Cedar Lake, WA 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 Cedar Lake's primary NOAA station, CEDAR LAKE.
The climate verdict for Cedar Lake
Water is the standout signal in Cedar Lake, Washington: 99.8 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 47°F. At 43/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 10% of scores.
- 47°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 43/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 99.8"
- annual precipitation · 42" snow
- 192 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Cedar Lake: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00451233 · Cedar Lake, WA 47°F mean · 99.8" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 47°F
- RANK-COOL #1,784
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Portola
- PRCP-WET 99.8"
- SWING-NARROW 26°F
- COMF-LOW 43/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,723 HDD
- STN-1 USC00451233
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Portola, 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 WA station list.
- Cedar Lake (this station) 47°F
- Hot Mt Charleston F…, NV 47°F
- Near Portola, CA 47°F
- Near Flagstaff Pulli…, AZ 47°F
- Near Mund's Park, AZ 47°F
Climate Living Index · Cedar Lake
Cedar Lake: 41/100 · grade D
Cedar Lake 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 Lake, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 43/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 90 calendar days | 79/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 192 days/year | 59/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 46.7°F · 20.8° from 67.5°F | 26/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 42.0 inches/year | 26/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 99.8 in · 64.8 from 35 in | 0/100 · F |
Cedar Lake · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Cedar Lake is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfb
Coldest-month mean 34.9°F and warmest-month mean 61.2°F place this station in temperate, no dry season, warm summer climates (Cfb). Class Cfb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, no dry season, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Cfb
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 61.2°F
- Coldest month
- 34.9°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 · heating-led station
Where Cedar Lake sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Cedar Lake's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 74%
- Among 6,861 stations, Cedar Lake sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 1% wettest
- Cedar Lake's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 94%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Cedar Lake is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Cedar Lake compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Cedar Lake's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
43 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
Cedar Lake's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 72 complete annual observations from 1912 to 2020, CEDAR LAKE changed little at a fitted rate of 0.00°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Cedar Lake primary station fitted change +0.00 °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 | 40°F (4°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 13.0" | 8.0" | 17.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 42°F (6°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 9.2" | 9.7" | 15.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 46°F (8°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 10.6" | 7.7" | 15.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 51°F (11°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 9.2" | 2.7" | 7.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 59°F (15°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 6.6" | 0.2" | 0.8 | 0.0 |
| June | 63°F (17°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 5.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| July | 70°F (21°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 2.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| August | 71°F (22°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 2.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| September | 64°F (18°C) | 47°F (9°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 4.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| October | 54°F (12°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 9.7" | 0.0" | 1.5 | 0.0 |
| November | 44°F (7°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 14.6" | 3.7" | 9.5 | 0.0 |
| December | 39°F (4°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 12.1" | 10.0" | 18.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 72°F around July 30, short of 90°F on every date, while 90 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 31°F near December 21.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 4, then returns to freezing around December 6, covering 90 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 November 23, when 69% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 1 at 23%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 194 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 26 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 20°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Cedar Lake.
Where Cedar Lake Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 100 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Among the steadiest day-night climates ranked: even the widest normal daily swing holds to roughly 20°F.
Cedar Lake 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
Snow: 8.0"
19.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 9.7"
16.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.7"
19.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.7"
18.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
16.8 days with precipitation
15.2 days with precipitation
8.4 days with precipitation
7.6 days with precipitation
11.7 days with precipitation
17.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.7"
20.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.0"
20.2 days with precipitation
Cedar Lake spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 10% of the annual total and December through February 34%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Cedar Lake has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry an unusually narrow 26.3°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: November averages 14.6" and July 2.1". The three wettest months together take 40% 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.
When it rains in Cedar Lake, it arrives in quantity
99.8" of precipitation falls across only about 193 wet days here, averaging 0.52 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 193 a year, 53% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.52 inches
- Most wet days
- November, about 21
- Fewest wet days
- August, about 8
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Winter brings real snow to Cedar Lake
Cedar Lake averages 42.0 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 21 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: 42.0 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 21 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 4% 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
November 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 23
50% probability date
Growing Season
192 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,723
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
59
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WA closest to Cedar Lake 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 (47°F here).
- Allison, IA 47°F · 0.0°F off
- American Falls, ID 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Cherokee, IA 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Forsyth, MT 47°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (99.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Craig, AK 99.9" · 0.1" off
- Elfin Cove, AK 104.0" · 4.2" off
- Metlakatla, AK 105.2" · 5.4" off
- Hyder, AK 92.5" · 7.3" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Cedar Lake
heating led · wet · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Cedar Lake, at 6,723 degree days versus 59 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 26.3°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
Cedar Lake's frost-free season lasts about 192 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 Lake coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 35°F (2°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Cedar Lake typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Cedar Lake snow peak
December
Cedar Lake averages 42.0 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 Lake's primary station: CEDAR LAKE (USC00451233). 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 Cedar Lake; 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 Cedar Lake 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.