Cheesman, CO Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Cheesman's primary NOAA station, CHEESMAN.
The climate verdict for Cheesman
Dryness leads the climate profile for Cheesman, Colorado, with 15.8 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 47°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.
- 47°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 15.8"
- annual precipitation · 59" snow
- 137 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Cheesman: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00051528 · Cheesman, CO 47°F mean · 15.8" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 47°F
- RANK-COOL #1,921
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Harrington
- PRCP-DRY 15.8"
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,766 HDD
- STN-1 USC00051528
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Harrington, WA (+ 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.
- Cheesman (this station) 47°F
- Cold Meyersdale, PA 47°F
- Hot Porthill, ID 47°F
- Near Harrington, WA 47°F
- Near Hidden Valley, PA 47°F
Climate Living Index · Cheesman
Cheesman: 22/100 · grade F
Cheesman publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Cheesman, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 15.8 in · 19.2 from 35 in | 31/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 47.2°F · 20.3° from 67.5°F | 28/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 137 days/year | 17/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 197 calendar days | 16/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 59.2 inches/year | 16/100 · F |
Cheesman · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Cheesman'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
- 68.4°F
- Coldest month
- 29.2°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 Cheesman sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Cheesman's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 72%
- Among 6,861 stations, Cheesman sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 81%
- Cheesman's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 32nd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Cheesman compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Cheesman'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
Cheesman's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 90 complete annual observations from 1903 to 2025, CHEESMAN warmed at a fitted rate of 0.09°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Cheesman primary station fitted change +0.09 °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 | 45°F (7°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 0.5" | 7.0" | 30.4 | 0.0 |
| February | 46°F (8°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 0.6" | 7.4" | 27.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 53°F (11°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 1.2" | 11.2" | 28.8 | 0.0 |
| April | 58°F (14°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.5" | 10.3" | 24.0 | 0.0 |
| May | 67°F (20°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 1.8" | 1.9" | 11.6 | 0.0 |
| June | 79°F (26°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 1.7" | 0.0" | 2.3 | 1.9 |
| July | 84°F (29°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 2.6" | 0.0" | 0.6 | 6.4 |
| August | 82°F (28°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 2.6" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 2.2 |
| September | 76°F (24°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 1.2" | 0.5" | 6.0 | 0.3 |
| October | 64°F (18°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 1.0" | 5.7" | 20.2 | 0.0 |
| November | 53°F (12°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 0.6" | 7.0" | 27.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 44°F (7°C) | 15°F (-10°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 0.5" | 8.2" | 30.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 85°F around July 15, short of 90°F on every date, while 197 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 13°F near January 1.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 28, then returns to freezing around October 15, covering 197 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 45% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 8 at 13%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 88 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 20 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 33°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Cheesman.
Where Cheesman Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 197 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 16 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Cheesman 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: 7.0"
4.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.4"
4.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.2"
6.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.3"
7.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.9"
9.3 days with precipitation
8.8 days with precipitation
12.4 days with precipitation
13.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.5"
7.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.7"
5.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.0"
4.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.2"
4.7 days with precipitation
Cheesman runs a summer-peaked wet season
43% of Cheesman's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is July at 2.6", on a 39.2°F seasonal spread. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: July, August, May, taking 44% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: January at 0.5".
- Winter share: 10% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
Cheesman is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 88 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 24% of the calendar, and they carry 15.8" between them. At roughly 0.18 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 13 wet days; the driest is November at about 4.
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 Cheesman
Cheesman averages 59.2 inches of snowfall a year, with March the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 25 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: 59.2 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 25 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 38% 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 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 17
50% probability date
Growing Season
137 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,766
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
303
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CO closest to Cheesman 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).
- Amboy, MN 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Burton, MI 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Concord, NH 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Fort Atkinson, WI 47°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (15.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Camp Crook, SD 15.8" · 0.0" off
- Denton, MT 15.8" · 0.0" off
- Harrison, NE 15.8" · 0.0" off
- Mosquero, NM 15.8" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Cheesman
heating led · dry · mid swing
Cheesman's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,766 annual heating degree days against 303 for cooling. Its 39.2°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 137 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. Cheesman coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 29°F (-2°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Cheesman typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Cheesman snow peak
March
Cheesman averages 59.2 inches of snow a year, with March 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 Cheesman's primary station: CHEESMAN (USC00051528). 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 Cheesman; 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 Cheesman 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.