Buras, LA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Buras's primary NOAA station, BURAS.
The climate verdict for Buras
Warm-season cooling demand defines Buras, Louisiana, running at more than twice its heating total. The NOAA normal records an annual average of 70°F. It scores 76/100 for climate comfort (good), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 69% of them.
- 70°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 76/100
- comfort score, above 69% of station-mapped location scores
- 62.8"
- yearly precipitation total
Buras: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00161292 · Buras, LA 70°F mean · 62.8" precip
TEMP-HOT · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-TOP · LOAD-COOL · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-HOT 70°F
- RANK-WARM #6,518
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Folkston
- PRCP-WET 62.8"
- SWING-NARROW 29°F
- COMF-TOP 76/100
- LOAD-COOL 2,995 CDD
- STN-1 USC00161292
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Folkston, GA (+ 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 LA station list.
- Buras (this station) 70°F
- Cold Lsu Citrus Rsch, LA 70°F
- Hot Folkston, GA 70°F
- Near Fernandina Beach, FL 70°F
- Near Mayport Pilot, FL 70°F
Buras sits in Louisiana, the #3 hottest U.S. state at 67.3°F statewide annual average - see all 50 hottest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Buras
Buras: 77/100 · grade B
Buras publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Buras, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 76/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 0 calendar days | 100/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 70.3°F · 2.8° from 67.5°F | 91/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Precipitation balance | 62.8 in · 27.8 from 35 in | 6/100 · F |
Buras · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Buras is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfa
Coldest-month mean 54.3°F and warmest-month mean 83.2°F place this station in temperate, no dry season, hot summer climates (Cfa). Class Cfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Cfa
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 83.2°F
- Coldest month
- 54.3°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 Buras sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Buras's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 5% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Buras sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 4% wettest
- Buras's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 92%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Buras is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Buras compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Buras's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
76 Top 31% score exceeds 69% 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 62°F (17°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 5.4" | 0.0" | 1.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 66°F (19°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 4.2" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 71°F (22°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 4.8" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| April | 77°F (25°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| May | 83°F (28°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| June | 87°F (31°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 7.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.1 |
| July | 90°F (32°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 83°F (28°C) | 7.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 14.3 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 76°F (25°C) | 83°F (28°C) | 7.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 12.8 |
| September | 86°F (30°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 6.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.2 |
| October | 80°F (27°C) | 65°F (19°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 4.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| November | 72°F (22°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 3.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 65°F (19°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 3.9" | 0.0" | 0.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The calendar barely moves in Buras: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 46°F near January 9 and 90°F near July 22.
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 46°F around January 9.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is July 26, when 37% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is May 4 at 15%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 91 wet dates a year.
The widest day
December 19 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 16°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Buras.
Where Buras Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 63 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 16°F.
Buras 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
8.5 days with precipitation
6.9 days with precipitation
6.9 days with precipitation
4.5 days with precipitation
4.7 days with precipitation
9.7 days with precipitation
10.9 days with precipitation
10.6 days with precipitation
8.9 days with precipitation
6.1 days with precipitation
5.9 days with precipitation
7.6 days with precipitation
Buras spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 34% of the annual total and December through February 22%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Buras has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry an unusually narrow 28.9°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: July averages 7.2" and November 3.6". The three wettest months together take 34% 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.
When it rains in Buras, it arrives in quantity
62.8" of precipitation falls across only about 91 wet days here, averaging 0.69 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 91 a year, 25% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.69 inches
- Most wet days
- July, about 11
- Fewest wet days
- April, about 5
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Buras'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
January 4
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
January 25
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
1,054
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
2,995
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside LA closest to Buras 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 (70°F here).
- Baker, CA 70°F · 0.0°F off
- Deland, FL 70°F · 0.0°F off
- Folkston, GA 70°F · 0.0°F off
- Pleasanton, TX 70°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (62.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Liberty, TX 62.8" · 0.0" off
- Stuart, FL 62.7" · 0.1" off
- Cascadia, OR 63.1" · 0.3" off
- Wewahitchka, FL 63.1" · 0.3" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Buras's climate pattern fits together
cooling led · wet · low swing
Warm-season load persists through a relatively even calendar in Buras. Cooling totals 2,995 degree days, more than double the 1,054 heating measure, and the 28.9°F seasonal range is compact rather than sharply divided.
Warm-season demand is paired with a wet annual normal: 62.8 inches of precipitation at Buras. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. The month-by-month bars distinguish a concentrated wet season from moisture spread across the calendar.
Buras's 28.9°F seasonal spread is compact even though precipitation is abundant. July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar. The annual average is 70°F. Temperature is relatively steady; the monthly rows show how rain and snow observations vary across the calendar.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Buras. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Buras's primary station, so the summer figures are a thirty-year average rather than a ceiling: individual years have run hotter and will again. For Buras that means a descriptive range only — not an official NOAA classification and not a prediction for next summer.
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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 Buras's primary station: BURAS (USC00161292). 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 2210985), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Buras: 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 Buras 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.