Climate Comfort Score
24/100
Below Average
NOAA 1991–2020 normals Station-mapped location · no exact Census place match 38°F annual avg Public-domain federal data
Crater Lake Nps Headquarters, OR Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
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- 38°F
- Avg annual temp
- 24/100
- Comfort score
- 66.8"
- Annual precip
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Crater Lake Nps Headquarters's primary NOAA station, CRATER LAKE NPS HQ.
The climate verdict for Crater Lake Nps Headquarters
Water is the standout signal in Crater Lake Nps Headquarters, Oregon: 66.8 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 38°F. At 24/100 (below average) the composite comfort score falls in the least temperate third of station-mapped US locations, milder than only 0% of them.
- 38°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 24/100
- comfort score, milder than 0% of station-mapped locations
- 66.8"
- annual precipitation · 463" snow
Based on NOAA U.S. Climate Normals (1991–2020) - 30-year averages describing the typical year, not a forecast.
Avg Temperature
38°F (3°C)
Avg High
48°F
Avg Low
28°F
Annual Precip
66.8"
Annual Snow
463.1"
Comfort Score
24/100
Below Average
Avg Annual Temperature
38°F
30-year mean (NOAA NCEI)
Annual Precipitation
66.8"
Plus 463.1" of snow
Comfort score vs national 100-point ceiling (Crater Lake Nps Headquarters) 24.0%
National median (64)
PlainClimate composite, temperature mildness, humidity, precipitation, extreme-weather frequency. Below Average for the Crater Lake Nps Headquarters area.
How Crater Lake Nps Headquarters compares with its closest stations
Against the 6 closest stations in the record, Crater Lake Nps Headquarters averages 38°F a year, cooler than Chiloquin, OR (45°F) and Prospect, OR (53°F). On comfort score it places 6 of 6 in that local group.
Corpus-relative placement
Where Crater Lake Nps Headquarters sits across the climate record
These comparisons place this primary-station normal among station-mapped locations with the same NOAA 1991–2020 fields.
- Annual temperature
- Warmer than 3%
- of 6,861 measured location normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Wetter than 97%
- of 6,352 measured location normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Larger than 9%
- of 6,861 complete location-year normals.
How Crater Lake Nps Headquarters compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Crater Lake Nps Headquarters's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
24 0th percentile milder than 0% of 6,189 station-mapped locations
- 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
Crater Lake Nps Headquarters's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 64 complete annual observations from 1922 to 2023, CRATER LAKE NPS HQ 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.
- Crater Lake Nps Headquarters 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 | 33°F (1°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 10.1" | 86.5" | 30.6 | 0.0 |
| February | 34°F (1°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 7.5" | 68.9" | 27.7 | 0.0 |
| March | 36°F (2°C) | 20°F (-6°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 7.8" | 71.9" | 30.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 40°F (5°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 6.2" | 48.7" | 27.7 | 0.0 |
| May | 49°F (9°C) | 29°F (-1°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 3.6" | 14.5" | 20.4 | 0.0 |
| June | 57°F (14°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 2.3" | 3.7" | 12.8 | 0.0 |
| July | 69°F (21°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 1.8 | 0.0 |
| August | 69°F (21°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 2.5 | 0.0 |
| September | 63°F (17°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 1.9" | 1.8" | 7.1 | 0.0 |
| October | 51°F (10°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 4.8" | 17.2" | 19.7 | 0.0 |
| November | 38°F (3°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 9.6" | 59.3" | 26.8 | 0.0 |
| December | 33°F (0°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 11.3" | 90.6" | 30.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 72°F around July 27, short of 90°F on every date, while 241 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 19°F near February 18.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into June 6, then returns to freezing around October 10, covering 241 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 December 7, when 60% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 28 at 11%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 146 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 24 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 28°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Crater Lake Nps Headquarters.
