Cabin Creek, CO Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Cabin Creek's primary NOAA station, CABIN CREEK.
The climate verdict for Cabin Creek
Cabin Creek, Colorado has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 38°F. At 44/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 10% of scores.
- 38°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 21.6"
- annual precipitation · 154" snow
- 105 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Cabin Creek: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00051186 · Cabin Creek, CO 38°F mean · 21.6" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 38°F
- RANK-COOL #206
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pinedale
- PRCP-DRY 21.6"
- SWING-MID 36°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 9,999 HDD
- STN-1 USC00051186
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Pinedale, WY (+ 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 CO station list.
- Cabin Creek (this station) 38°F
- Hot Big Sky, MT 38°F
- Near Pinedale, WY 38°F
- Near Anchorage Upper…, AK 38°F
- Near Anchorage, AK 38°F
Climate Living Index · Cabin Creek
Cabin Creek: 10/100 · grade F
Cabin Creek publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Cabin Creek, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 21.6 in · 13.4 from 35 in | 53/100 · D |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 227 calendar days | 3/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 37.5°F · 30.0° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 105 days/year | 0/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 153.7 inches/year | 0/100 · F |
Cabin Creek · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Cabin Creek is a continental Köppen climate: Dfc
Coldest-month mean 21.5°F and warmest-month mean 57.4°F place this station in continental, no dry season, cool summer climates (Dfc). Class Dfc is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, cool summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfc
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 57.4°F
- Coldest month
- 21.5°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 Cabin Creek sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Cabin Creek's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 97%
- Among 6,861 stations, Cabin Creek sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 70%
- Cabin Creek'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 Cabin Creek is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Cabin Creek compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Cabin Creek's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
44 10th percentile score exceeds 10% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Cabin Creek's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 36 complete annual observations from 1968 to 2025, CABIN CREEK warmed at a fitted rate of 0.24°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Cabin Creek primary station fitted change +0.24 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32°F (0°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 1.0" | 15.9" | 30.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 32°F (0°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 1.2" | 19.3" | 27.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 38°F (3°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 2.0" | 24.9" | 30.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 43°F (6°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 2.8" | 28.4" | 28.1 | 0.0 |
| May | 53°F (11°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 2.1" | 11.9" | 19.6 | 0.0 |
| June | 64°F (18°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.6" | 0.3" | 5.3 | 0.0 |
| July | 69°F (21°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 2.8" | 0.0" | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| August | 67°F (19°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 2.6" | 0.1" | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| September | 61°F (16°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 1.6" | 2.1" | 8.2 | 0.0 |
| October | 50°F (10°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 1.4" | 10.4" | 22.7 | 0.0 |
| November | 39°F (4°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 1.3" | 20.1" | 28.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 32°F (0°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 1.2" | 20.3" | 30.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 70°F around July 15, short of 90°F on every date, while 227 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 11°F near February 6.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 18, then returns to freezing around October 5, covering 227 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 August 4, when 46% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is October 19 at 23%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 112 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 25 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 25°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Cabin Creek.
Where Cabin Creek Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 227 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Cabin Creek earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 15.9"
7.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 19.3"
8.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 24.9"
9.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 28.4"
10.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.9"
9.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
8.1 days with precipitation
13.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
14.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.1"
9.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.4"
7.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 20.1"
7.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 20.3"
7.8 days with precipitation
Cabin Creek spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 32% of the annual total and December through February 16%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Cabin Creek has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 35.9°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: April averages 2.8" and January 1.0". The three wettest months together take 38% 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.
Cabin Creek is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 112 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 31% of the calendar, and they carry 21.6" 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 August at about 14 wet days; the driest is November at about 7.
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 Cabin Creek
Cabin Creek averages 153.7 inches of snowfall a year, with April the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 59 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: 153.7 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 59 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 71% 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 19
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 6
50% probability date
Growing Season
105 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
9,999
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
February
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CO closest to Cabin Creek 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 (38°F here).
- Big Falls, MN 38°F · 0.0°F off
- Bondurant, WY 38°F · 0.0°F off
- Pinedale, WY 38°F · 0.0°F off
- Willow City, ND 38°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (21.6" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Murdo, SD 21.6" · 0.0" off
- Cimarron, KS 21.6" · 0.0" off
- Silverton, TX 21.7" · 0.0" off
- Raynesford, MT 21.6" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Cabin Creek
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Cabin Creek's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 9,999 annual heating degree days against 1 for cooling. Its 35.9°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 105 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. Cabin Creek coldest normal
February
Averaging 22°F (-6°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Cabin Creek typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Cabin Creek snow peak
April
Cabin Creek averages 153.7 inches of snow a year, with April 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 Cabin Creek's primary station: CABIN CREEK (USC00051186). 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 Cabin Creek; 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 Cabin Creek 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.