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Concord Buchanan Fld, CA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month

Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score

30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Concord Buchanan Fld's primary NOAA station, CONCORD BUCHANAN FLD.

The climate verdict for Concord Buchanan Fld

Dryness leads the climate profile for Concord Buchanan Fld, California, with 16.1 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 62°F. It scores 88/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 89% of them.

62°F
yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
88/100
comfort score, above 89% of station-mapped location scores
16.1"
precipitation, annual total
339 days
growing season, frost-free days

Concord Buchanan Fld: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.

Normals record plate

Sheet USW00023254 · Concord Buchanan Fld, CA 62°F mean · 16.1" precip

TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-NARROW · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL

Nearest mean-temperature peer: Anderson, SC (+ 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 CA station list.

Climate Living Index · Concord Buchanan Fld

Concord Buchanan Fld: 81/100 · grade B

Concord Buchanan Fld publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.

B
81/100Climate Living Index

PlainClimate-derived for Concord Buchanan Fld, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 88/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.

Concord Buchanan Fld Living Index dimension scores
DimensionStation valueScore
Frost-free season 339 days/year 100/100 · A
Normal heat + freeze calendar 0 calendar days 100/100 · A
Annual temperature balance 62.0°F · 5.5° from 67.5°F 83/100 · B
Precipitation balance 16.1 in · 18.9 from 35 in 32/100 · F

Concord Buchanan Fld · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.

Concord Buchanan Fld is a temperate Köppen climate: Csa

Coldest-month mean 49.4°F and warmest-month mean 73.6°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
73.6°F
Coldest month
49.4°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 · balanced station

Where Concord Buchanan Fld sits across the climate record

Three NOAA fields for Concord Buchanan Fld's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.

Annual temperature
Top 20% warmest
Among 6,861 stations, Concord Buchanan Fld sits in the warmer third of annual means.
Annual precipitation
Drier than 80%
Concord Buchanan Fld's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
Seasonal temperature swing
Narrower than 95%
Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Concord Buchanan Fld is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.

How Concord Buchanan Fld compares across U.S. station-mapped locations

Concord Buchanan Fld's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations

PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals

88 Top 11% score exceeds 89% 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%). Below this entry. 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Below this entry. 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Below this entry. 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). This entry sits in this band. 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry. This location 0 100 every station-mapped location, bucketed by value
  1. 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
  2. 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
  3. 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
  4. 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
  5. 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry.
  6. 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Below this entry.
  7. 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Below this entry.
  8. 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Below this entry.
  9. 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). This entry sits in this band.
  10. 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.

Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more station-mapped locations. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Monthly Temperatures

Average daily high and low temperatures by month

Month Avg High Avg Low Mean
January 58°F (14°C) 41°F (5°C) 49°F (10°C)
February 62°F (17°C) 44°F (7°C) 53°F (12°C)
March 67°F (19°C) 47°F (8°C) 57°F (14°C)
April 71°F (22°C) 49°F (10°C) 60°F (16°C)
May 78°F (25°C) 53°F (12°C) 65°F (19°C)
June 84°F (29°C) 57°F (14°C) 71°F (21°C)
July 88°F (31°C) 59°F (15°C) 73°F (23°C)
August 88°F (31°C) 59°F (15°C) 74°F (23°C)
September 85°F (30°C) 58°F (14°C) 72°F (22°C)
October 78°F (26°C) 53°F (11°C) 65°F (19°C)
November 66°F (19°C) 45°F (7°C) 56°F (13°C)
December 58°F (15°C) 41°F (5°C) 50°F (10°C)

The year, day by day

The calendar barely moves in Concord Buchanan Fld: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 40°F near December 20 and 88°F near July 15.

Normal daily high and low temperature for Concord Buchanan Fld, January through December Peaks 88°F around July 15. Bottoms 40°F around December 20. 35 45 55 65 75 85 95 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Normal daily high and low across the calendar year. NOAA 1991–2020 daily normals, CONCORD BUCHANAN FLD.

