Brookings, OR 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 Brookings's primary NOAA station, BROOKINGS - 2 stations mapped to the area.
The climate verdict for Brookings
Water is the standout signal in Brookings, Oregon: 77.6 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 54°F. At 53/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 54°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 53/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 77.6"
- precipitation, annual total
- 330 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Brookings: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00351058 · Brookings, OR 54°F mean · 77.6" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-MULTI · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 54°F
- RANK-MID #3,911
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Gold Beach Rang…
- PRCP-WET 77.6"
- SWING-NARROW 12°F
- COMF-LOW 53/100
- LOAD-HEAT 4,080 HDD
- STN-MULTI USC00351058
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Gold Beach Ranger Station, OR (+ 0.1 °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 OR station list.
- Brookings (this station) 54°F
- Hot Gold Beach Rang…, OR 54°F
- Near Fort Ross, CA 54°F
- Near Bodega, CA 54°F
- Cold Port Orford, OR 53°F
Climate Living Index · Brookings
Brookings: 65/100 · grade C
Brookings publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Brookings, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 53/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 330 days/year | 100/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 0 calendar days | 100/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 53.9°F · 13.6° from 67.5°F | 56/100 · C |
| Precipitation balance | 77.6 in · 42.6 from 35 in | 0/100 · F |
Brookings · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Brookings is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 47.9°F and warmest-month mean 60.1°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
- 60.1°F
- Coldest month
- 47.9°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 Brookings sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Brookings's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 57th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 1% wettest
- Brookings's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 99%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Brookings is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Brookings compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Brookings's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
53 31st percentile score exceeds 31% 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 54°F (12°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 12.6" | 1.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 55°F (13°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 9.9" | 0.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 55°F (13°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 9.9" | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 58°F (14°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 7.1" | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| May | 62°F (17°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 3.4" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| June | 65°F (18°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 2.1" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| July | 67°F (19°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 0.4" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| August | 66°F (19°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 0.7" | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| September | 67°F (19°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 1.5" | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| October | 63°F (17°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 5.0" | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| November | 57°F (14°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 11.1" | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 53°F (12°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 14.1" | 1.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The calendar barely moves in Brookings: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 42°F near December 15 and 67°F near September 8.
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 42°F around December 15.
The widest day
September 20 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 15°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Brookings.
Where Brookings Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 78 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Among the steadiest day-night climates ranked: even the widest normal daily swing holds to roughly 15°F.
Brookings earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Brookings's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 47% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 4%. 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 12.2°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 14.1"
- Driest month
- July, 0.4"
- Wettest three months
- December, January, November (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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
December 27
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
January 31
50% probability date
Growing Season
330 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,080
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
28
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside OR closest to Brookings 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 (54°F here).
- Dayton, OH 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Glenville, WV 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Hanksville, UT 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Healy, KS 54°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (77.6" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Kodiak, AK 78.3" · 0.7" off
- Klamath, CA 78.9" · 1.3" off
- Brevard, NC 75.6" · 2.0" off
- Grayland, WA 75.2" · 2.4" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Brookings's climate pattern fits together
heating led · wet · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Brookings, at 4,080 degree days versus 28 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 12.2°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
The frost-free window extends for about 330 days. That is a long calendar measure, but it is not a forecast and does not combine heat, rainfall, soil, or local elevation into a planting recommendation.
Brookings's 12.2°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 54°F. Temperature is relatively steady; the monthly rows show how rain and snow observations vary across the calendar.
Alongside its heating load, Brookings carries 77.6 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. 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 Brookings'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 Brookings, 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 Brookings's primary station: BROOKINGS (USC00351058). 2 NOAA stations are mapped to the Brookings area; the primary station's record is used for consistency. 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 4108650). Match rule for Brookings: 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 Brookings 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.