Coal Creek Canyon, CO 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 Coal Creek Canyon's primary NOAA station, COAL CREEK CANYON.
The climate verdict for Coal Creek Canyon
Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 40°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.
- 40°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 25.8"
- annual precipitation · 195" snow
- 103 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Coal Creek Canyon: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00051681 · Coal Creek Canyon, CO 40°F mean · 25.8" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 40°F
- RANK-COOL #343
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sand Point
- PRCP-MID 25.8"
- SWING-MID 36°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 9,135 HDD
- STN-1 USC00051681
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Sand Point, AK (+ 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.
- Coal Creek Cany… (this station) 40°F
- Hot Homer, AK 40°F
- Near Sand Point, AK 40°F
- Near Wally Noerenber…, AK 40°F
- Near Yakutat, AK 40°F
Climate Living Index · Coal Creek Canyon
Coal Creek Canyon: 15/100 · grade F
Coal Creek Canyon publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Coal Creek Canyon, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 25.8 in · 9.2 from 35 in | 68/100 · C |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 220 calendar days | 5/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 39.9°F · 27.6° from 67.5°F | 4/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 103 days/year | 0/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 194.7 inches/year | 0/100 · F |
Coal Creek Canyon · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Coal Creek Canyon is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 24.0°F and warmest-month mean 60.3°F place this station in continental, no dry season, warm summer climates (Dfb). Class Dfb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 60.3°F
- Coldest month
- 24.0°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 Coal Creek Canyon sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Coal Creek Canyon's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 95%
- Among 6,861 stations, Coal Creek Canyon sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 35th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 79%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Coal Creek Canyon is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Coal Creek Canyon compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Coal Creek Canyon'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
Coal Creek Canyon's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 32 complete annual observations from 1985 to 2018, COAL CREEK CANYON warmed at a fitted rate of 0.29°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Coal Creek Canyon primary station fitted change +0.29 °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 | 33°F (1°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 1.0" | 17.4" | 30.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 34°F (1°C) | 15°F (-10°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 1.3" | 23.2" | 27.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 41°F (5°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 2.7" | 35.6" | 28.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 46°F (8°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 3.8" | 42.0" | 26.2 | 0.0 |
| May | 55°F (13°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 3.2" | 16.6" | 15.3 | 0.0 |
| June | 67°F (19°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 2.2" | 0.9" | 1.8 | 0.0 |
| July | 73°F (23°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 2.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| August | 71°F (22°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 2.8" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| September | 64°F (18°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.9" | 2.7" | 5.2 | 0.0 |
| October | 52°F (11°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 1.7" | 16.1" | 18.8 | 0.0 |
| November | 41°F (5°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 1.2" | 18.4" | 26.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 33°F (1°C) | 15°F (-10°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 1.1" | 21.8" | 30.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 74°F around July 19, short of 90°F on every date, while 220 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 14°F near February 8.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 14, then returns to freezing around October 8, covering 220 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 1, when 51% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is October 16 at 26%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 136 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 27 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 26°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Coal Creek Canyon.
Where Coal Creek Canyon Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 220 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Coal Creek Canyon 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: 17.4"
9.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 23.2"
10.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 35.6"
11.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 42.0"
13.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 16.6"
13.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.9"
12.2 days with precipitation
14.8 days with precipitation
15.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.7"
9.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 16.1"
8.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 18.4"
8.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 21.8"
9.0 days with precipitation
Coal Creek Canyon spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 31% of the annual total and December through February 13%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Coal Creek Canyon has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 36.3°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: April averages 3.8" and January 1.0". The three wettest months together take 38% 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.
Rain reaches Coal Creek Canyon in small, frequent amounts
Coal Creek Canyon records about 136 days with measurable precipitation a year and 25.8" in total, which works out to roughly 0.19 inches on an average wet day. Precipitation on 37% of all days, arriving that lightly, is the damp many-grey-days pattern rather than the storm-driven one.
Places in this band read as wetter than their annual totals suggest, because what people notice is the number of overcast days, not the depth in the gauge.
- Most wet days: August, about 15 of them.
- Fewest: October, about 8.
- Average depth per wet day: 0.19 inches.
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 Coal Creek Canyon
Coal Creek Canyon averages 194.7 inches of snowfall a year, with April the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 80 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: 194.7 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 80 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 75% 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
September 16
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 5
50% probability date
Growing Season
103 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
9,135
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
19
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CO closest to Coal Creek Canyon 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 (40°F here).
- Sand Point, AK 40°F · 0.0°F off
- Towner, ND 40°F · 0.0°F off
- Ada, MN 40°F · 0.1°F off
- Carrington, ND 40°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (25.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Burwell, NE 25.9" · 0.0" off
- O'neill, NE 25.9" · 0.0" off
- Hollis, OK 25.8" · 0.0" off
- Mitchell, SD 25.8" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Coal Creek Canyon
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Coal Creek Canyon's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 9,135 annual heating degree days against 19 for cooling. Its 36.3°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 103 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. Coal Creek Canyon coldest normal
December
Averaging 24°F (-4°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Coal Creek Canyon typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Coal Creek Canyon snow peak
April
Coal Creek Canyon averages 194.7 inches of snow a year, with April 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 Coal Creek Canyon's primary station: COAL CREEK CANYON (USC00051681). 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 Coal Creek Canyon; 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 Coal Creek Canyon 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.