Buttonwillow, 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 Buttonwillow's primary NOAA station, BUTTONWILLOW.
The climate verdict for Buttonwillow
Dryness leads the climate profile for Buttonwillow, California, with 6.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 65°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.
- 65°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 77/100
- comfort score, above 70% of station-mapped location scores
- 6.0"
- yearly precipitation total
- 290 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Buttonwillow: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00041244 · Buttonwillow, CA 65°F mean · 6.0" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 65°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,969
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Amargosa Farms-…
- PRCP-ARID 6.0"
- SWING-MID 36°F
- COMF-TOP 77/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00041244
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Amargosa Farms-garey, NV (+ 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.
- Buttonwillow (this station) 65°F
- Hot Burbank Valley…, CA 65°F
- Near Amargosa Farms-…, NV 65°F
- Near Archer City, TX 65°F
- Near Ardmore, OK 65°F
Climate Living Index · Buttonwillow
Buttonwillow: 71/100 · grade B
Buttonwillow publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Buttonwillow, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 77/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 290 days/year | 100/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 64.5°F · 3.0° from 67.5°F | 91/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 107 calendar days | 72/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 6.0 in · 29.0 from 35 in | 3/100 · F |
Buttonwillow · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Buttonwillow'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
- 82.7°F
- Coldest month
- 46.9°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 · balanced station
Where Buttonwillow sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Buttonwillow's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 13% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Buttonwillow sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 99%
- Buttonwillow's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 80%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Buttonwillow is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Buttonwillow compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Buttonwillow'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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 58°F (14°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 1.2" | 0.0" | 7.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 64°F (18°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 2.6 | 0.0 |
| March | 70°F (21°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| April | 76°F (24°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.4 |
| May | 84°F (29°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 9.9 |
| June | 92°F (34°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 20.2 |
| July | 98°F (37°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 83°F (28°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 29.5 |
| August | 97°F (36°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 28.1 |
| September | 91°F (33°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 19.7 |
| October | 81°F (27°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 4.5 |
| November | 67°F (20°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 3.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 58°F (15°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 10.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Buttonwillow runs from a mild 35°F around December 14 to 98°F at the peak near July 21, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 7 through September 21, covering 107 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 18 to November 8.
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 35°F around December 14.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is February 27, when 21% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 30 at 0%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 32 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 19 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 31°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Buttonwillow.
Where Buttonwillow Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 107 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.
Buttonwillow 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
6.3 days with precipitation
6.0 days with precipitation
5.4 days with precipitation
2.8 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
0.2 days with precipitation
0.2 days with precipitation
0.1 days with precipitation
0.3 days with precipitation
1.5 days with precipitation
2.7 days with precipitation
5.0 days with precipitation
Buttonwillow's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 54% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 2%. 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 35.8°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- January, 1.2"
- Driest month
- August, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- January, March, February (57% 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.
Buttonwillow is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 32 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 9% of the calendar, and they carry 6.0" between them. At roughly 0.19 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 January at about 6 wet days; the driest is August at about 0.
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.
Buttonwillow'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 26
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
February 9
50% probability date
Growing Season
290 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,247
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
2,086
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Buttonwillow 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 (65°F here).
- Archer City, TX 65°F · 0.0°F off
- Ardmore, OK 65°F · 0.0°F off
- Conway, SC 65°F · 0.0°F off
- Douglas, AZ 65°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (6.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Fort Duchesne, UT 6.0" · 0.0" off
- Bunkerville, NV 5.9" · 0.1" off
- Topaz Lake, NV 5.9" · 0.1" off
- Lovelock, NV 6.1" · 0.1" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Buttonwillow's limited precipitation lands
mixed demand · dry · mid swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 6.0 inches annually, within PlainClimate's dry band. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. The monthly distribution matters because the total alone does not reveal the timing.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Buttonwillow's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 35.8°F. The annual average is 65°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Buttonwillow's normal, at 2,247 and 2,086 degree days respectively. Neither total exceeds the other by more than two to one, so the record is better read as a mixed-demand calendar than as heating-led or cooling-led.
Buttonwillow has a long frost-free window of roughly 290 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
Buttonwillow wettest normal
January
January concentrates the scarce annual total (6.0 inches).
Buttonwillow driest normal
August
August is typically driest; arid stations are defined by when water is absent, not by a four-season grid.
Questions about Buttonwillow's climate
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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 Buttonwillow's primary station: BUTTONWILLOW (USC00041244). 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 0609332), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Buttonwillow: 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 Buttonwillow 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.