Climate Comfort Score
54/100
Moderate
NOAA 1991–2020 normals Station-mapped location · no exact Census place match 52°F annual avg Public-domain federal data
Cathedral Gorge State Park, NV Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Average temperature, precipitation, and a comfort score, drawn from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →
- 52°F
- Avg annual temp
- 54/100
- Comfort score
- 11.2"
- Annual precip
- 142d
- Growing season
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Cathedral Gorge State Park's primary NOAA station, CATHEDRAL GORGE SP.
The climate verdict for Cathedral Gorge State Park
Dryness leads the climate profile for Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada, with 11.2 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 52°F. At 54/100 (moderate) the composite comfort score falls in the least temperate third of station-mapped US locations, milder than only 31% of them.
- 52°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 54/100
- comfort score, milder than 31% of station-mapped locations
- 11.2"
- annual precipitation · 12" snow
- 142 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Based on NOAA U.S. Climate Normals (1991–2020) - 30-year averages describing the typical year, not a forecast.
Avg Temperature
52°F (11°C)
Avg High
69°F
Avg Low
35°F
Annual Precip
11.2"
Annual Snow
12.1"
Comfort Score
54/100
Moderate
Avg Annual Temperature
52°F
30-year mean (NOAA NCEI)
Annual Precipitation
11.2"
Plus 12.1" of snow
Comfort score vs national 100-point ceiling (Cathedral Gorge State Park) 54.0%
National median (64)
PlainClimate composite, temperature mildness, humidity, precipitation, extreme-weather frequency. Moderate for the Cathedral Gorge State Park area.
How Cathedral Gorge State Park compares with its closest stations
Against the 6 closest stations in the record, Cathedral Gorge State Park averages 52°F a year, warmer than Spring Valley State Park, NV (45°F) and Modena, UT (51°F), and cooler than Caliente, NV (54°F) and Elgin, NV (60°F). On comfort score it places 2 of 5 in that local group.
Corpus-relative placement
Where Cathedral Gorge State Park sits across the climate record
These comparisons place this primary-station normal among station-mapped locations with the same NOAA 1991–2020 fields.
- Annual temperature
- Warmer than 49%
- of 6,861 measured location normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Wetter than 9%
- of 6,352 measured location normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Larger than 49%
- of 6,861 complete location-year normals.
How Cathedral Gorge State Park compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Cathedral Gorge State Park's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
54 31st percentile milder than 31% of 6,189 station-mapped locations
- 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 | 47°F (8°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 1.3" | 2.9" | 29.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 51°F (11°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 1.2" | 2.5" | 25.7 | 0.0 |
| March | 60°F (15°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.0" | 1.8" | 26.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 67°F (19°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 0.9" | 0.2" | 16.2 | 0.0 |
| May | 76°F (24°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 0.7" | 0.3" | 5.0 | 1.5 |
| June | 87°F (30°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.7 | 13.7 |
| July | 93°F (34°C) | 56°F (14°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 1.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 25.2 |
| August | 91°F (33°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 20.6 |
| September | 84°F (29°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 2.2 | 6.7 |
| October | 71°F (22°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 1.6" | 0.0" | 14.9 | 0.2 |
| November | 58°F (14°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 0.4" | 0.8" | 27.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 46°F (8°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 0.9" | 3.6" | 29.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Cathedral Gorge State Park works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 93°F by July 18 and hold at or above 90°F on 61 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 175 dates, bottoming at 17°F around December 12.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 26 through August 25, covering 61 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 29 to October 18.
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 13, then returns to freezing around October 22, covering 175 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 27, when 22% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 15 at 8%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 53 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 14 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 39°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Cathedral Gorge State Park.
Where Cathedral Gorge State Park Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 11 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 39°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Standing computed against the distribution of 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations in the PlainClimate database; only nationally notable standings are shown.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
January 1.3"
Snow: 2.9"
4.7 days with precipitation
February 1.2"
Snow: 2.5"
5.9 days with precipitation
March 1.0"
Snow: 1.8"
5.8 days with precipitation
April 0.9"
Snow: 0.2"
4.1 days with precipitation
May 0.7"
Snow: 0.3"
4.6 days with precipitation
June 0.3"
2.0 days with precipitation
July 1.2"
5.6 days with precipitation
August 1.0"
5.4 days with precipitation
September 0.7"
3.2 days with precipitation
October 1.6"
4.2 days with precipitation
November 0.4"
Snow: 0.8"
2.7 days with precipitation
December 0.9"
Snow: 3.6"
5.0 days with precipitation
Cathedral Gorge State Park spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 23% of the annual total and December through February 30%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Cathedral Gorge State Park has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 43°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: October averages 1.6" and June 0.3". The three wettest months together take 37% 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.
