Burney, CA 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 Burney's primary NOAA station, BURNEY.
The climate verdict for Burney
Burney, California has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 49°F. Its climate comfort score of 59/100 (moderate) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 37% of station-mapped location scores.
- 49°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 59/100
- comfort score, above 37% of station-mapped location scores
- 28.6"
- annual precipitation · 45" snow
- 103 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Burney: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00041214 · Burney, CA 49°F mean · 28.6" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 49°F
- RANK-COOL #2,470
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Las Vegas Wwtp
- PRCP-MID 28.6"
- SWING-MID 36°F
- COMF-MID 59/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,083 HDD
- STN-1 USC00041214
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Las Vegas Wwtp, NM (+ 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 CA station list.
- Burney (this station) 49°F
- Cold Sexton Summit, OR 49°F
- Hot Ross Dam, WA 49°F
- Near Las Vegas Wwtp, NM 49°F
- Near Canyon Dam, CA 49°F
Climate Living Index · Burney
Burney: 28/100 · grade F
Burney publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Burney, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 59/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 28.6 in · 6.4 from 35 in | 77/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 49.0°F · 18.5° from 67.5°F | 36/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 44.5 inches/year | 24/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 220 calendar days | 5/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 103 days/year | 0/100 · F |
Burney · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Burney is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 32.8°F and warmest-month mean 68.5°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
- 68.5°F
- Coldest month
- 32.8°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 Burney sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Burney's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 36th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 38th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 81%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Burney is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Burney compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Burney's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
59 37th percentile score exceeds 37% 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 | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 45°F (7°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 4.5" | 8.9" | 27.4 | 0.0 |
| February | 49°F (9°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 5.2" | 9.5" | 24.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 55°F (13°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 4.0" | 6.9" | 25.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 62°F (16°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 2.8" | 2.0" | 19.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 72°F (22°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 1.9" | 0.2" | 8.0 | 1.7 |
| June | 81°F (27°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 1.4 | 5.3 |
| July | 90°F (32°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 18.3 |
| August | 88°F (31°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 14.6 |
| September | 82°F (28°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 4.1 | 7.8 |
| October | 68°F (20°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 1.3" | 0.0" | 20.2 | 1.1 |
| November | 52°F (11°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 2.5" | 5.7" | 23.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 44°F (6°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 4.8" | 11.3" | 25.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Burney works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 91°F by July 23 and hold at or above 90°F on 23 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 197 dates, bottoming at 22°F around December 22.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 15 through August 6, covering 23 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 9 to October 12.
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.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 22, then returns to freezing around October 9, covering 197 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 February 18, when 43% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 17 at 3%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 90 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 29 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 45°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Burney.
Where Burney Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 197 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 45°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Burney 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: 8.9"
10.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 9.5"
12.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.9"
12.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.0"
10.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
7.7 days with precipitation
4.4 days with precipitation
1.4 days with precipitation
1.1 days with precipitation
2.0 days with precipitation
5.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.7"
9.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.3"
12.2 days with precipitation
Burney's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 51% 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 a 35.7°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 5.2"
- Driest month
- August, 0.3"
- Wettest three months
- February, December, January (51% 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 Burney's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 89 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 28.6" between them, or roughly 0.32 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.
Winter brings real snow to Burney
Burney averages 44.5 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 17 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: 44.5 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 17 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 16% 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 14
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 3
50% probability date
Growing Season
103 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,083
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
271
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Burney 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 (49°F here).
- Altona, IL 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Cairo, NY 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Condon, OR 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Danville, OH 49°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (28.6" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Alton, KS 28.6" · 0.0" off
- Pipestone, MN 28.6" · 0.0" off
- San Saba, TX 28.6" · 0.0" off
- Plummer, ID 28.5" · 0.1" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Burney
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Burney's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,083 annual heating degree days against 271 for cooling. Its 35.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 103 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. Burney coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 33°F (0°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Burney typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Burney snow peak
December
Burney averages 44.5 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 Burney's primary station: BURNEY (USC00041214). 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 0609122), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Burney: 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 Burney 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.