Colville Village, AK 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 Colville Village's primary NOAA station, COLVILLE VILLAGE.
The climate verdict for Colville Village
Winter sets the terms in Colville Village, Alaska. A pronounced 60.9°F seasonal swing and heating demand above twice the cooling total frame an annual average of 13°F. At 24/100 (below average) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 0% of scores.
- 13°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 24/100
- comfort score, above 0% of station-mapped location scores
- 5.6"
- annual precipitation · 58" snow
Colville Village: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00502126 · Colville Village, AK 13°F mean · 5.6" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 13°F
- RANK-COOL #1
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Utqiagvik (form…
- PRCP-ARID 5.6"
- SWING-WIDE 61°F
- COMF-LOW 24/100
- LOAD-HEAT 18,862 HDD
- STN-1 USC00502126
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), AK ( -0.5 °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 AK station list.
- Hot Toolik Lake, AK 19°F
- Near Wainwright, AK 15°F
- Near Alpine, AK 14°F
- Colville Village (this station) 13°F
- Cold Utqiagvik (form…, AK 13°F
Colville Village sits in Alaska, the #1 coldest U.S. state at 33.5°F statewide annual average - see all 50 coldest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Colville Village
Colville Village: 3/100 · grade F
Colville Village publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Colville Village, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 24/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 57.6 inches/year | 17/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 5.6 in · 29.4 from 35 in | 2/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 13.2°F · 54.3° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 273 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
Colville Village · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Colville Village falls in the polar Köppen band: ET
The warmest month stays below 10°C: tundra class (ET). Class ET is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: polar, specifically tundra.
- Köppen code
- ET
- Group
- Polar
- Warmest month
- 45.9°F
- Coldest month
- -15.0°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 Colville Village sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Colville Village's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 100%
- Among 6,861 stations, Colville Village sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 99%
- Colville Village's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 98%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Colville Village is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Colville Village compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Colville Village's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
24 0th percentile score exceeds 0% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Above this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Above this entry.
- 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -8°F (-22°C) | -21°F (-30°C) | -15°F (-26°C) | 0.2" | 6.0" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| February | -8°F (-22°C) | -22°F (-30°C) | -15°F (-26°C) | 0.3" | 7.1" | 28.0 | 0.0 |
| March | -6°F (-21°C) | -21°F (-29°C) | -14°F (-25°C) | 0.1" | 3.4" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 10°F (-12°C) | -6°F (-21°C) | 2°F (-16°C) | 0.1" | 4.4" | 30.0 | 0.0 |
| May | 28°F (-2°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 0.2" | 4.5" | 30.3 | 0.0 |
| June | 44°F (6°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 38°F (4°C) | 0.4" | 0.9" | 15.2 | 0.0 |
| July | 52°F (11°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 2.3 | 0.0 |
| August | 48°F (9°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.3" | 0.3" | 4.2 | 0.0 |
| September | 39°F (4°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 0.7" | 2.4" | 16.9 | 0.0 |
| October | 25°F (-4°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 20°F (-6°C) | 0.5" | 11.2" | 30.8 | 0.0 |
| November | 9°F (-13°C) | -3°F (-20°C) | 3°F (-16°C) | 0.3" | 10.1" | 30.0 | 0.0 |
| December | -3°F (-19°C) | -15°F (-26°C) | -9°F (-23°C) | 0.3" | 7.3" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 53°F around July 14, short of 90°F on every date, while 273 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest -22°F near March 2.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into June 11, then returns to freezing around September 13, covering 273 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 16, when 48% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is March 23 at 13%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 99 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 11 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 17°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Colville Village.
Where Colville Village Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 273 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 6 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Colville Village 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: 6.0"
6.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.1"
6.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.4"
4.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.4"
4.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.5"
5.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.9"
6.0 days with precipitation
9.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
15.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.4"
12.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.2"
11.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.1"
9.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.3"
7.7 days with precipitation
Colville Village runs a summer-peaked wet season
50% of Colville Village'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 1.3", on a wide 60.9°F gap between its warmest and coldest month. 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, September, taking 55% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: March at 0.1".
- Winter share: 13% 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.
Colville Village is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 99 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 27% of the calendar, and they carry 5.6" between them. At roughly 0.06 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 16 wet days; the driest is March 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 Colville Village
Colville Village averages 57.6 inches of snowfall a year, with October the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 74 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: 57.6 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 74 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 103% 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
N/A
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
18,862
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
0
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
February
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AK closest to Colville Village 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 (13°F here).
- Cooke City, MT 34°F · 21.0°F off
- Crested Butte, CO 34°F · 21.0°F off
- Silver Gate, MT 34°F · 21.1°F off
- Stanley, ID 34°F · 21.2°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (5.6" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Mina, NV 5.6" · 0.0" off
- Victorville, CA 5.6" · 0.0" off
- Deaver, WY 5.5" · 0.1" off
- Bouse, AZ 5.7" · 0.1" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Colville Village
heating led · dry · high swing
Winter and seasonal range jointly define this record. Colville Village logs 18,862 heating degree days, more than twice its 0 cooling total, while the typical coldest-to-warmest-month gap reaches 60.9°F. The annual mean therefore compresses two materially different seasons.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Colville Village. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
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1. Colville Village coldest normal
February
Averaging -15°F (-26°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Colville Village typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Colville Village snow peak
October
Colville Village averages 57.6 inches of snow a year, with October 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 Colville Village's primary station: COLVILLE VILLAGE (USC00502126). 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 Colville Village; 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 Colville Village 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.