How Cathedral Gorge State Park's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 53 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 11.2" between them, or roughly 0.21 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.
Wet days a year
53
Wettest month by days
February
Driest month by days
June
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 Cathedral Gorge State Park
Cathedral Gorge State Park averages 12.1 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 8 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: 12.1 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 8 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 11% 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
October 4
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 15
50% probability date
Growing Season
142 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,463
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
757
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Places with a similar climate profile
NOAA 1991–2020 annual normals connect this location to non-geographic peers. Temperature peers use annual mean temperature; energy peers use both heating and cooling degree days.
Closest annual-temperature peers
What Cathedral Gorge State Park's climate means for you
Cathedral Gorge State Park runs 52°F a year - peaking in July, coldest in December.
- The frost-free window is short at about 142 days, opening only once the last spring freeze passes near May 15, which rules out long-season crops outdoors.
- Keeping warm is the dominant household load: 5,463 heating degree days against only 757 for cooling.
- See how Cathedral Gorge State Park lines up against the rest of Nevada and the national rankings. See rankings
Climate Guides
Data-derived climate profile
How Cathedral Gorge State Park's climate pattern fits together
heating led · dry · mid swing
Cathedral Gorge State Park's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,463 annual heating degree days against 757 for cooling. Its 43.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 142 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.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Cathedral Gorge State Park's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 43.0°F. The annual average is 52°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Cathedral Gorge State Park's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 11.2 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Annual snowfall totals 12.1 inches. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Cathedral Gorge State Park'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. They are descriptive ranges, not an official NOAA classification or a forecast for any specific year.
The year in four calendar signals
- Warmest normal
- July
- The month averages 75°F (24°C), a middling summer peak by national standards rather than an extreme one.
- Coldest normal
- December
- The monthly mean of 32°F (0°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
- Rainfall rhythm
- October to June
- October is typically wettest; June is driest.
- Mild-temperature window
- May through September
- Monthly means sit between 55°F and 75°F in this window. Freezing days are still reported from January through December.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the average temperature in Cathedral Gorge State Park, NV? ▼
The average annual temperature in Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada is 52°F. The warmest month averages 93°F (34°C) and the coldest averages 17°F (-8°C).
How much snow does Cathedral Gorge State Park get? ▼
Cathedral Gorge State Park averages 12.1 inches of snow a year, most of it in December, within 11.2 inches of total precipitation. Snowfall is depth on the ground; the precipitation total counts its liquid equivalent, so the two are not additive.
How many days above 90°F does Cathedral Gorge State Park get? ▼
Cathedral Gorge State Park averages about 68 days a year at or above 90°F, concentrated in July and the months either side of it. That is a count of days reaching the threshold, not a measure of how far above it they go.
What is the comfort score for Cathedral Gorge State Park? ▼
Cathedral Gorge State Park has a climate comfort score of 54/100 (Moderate), milder than 31% of station-mapped locations in the PlainClimate database.
When is the growing season in Cathedral Gorge State Park? ▼
Cathedral Gorge State Park has approximately 142 frost-free days per year, with the last spring freeze around May 15 and the first fall freeze around October 4.
How much energy does heating and cooling require in Cathedral Gorge State Park? ▼
Cathedral Gorge State Park has 5,463 heating degree days and 757 cooling degree days annually, a heating-dominated climate. See our <a href="/guides/reading-weather-data" class="underline hover:text-brand-600">guide to reading weather data</a> for what these figures mean.
Where does this Cathedral Gorge State Park climate data come from? ▼
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). Figures on this page come from Cathedral Gorge State Park's primary NOAA station (CATHEDRAL GORGE SP, USC00261590).
Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Cathedral Gorge State Park's primary station: CATHEDRAL GORGE SP (USC00261590). 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. The reproducible method is an exact normalized name-and-state match; unresolved is an upper bound on facilities because spelling variants can be missed.
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