Cascade Locks, OR Climate: Temperature by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Cascade Locks's primary NOAA station, CASCADE LOCKS.
The climate verdict for Cascade Locks
Cascade Locks, Oregon has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 53°F. August is the warmest month at 69°F and January the coldest at 38°F.
- 53°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 241 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Cascade Locks: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00351407 · Cascade Locks, OR 53°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 53°F
- RANK-MID #3,568
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Strawberry Vall…
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 32°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 4,855 HDD
- STN-1 USC00351407
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Strawberry Valley, CA (+ 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 OR station list.
- Cascade Locks (this station) 53°F
- Cold Detroit Dam, OR 53°F
- Hot Cataloochee, NC 53°F
- Near Strawberry Vall…, CA 53°F
- Near Cougar, WA 53°F
Climate Living Index · Cascade Locks
Cascade Locks: 77/100 · grade B
Cascade Locks publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Cascade Locks, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 14 calendar days | 99/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 241 days/year | 85/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 52.6°F · 14.9° from 67.5°F | 51/100 · D |
Cascade Locks · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Cascade Locks sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Cascade Locks are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- 52nd percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 88%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Cascade Locks is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 42°F (5°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 38°F (3°C) | N/A | 10.6 | 0.0 |
| February | 48°F (9°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | N/A | 12.1 | 0.0 |
| March | 54°F (12°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 45°F (7°C) | N/A | 9.2 | 0.0 |
| April | 61°F (16°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 51°F (10°C) | N/A | 0.9 | 0.0 |
| May | 68°F (20°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 57°F (14°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| June | 73°F (23°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 63°F (17°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 1.7 |
| July | 80°F (27°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 68°F (20°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 5.1 |
| August | 82°F (28°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 69°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 7.3 |
| September | 76°F (25°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 64°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 2.1 |
| October | 63°F (17°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 54°F (12°C) | N/A | 1.1 | 0.0 |
| November | 50°F (10°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 45°F (7°C) | N/A | 6.2 | 0.0 |
| December | 43°F (6°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 38°F (3°C) | N/A | 15.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 83°F around August 4, short of 90°F on every date, while 14 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 32°F near December 22.
The freezing stretch
Freezing normal lows set in around December 18, covering 14 dates.
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.
The widest day
September 2 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 27°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Cascade Locks.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 20
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 24
50% probability date
Growing Season
241 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,855
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
363
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside OR closest to Cascade Locks 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 (53°F here).
- Buckhannon, WV 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Christiansburg, VA 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Cincinnati, OH 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Elyria, OH 53°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Cascade Locks's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Cascade Locks's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 4,855 annual heating degree days against 363 for cooling. Its 31.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
The frost-free window extends for about 241 days. That is a long calendar measure, but it is not a forecast and does not combine heat, rainfall, soil, or local elevation into a planting recommendation.
August and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Cascade Locks's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 31.7°F. The annual average is 53°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Cascade Locks's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Cascade Locks's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Cascade Locks, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Cascade Locks'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 Cascade Locks's primary station: CASCADE LOCKS (USC00351407). 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 an incorporated place (GEOID 4111600). Match rule for Cascade Locks: 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 Cascade Locks 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.