Buckboard Marina, WY Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Buckboard Marina's primary NOAA station, BUCKBOARD MARINA.
The climate verdict for Buckboard Marina
Dryness leads the climate profile for Buckboard Marina, Wyoming, with 7.8 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 44°F. At 29/100 (below average) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 1% of scores.
- 44°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 29/100
- comfort score, above 1% of station-mapped location scores
- 7.8"
- annual precipitation · 30" snow
- 122 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Buckboard Marina: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00481131 · Buckboard Marina, WY 44°F mean · 7.8" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 44°F
- RANK-COOL #1,029
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Durham
- PRCP-ARID 7.8"
- SWING-WIDE 48°F
- COMF-LOW 29/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,936 HDD
- STN-1 USC00481131
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Durham, ME (+ 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 WY station list.
- Buckboard Marina (this station) 44°F
- Cold Rawlins, WY 44°F
- Hot Howe, ID 44°F
- Near Durham, ME 44°F
- Near Bridgton, ME 44°F
Buckboard Marina sits in Wyoming, the #5 coldest U.S. state at 43.3°F statewide annual average - see all 50 coldest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Buckboard Marina
Buckboard Marina: 15/100 · grade F
Buckboard Marina publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Buckboard Marina, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 29/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 29.7 inches/year | 39/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 43.9°F · 23.6° from 67.5°F | 16/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 206 calendar days | 11/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 122 days/year | 8/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 7.8 in · 27.2 from 35 in | 7/100 · F |
Buckboard Marina · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Buckboard Marina's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSk
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: cold semi-arid steppe (BSk). Class BSk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 68.7°F
- Coldest month
- 20.8°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 Buckboard Marina sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Buckboard Marina's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 85%
- Among 6,861 stations, Buckboard Marina sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 97%
- Buckboard Marina's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 72%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Buckboard Marina is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Buckboard Marina compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Buckboard Marina's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
29 1st percentile score exceeds 1% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Above this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Above this entry.
- 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 | 34°F (1°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 0.3" | 5.6" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 37°F (3°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 0.3" | 7.2" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 47°F (8°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 0.5" | 4.0" | 29.8 | 0.0 |
| April | 56°F (13°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 0.7" | 1.5" | 23.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 67°F (19°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.2" | 0.2" | 7.8 | 0.1 |
| June | 78°F (26°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 0.7 | 4.0 |
| July | 86°F (30°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 13.3 |
| August | 85°F (29°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 7.5 |
| September | 75°F (24°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 3.1 | 0.8 |
| October | 60°F (16°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 0.9" | 1.4" | 20.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 45°F (7°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 0.4" | 2.7" | 28.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 35°F (2°C) | 10°F (-12°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 0.3" | 7.1" | 30.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 88°F around July 25, short of 90°F on every date, while 206 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 7°F near January 7.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 1, then returns to freezing around October 9, covering 206 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 May 17, when 22% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is March 8 at 12%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 55 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 16 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 36°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Buckboard Marina.
Where Buckboard Marina Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 206 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 8 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Buckboard Marina 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
Snow: 5.6"
3.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.2"
4.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.0"
3.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.5"
4.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
7.4 days with precipitation
4.2 days with precipitation
3.9 days with precipitation
5.0 days with precipitation
5.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.4"
4.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.7"
3.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.1"
4.4 days with precipitation
Buckboard Marina spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 29% of the annual total and December through February 13%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Buckboard Marina has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 47.9°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 1.2" and January 0.3". The three wettest months together take 40% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
Buckboard Marina is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 55 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 15% of the calendar, and they carry 7.8" between them. At roughly 0.14 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 May at about 7 wet days; the driest is January at about 4.
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 Buckboard Marina
Buckboard Marina averages 29.7 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 18 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: 29.7 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 18 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 38% 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
September 23
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 24
50% probability date
Growing Season
122 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,936
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
276
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WY closest to Buckboard Marina 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 (44°F here).
- Bethel, ME 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Carter, MT 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Colton, NY 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Del Norte, CO 44°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (7.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Gerlach, NV 7.8" · 0.0" off
- Rachel, NV 7.8" · 0.0" off
- Searchlight, NV 7.8" · 0.0" off
- Farmington, NM 7.8" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Buckboard Marina
heating led · dry · mid swing
Buckboard Marina's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,936 annual heating degree days against 276 for cooling. Its 47.9°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 122 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. Buckboard Marina coldest normal
January
Averaging 21°F (-6°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Buckboard Marina typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Buckboard Marina snow peak
February
Buckboard Marina averages 29.7 inches of snow a year, with February 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 Buckboard Marina's primary station: BUCKBOARD MARINA (USC00481131). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Buckboard Marina; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Buckboard Marina 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.