Where Crater Lake Nps Headquarters Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 241 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 67 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Standing computed against the distribution of 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations in the PlainClimate database; only nationally notable standings are shown.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
January 10.1"
Snow: 86.5"
17.9 days with precipitation
February 7.5"
Snow: 68.9"
16.7 days with precipitation
March 7.8"
Snow: 71.9"
18.0 days with precipitation
April 6.2"
Snow: 48.7"
16.5 days with precipitation
May 3.6"
Snow: 14.5"
11.5 days with precipitation
June 2.3"
Snow: 3.7"
7.4 days with precipitation
July 0.8"
3.5 days with precipitation
August 0.8"
3.7 days with precipitation
September 1.9"
Snow: 1.8"
5.3 days with precipitation
October 4.8"
Snow: 17.2"
10.6 days with precipitation
November 9.6"
Snow: 59.3"
16.7 days with precipitation
December 11.3"
Snow: 90.6"
18.4 days with precipitation
Crater Lake Nps Headquarters's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 43% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 6%. 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 29.5°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 11.3"
- Driest month
- July, 0.8"
- Wettest three months
- December, January, November (46% 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 Crater Lake Nps Headquarters, it arrives in quantity
66.8" of precipitation falls across only about 146 wet days here, averaging 0.46 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 146 a year, 40% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.46 inches
- Most wet days
- December, about 18
- Fewest wet days
- July, about 4
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 Crater Lake Nps Headquarters
Crater Lake Nps Headquarters averages 463.1 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 101 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: 463.1 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 101 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 69% 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
9,872
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
7
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Places with a similar climate profile
NOAA 1991–2020 annual normals connect this location to non-geographic peers. Temperature peers use annual mean temperature; energy peers use both heating and cooling degree days.
Closest annual-temperature peers
What Crater Lake Nps Headquarters's climate means for you
Crater Lake Nps Headquarters runs 38°F a year - peaking in August, coldest in December.
- Keeping warm is the dominant household load: 9,872 heating degree days against only 7 for cooling.
- See how Crater Lake Nps Headquarters lines up against the rest of Oregon and the national rankings. See rankings
Climate Guides
Data-derived climate profile
How Crater Lake Nps Headquarters's climate pattern fits together
heating led · wet · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Crater Lake Nps Headquarters, at 9,872 degree days versus 7 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 29.5°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Crater Lake Nps Headquarters. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
Crater Lake Nps Headquarters's 29.5°F seasonal spread is compact even though precipitation is abundant. August and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar. The annual average is 38°F. Temperature is relatively steady; the monthly rows show how rain and snow observations vary across the calendar.
Alongside its heating load, Crater Lake Nps Headquarters carries 66.8 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Annual snowfall totals 463.1 inches. That distinction matters because a wet annual total can arrive as rain, snow, or a mixture at different times.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Crater Lake Nps Headquarters's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. They are descriptive ranges, not an official NOAA classification or a forecast for any specific year.
The year in four calendar signals
- Warmest normal
- August
- Even at its warmest the station only averages 55°F (13°C), so no month here is hot by national standards.
- Coldest normal
- December
- The monthly mean of 26°F (-3°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
- Rainfall rhythm
- December to July
- December is typically wettest; July is driest.
- Mild-temperature window
- July through August
- Monthly means sit between 55°F and 75°F in this window. Freezing days are still reported from January through December.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the average temperature in Crater Lake Nps Headquarters, OR? ▼
The average annual temperature in Crater Lake Nps Headquarters, Oregon is 38°F. The warmest month averages 69°F (21°C) and the coldest averages 19°F (-7°C).
How much snow does Crater Lake Nps Headquarters get? ▼
Crater Lake Nps Headquarters averages 463.1 inches of snow a year, most of it in December, within 66.8 inches of total precipitation. Snowfall is depth on the ground; the precipitation total counts its liquid equivalent, so the two are not additive.
How cold does Crater Lake Nps Headquarters get in winter? ▼
Crater Lake Nps Headquarters records about 238 days a year with a low at or below freezing, with December the coldest month on the normals, and an annual average daily low of 28°F.
What is the comfort score for Crater Lake Nps Headquarters? ▼
Crater Lake Nps Headquarters has a climate comfort score of 24/100 (Below Average), milder than 0% of station-mapped locations in the PlainClimate database.
How much energy does heating and cooling require in Crater Lake Nps Headquarters? ▼
Crater Lake Nps Headquarters has 9,872 heating degree days and 7 cooling degree days annually, a heating-dominated climate. See our <a href="/guides/reading-weather-data" class="underline hover:text-brand-600">guide to reading weather data</a> for what these figures mean.
Where does this Crater Lake Nps Headquarters climate data come from? ▼
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). Figures on this page come from Crater Lake Nps Headquarters's primary NOAA station (CRATER LAKE NPS HQ, USC00351946).
Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Crater Lake Nps Headquarters's primary station: CRATER LAKE NPS HQ (USC00351946). 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. The reproducible method is an exact normalized name-and-state match; unresolved is an upper bound on facilities because spelling variants can be missed.
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