No freezing date

Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 40°F around December 20.

Where the wet dates fall

The likeliest wet date is February 25, when 33% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 20 at 0%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 57 wet dates a year.

The widest day

July 15 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 30°F between the normal high and the normal low.

Look up any date

Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Concord Buchanan Fld.

Monthly Precipitation

Average monthly rainfall

January 3.2"

9.0 days with precipitation

February 3.2"

9.2 days with precipitation

March 2.3"

9.3 days with precipitation

April 1.1"

5.1 days with precipitation

May 0.5"

2.8 days with precipitation

June 0.2"

0.8 days with precipitation

July 0.0"

0.0 days with precipitation

August 0.0"

0.2 days with precipitation

September 0.1"

0.7 days with precipitation

October 0.7"

3.0 days with precipitation

November 1.6"

6.5 days with precipitation

December 3.2"

9.9 days with precipitation

Concord Buchanan Fld's wet season runs through the cold months

December, January and February carry 60% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 1%. 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 an unusually narrow 24.2°F seasonal spread.

Wettest month
January, 3.2"
Driest month
July, 0.0"
Wettest three months
January, February, December (60% 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.

How Concord Buchanan Fld's precipitation splits across the calendar

About 57 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 16.1" between them, or roughly 0.28 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.

Wet days a year
57
Wettest month by days
December
Driest month by days
July

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.

Frost Dates & Growing Season

First Fall Freeze

December 14

50% probability date

Last Spring Freeze

January 9

50% probability date

Growing Season

339 days

Heating & Cooling Degree Days

Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling

Heating Degree Days

2,154

Higher = more heating needed

Cooling Degree Days

1,078

Higher = more cooling needed

Warmest Month

August

Coldest Month

January

Nationwide similar cities

Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Concord Buchanan Fld 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 (62°F here).

Closest by annual precipitation

Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (16.1" here), excluding temperature-peer places.

California climate overview →

Data-derived climate profile

How Concord Buchanan Fld's climate pattern fits together

mixed demand · dry · low swing

Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 16.1 inches annually, within PlainClimate's dry band. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The monthly distribution matters because the total alone does not reveal the timing.

The calendar stays thermally compact and dry. August and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar, only 24.2°F apart, while the annual precipitation total remains below PlainClimate's dry threshold. The annual average is 62°F. The monthly rows show whether that limited precipitation is spread through the year or concentrated in a shorter interval.

Concord Buchanan Fld combines a compact 24.2°F annual temperature range with meaningful demand on both sides of the thermostat: 2,154 heating and 1,078 cooling degree days. The balance matters more here than either annual total in isolation.

Concord Buchanan Fld has a long frost-free window of roughly 339 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.

These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Concord Buchanan Fld's primary station, where heating and cooling demand are close enough that neither season sets the character on its own. On a balanced station like Concord Buchanan Fld, the bands are descriptive ranges rather than an official NOAA classification or a forecast.

Questions about Concord Buchanan Fld's climate

How much rain does Concord Buchanan Fld get?
Concord Buchanan Fld receives 16.1 inches of precipitation. Based on NOAA 30-year climate normals (1991-2020).
How many days above 90°F does Concord Buchanan Fld get?
Concord Buchanan Fld averages about 51 days a year at or above 90°F, concentrated in August and the months either side of it. That is a count of days reaching the threshold, not a measure of how far above it they go.
How much energy does heating and cooling require in Concord Buchanan Fld?
Concord Buchanan Fld has 2,154 heating degree days and 1,078 cooling degree days annually, a fairly balanced heating/cooling split. Degree-day definitions: reading weather data.

Data Sources

Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Concord Buchanan Fld's primary station: CONCORD BUCHANAN FLD (USW00023254). 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 Concord Buchanan Fld; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainClimate

On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Concord Buchanan Fld 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.