Cedar City, UT Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Cedar City's primary NOAA station, CEDAR CITY - 2 stations mapped to the area.
The climate verdict for Cedar City
Dryness leads the climate profile for Cedar City, Utah, with 13.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 51°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.
- 51°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 13.0"
- annual precipitation · 60" snow
- 162 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Cedar City: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00421259 · Cedar City, UT 51°F mean · 13.0" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-MULTI · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 51°F
- RANK-MID #3,156
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Wilkes-barre
- PRCP-DRY 13.0"
- SWING-MID 43°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,742 HDD
- STN-MULTI USC00421259
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Wilkes-barre, PA ( -0.1 °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 UT station list.
- Cedar City (this station) 51°F
- Cold Wilkes-barre, PA 51°F
- Near Fillmore, UT 51°F
- Near Owyhee Dam, OR 51°F
- Near Denver-stapleton, CO 51°F
Climate Living Index · Cedar City
Cedar City: 38/100 · grade F
Cedar City publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Cedar City, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 146 calendar days | 49/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 51.4°F · 16.1° from 67.5°F | 46/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 162 days/year | 35/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 13.0 in · 22.0 from 35 in | 21/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 59.6 inches/year | 16/100 · F |
Cedar City · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Cedar City's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSk
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: cold semi-arid steppe (BSk). Class BSk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 74.6°F
- Coldest month
- 31.2°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 Cedar City sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Cedar City's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 46th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 87%
- Cedar City's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 50th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Cedar City compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Cedar City'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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 42°F (6°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 0.8" | 9.5" | 28.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 45°F (7°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 1.1" | 10.6" | 23.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 54°F (12°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 1.4" | 12.3" | 20.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 61°F (16°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 1.2" | 5.6" | 11.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 70°F (21°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 1.0" | 1.4" | 3.1 | 0.3 |
| June | 82°F (28°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 5.0 |
| July | 88°F (31°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 1.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 13.3 |
| August | 86°F (30°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 1.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 7.7 |
| September | 77°F (25°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 0.6 | 0.8 |
| October | 65°F (19°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.3" | 0.9" | 6.6 | 0.0 |
| November | 52°F (11°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 1.1" | 6.1" | 18.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 41°F (5°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 1.1" | 13.2" | 26.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 88°F around July 18, short of 90°F on every date, while 146 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 20°F near December 19.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 31, then returns to freezing around November 7, covering 146 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 July 30, when 23% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 16 at 9%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 64 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 11 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 28°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Cedar City.
Where Cedar City Stands Nationally
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 13 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Cedar City 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: 9.5"
5.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.6"
5.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 12.3"
6.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.6"
5.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.4"
5.5 days with precipitation
2.0 days with precipitation
6.2 days with precipitation
5.9 days with precipitation
4.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.9"
5.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.1"
4.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 13.2"
6.5 days with precipitation
Cedar City spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 24% of the annual total and December through February 23%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Cedar City has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 43.4°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: March averages 1.4" and June 0.5". The three wettest months together take 31% 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 Cedar City's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 63 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 13.0" 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.
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 Cedar City
Cedar City averages 59.6 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 26 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: 59.6 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 26 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 46% 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 13
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 4
50% probability date
Growing Season
162 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,742
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
804
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside UT closest to Cedar City 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 (51°F here).
- Aberdeen, WA 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Astoria, OR 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Beatrice, NE 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Brockton, MA 51°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (13.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Sierra Vista, AZ 13.0" · 0.0" off
- Susanville, CA 13.0" · 0.0" off
- Cheraw, CO 13.0" · 0.0" off
- White Sulphur Springs, MT 13.0" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Cedar City
heating led · dry · mid swing
Cedar City's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,742 annual heating degree days against 804 for cooling. Its 43.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Cedar City's frost-free season lasts about 162 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Cedar City coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 31°F (0°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Cedar City typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Cedar City snow peak
December
Cedar City averages 59.6 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 Cedar City's primary station: CEDAR CITY (USC00421259). 2 NOAA stations are mapped to the Cedar City area; the primary station's record is used for consistency. 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 4911320). Match rule for Cedar City: 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 Cedar City 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.