Cherry Valley Dam, CA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Cherry Valley Dam's primary NOAA station, CHERRY VALLEY DAM.
The climate verdict for Cherry Valley Dam
Water is the standout signal in Cherry Valley Dam, California: 49.0 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 55°F. Its climate comfort score of 58/100 (moderate) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 37% of station-mapped location scores.
- 55°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 58/100
- comfort score, above 37% of station-mapped location scores
- 49.0"
- annual precipitation · 108" snow
- 186 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Cherry Valley Dam: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00041697 · Cherry Valley Dam, CA 55°F mean · 49.0" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 55°F
- RANK-MID #4,048
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Crossville
- PRCP-MID 49.0"
- SWING-MID 34°F
- COMF-MID 58/100
- LOAD-HEAT 4,564 HDD
- STN-1 USC00041697
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Crossville, TN ( -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 CA station list.
- Cherry Valley D… (this station) 55°F
- Hot Coalmont, TN 55°F
- Near Crossville, TN 55°F
- Cold Bent Creek, NC 54°F
- Near Marshall, NC 54°F
Climate Living Index · Cherry Valley Dam
Cherry Valley Dam: 53/100 · grade D
Cherry Valley Dam publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Cherry Valley Dam, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 58/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 112 calendar days | 69/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 54.6°F · 12.9° from 67.5°F | 58/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 186 days/year | 54/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 49.0 in · 14.0 from 35 in | 51/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 107.6 inches/year | 0/100 · F |
Cherry Valley Dam · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Cherry Valley Dam is a temperate Köppen climate: Csa
Coldest-month mean 39.9°F and warmest-month mean 73.7°F place this station in temperate, dry-summer, hot summer climates (Csa). Class Csa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, dry-summer, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Csa
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 73.7°F
- Coldest month
- 39.9°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 Cherry Valley Dam sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Cherry Valley Dam's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 59th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 21% wettest
- Cherry Valley Dam's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 85%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Cherry Valley Dam is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Cherry Valley Dam compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Cherry Valley Dam's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
58 37th percentile score exceeds 37% 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%). 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
Cherry Valley Dam's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 48 complete annual observations from 1956 to 2025, CHERRY VALLEY DAM warmed at a fitted rate of 0.19°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Cherry Valley Dam primary station fitted change +0.19 °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 | 49°F (10°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 9.7" | 21.0" | 17.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 51°F (11°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 8.3" | 26.4" | 16.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 55°F (13°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 7.4" | 21.1" | 14.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 61°F (16°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 3.9" | 10.5" | 9.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 70°F (21°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 2.6" | 1.1" | 2.1 | 0.4 |
| June | 81°F (27°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.8" | 0.1" | 0.2 | 3.9 |
| July | 89°F (32°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 14.4 |
| August | 89°F (32°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 14.2 |
| September | 82°F (28°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 4.6 |
| October | 70°F (21°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 2.7" | 0.5" | 1.4 | 0.2 |
| November | 57°F (14°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 4.6" | 5.6" | 9.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 49°F (9°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 8.3" | 21.3" | 17.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Cherry Valley Dam works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 91°F by July 27 and hold at or above 90°F on 21 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 91 dates, bottoming at 31°F around February 6.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 18 through August 7, covering 21 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 16 to October 16.
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 March 3, then returns to freezing around December 4, covering 91 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 21, when 38% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 6 at 3%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 73 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 1 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 32°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Cherry Valley Dam.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 21.0"
10.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 26.4"
10.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 21.1"
10.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.5"
7.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.1"
6.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
2.4 days with precipitation
1.1 days with precipitation
1.0 days with precipitation
2.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.5"
4.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.6"
7.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 21.3"
9.2 days with precipitation
Cherry Valley Dam's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 53% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 2%. That is the cool-season-dominant pattern of the West Coast and the higher inland West, where storm tracks swing south in winter and summer turns dry; the thermometer meanwhile shows a 33.8°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- January, 9.7"
- Driest month
- August, 0.1"
- Wettest three months
- January, December, February (53% of the year)
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A cool-season label means the December-February share reaches 35%. Where snow falls, the monthly figures above report liquid-equivalent precipitation, so a wet winter month is not necessarily a rainy one.
When it rains in Cherry Valley Dam, it arrives in quantity
49.0" of precipitation falls across only about 73 wet days here, averaging 0.68 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 73 a year, 20% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.68 inches
- Most wet days
- March, about 11
- Fewest wet days
- August, about 1
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 Cherry Valley Dam
Cherry Valley Dam averages 107.6 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 24 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: 107.6 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 24 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 22% 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 4
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 2
50% probability date
Growing Season
186 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,564
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
812
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Cherry Valley Dam 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 (55°F here).
- Brownstown, IL 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Flemingsburg, KY 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Glenns Ferry, ID 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Hammonton, NJ 55°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (49.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Elkin, NC 49.0" · 0.0" off
- Cannelton, IN 49.0" · 0.0" off
- Greenville, MS 49.0" · 0.0" off
- Lenox Dale, MA 49.1" · 0.1" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Cherry Valley Dam
heating led · wet · mid swing
Cherry Valley Dam's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 4,564 annual heating degree days against 812 for cooling. Its 33.8°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Cherry Valley Dam's frost-free season lasts about 186 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. Cherry Valley Dam coldest normal
December
The coldest month still averages 40°F (4°C), above freezing, so this calendar has no hard winter.
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2. Cherry Valley Dam typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Cherry Valley Dam snow peak
February
Cherry Valley Dam averages 107.6 inches of snow a year, with February 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 Cherry Valley Dam's primary station: CHERRY VALLEY DAM (USC00041697). 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 Cherry Valley Dam; 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 Cherry Valley Dam 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.