days with precipitation
1.5 days with precipitation
2.9 days with precipitation
Bouse's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 37% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 22%. 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 43.3°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 0.8"
- Driest month
- June, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- February, September, August (41% 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 Bouse's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 27 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 5.7" between them, or roughly 0.21 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.
Bouse'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
November 28
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
February 18
50% probability date
Growing Season
283 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
1,536
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
3,861
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AZ closest to Bouse 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 (71°F here).
- Crescent City, FL 71°F · 0.0°F off
- Ocala, FL 71°F · 0.0°F off
- Point Comfort, TX 71°F · 0.0°F off
- Live Oak, FL 71°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (5.7" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Nuiqsut, AK 5.7" · 0.0" off
- Mojave, CA 5.8" · 0.1" off
- Mina, NV 5.6" · 0.1" off
- Victorville, CA 5.6" · 0.1" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Bouse's limited precipitation lands
cooling led · dry · mid swing
Air-conditioning demand is the clearest thermal signal here. Bouse accumulates 3,861 cooling degree days, more than twice its 1,536 heating total; the monthly table shows when that imbalance builds rather than treating it as a year-round condition.
Heat demand sits beside limited local precipitation: Bouse receives 5.7 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.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Bouse's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 43.3°F. The annual average is 71°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Bouse has a long frost-free window of roughly 283 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
Bouse wettest normal
February
February concentrates the scarce annual total (5.7 inches).
Bouse 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 Bouse's primary station: BOUSE (USC00020949). 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 0407310), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Bouse: 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 Bouse 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.