Clayton Muni Air Park, NM 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 Clayton Muni Air Park's primary NOAA station, CLAYTON MUNI AIR PK.
The climate verdict for Clayton Muni Air Park
Dryness leads the climate profile for Clayton Muni Air Park, New Mexico, with 16.1 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 54°F. At 49/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 18% of scores.
- 54°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 16.1"
- annual precipitation · 22" snow
- 173 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Clayton Muni Air Park: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00023051 · Clayton Muni Air Park, NM 54°F mean · 16.1" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 54°F
- RANK-MID #3,979
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Boston
- PRCP-DRY 16.1"
- SWING-MID 40°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 4,848 HDD
- STN-1 USW00023051
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Boston, VA ( -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 NM station list.
- Clayton (this station) 54°F
- Cold Boston, VA 54°F
- Hot Sutcliffe, NV 54°F
- Near St Johns Indust…, AZ 54°F
- Near Arlington, OR 54°F
Climate Living Index · Clayton Muni Air Park
Clayton Muni Air Park: 53/100 · grade D
Clayton Muni Air Park publishes all six Living Index dimensions from NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals · NOAA hourly normals.
PlainClimate-derived for Clayton Muni Air Park, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Summer moisture balance | 52.3°F mean dew point | 97/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 54.3°F · 13.2° from 67.5°F | 57/100 · C |
| Snowfall burden | 22.3 inches/year | 46/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 173 days/year | 44/100 · D |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 157 calendar days | 41/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 16.1 in · 18.9 from 35 in | 33/100 · F |
Clayton Muni Air Park · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Clayton Muni Air Park'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
- 75.4°F
- Coldest month
- 35.3°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 Clayton Muni Air Park sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Clayton Muni Air Park's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 58th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 80%
- Clayton Muni Air Park's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 36th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Clayton Muni Air Park compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Clayton Muni Air Park's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
49 18th percentile score exceeds 18% 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
Clayton Muni Air Park's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 93 complete annual observations from 1897 to 2025, CLAYTON MUNI AIR PK warmed at a fitted rate of 0.12°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Clayton Muni Air Park primary station fitted change +0.12 °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 | 50°F (10°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 0.3" | 3.7" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 52°F (11°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 0.3" | 2.7" | 23.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 60°F (16°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 0.9" | 3.4" | 17.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 67°F (20°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.1" | 1.3" | 7.1 | 0.2 |
| May | 76°F (25°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 1.9" | 0.5" | 0.6 | 2.5 |
| June | 86°F (30°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 2.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 12.7 |
| July | 90°F (32°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 2.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 18.5 |
| August | 87°F (30°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 3.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 12.5 |
| September | 80°F (27°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 1.8" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 4.6 |
| October | 69°F (21°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 1.1" | 1.2" | 4.7 | 0.3 |
| November | 58°F (14°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 0.5" | 2.7" | 18.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 49°F (9°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 0.4" | 6.8" | 27.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Clayton Muni Air Park works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 91°F by July 11 and hold at or above 90°F on 20 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 137 dates, bottoming at 21°F around December 27.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 3 through July 22, covering 20 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 28 to October 13.
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 24, then returns to freezing around November 9, covering 137 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 28, when 34% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 18 at 10%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 68 wet dates a year.
The widest day
March 31 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 31°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Clayton Muni Air Park.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 3.7"
3.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.7"
3.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.4"
4.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.3"
5.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.5"
6.7 days with precipitation
7.4 days with precipitation
9.9 days with precipitation
9.3 days with precipitation
6.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.2"
4.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.7"
3.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.8"
3.7 days with precipitation
Clayton Muni Air Park runs a summer-peaked wet season
49% of Clayton Muni Air Park'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 August at 3.1", on a 40.1°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: August, July, June, taking 49% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: February at 0.3".
- Winter share: 7% 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.
How Clayton Muni Air Park's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 68 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 16.1" between them, or roughly 0.24 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 Clayton Muni Air Park
Clayton Muni Air Park averages 22.3 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 15 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: 22.3 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 15 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 14% 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 17
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 27
50% probability date
Growing Season
173 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,848
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
968
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Humidity & Wind
Monthly averages from hourly observations
| Month | Humidity | Wind (mph) | Clear Sky % | Overcast % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 47% | 11.7 | N/A | N/A |
| February | 42% | 12.6 | 70% | 19% |
| March | 41% | 13.6 | 69% | 17% |
| April | 42% | 13.5 | N/A | N/A |
| May | 47% | 12.6 | 68% | 8% |
| June | 45% | 12.2 | 72% | 6% |
| July | 54% | 10.6 | 58% | 11% |
| August | 52% | 11.0 | 70% | 8% |
| September | 48% | 11.7 | 75% | 14% |
| October | 46% | 11.7 | 80% | 13% |
| November | 46% | 12.0 | 73% | 18% |
| December | 51% | 11.9 | 79% | 15% |
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NM closest to Clayton Muni Air Park 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 (54°F here).
- Battle Mountain, NV 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Bedford, IN 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Beloit, KS 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Caesars Head, SC 54°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (16.1" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Ridgway, CO 16.1" · 0.0" off
- Edgemont, SD 16.1" · 0.0" off
- Crosby, ND 16.1" · 0.0" off
- Milton Freewater, OR 16.1" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Clayton Muni Air Park
heating led · dry · mid swing
Clayton Muni Air Park's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 4,848 annual heating degree days against 968 for cooling. Its 40.1°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Clayton Muni Air Park's frost-free season lasts about 173 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. Clayton Muni Air Park 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. Clayton Muni Air Park typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Clayton Muni Air Park snow peak
December
Clayton Muni Air Park averages 22.3 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 Clayton Muni Air Park's primary station: CLAYTON MUNI AIR PK (USW00023051). 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 Clayton Muni Air Park; 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 Clayton Muni Air Park 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.