Creede, CO 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 Creede's primary NOAA station, CREEDE.
The climate verdict for Creede
Dryness leads the climate profile for Creede, Colorado, with 15.7 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 41°F. July is the warmest month at 61°F and January the coldest at 21°F.
- 41°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 15.7"
- yearly precipitation total
Creede: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00051939 · Creede, CO 41°F mean · 15.7" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 41°F
- RANK-COOL #480
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Port San Juan
- PRCP-DRY 15.7"
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 8,764 HDD
- STN-1 USC00051939
- BOOK-FULL 5/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Port San Juan, 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.
- Creede (this station) 41°F
- Hot Snettisham Pwr…, AK 41°F
- Near Port San Juan, AK 41°F
- Near Glacier Bay, AK 41°F
- Near Kitoi Bay, AK 41°F
Climate Living Index · Creede
Creede: 10/100 · grade F
Creede publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Creede, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 15.7 in · 19.4 from 35 in | 31/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 40.9°F · 26.6° from 67.5°F | 7/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 249 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
Creede · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
Creede is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 21.2°F and warmest-month mean 60.6°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
- 60.6°F
- Coldest month
- 21.2°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 Creede sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Creede's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 93%
- Among 6,861 stations, Creede sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 81%
- Creede's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 33rd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 37°F (3°C) | 6°F (-15°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 1.0" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 42°F (6°C) | 9°F (-13°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 0.8" | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 50°F (10°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 0.9" | 30.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 56°F (13°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 1.0" | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| May | 65°F (18°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 1.7" | 20.7 | 0.0 |
| June | 75°F (24°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 0.8" | 7.1 | 0.0 |
| July | 78°F (26°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 1.9" | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| August | 76°F (24°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 2.6" | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| September | 70°F (21°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.9" | 13.7 | 0.0 |
| October | 61°F (16°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 1.4" | 27.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 49°F (9°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 0.9" | 29.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 38°F (3°C) | 6°F (-15°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 0.6" | 30.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 78°F around July 9, short of 90°F on every date, while 249 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 5°F near December 23.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 27, then returns to freezing around September 22, covering 249 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 11, when 58% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is December 18 at 16%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 106 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 11 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 40°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Creede.
Where Creede Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 249 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 40°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Creede earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
5.6 days with precipitation
6.2 days with precipitation
6.0 days with precipitation
8.2 days with precipitation
6.1 days with precipitation
7.7 days with precipitation
14.7 days with precipitation
18.6 days with precipitation
12.7 days with precipitation
8.6 days with precipitation
6.0 days with precipitation
4.9 days with precipitation
Creede spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 35% of the annual total and December through February 15%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Creede has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 39.4°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: August averages 2.6" and December 0.6". The three wettest months together take 42% 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.
Creede is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 105 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 29% of the calendar, and they carry 15.6" between them. At roughly 0.15 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 19 wet days; the driest is December at about 5.
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.
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
8,764
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
4
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CO closest to Creede 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 (41°F here).
- Danforth, ME 41°F · 0.0°F off
- Fessenden, ND 41°F · 0.0°F off
- Munising, MI 41°F · 0.0°F off
- Ottertail, MN 41°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (15.7" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Virginia City, MT 15.7" · 0.0" off
- Watford City, ND 15.7" · 0.0" off
- Downey, ID 15.6" · 0.0" off
- Fox, AK 15.6" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Creede's climate pattern fits together
heating led · dry · mid swing
Creede's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,764 annual heating degree days against 4 for cooling. Its 39.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Creede. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Creede's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 39.4°F. The annual average is 41°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Creede's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 15.7 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Creede'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. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Creede, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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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 Creede's primary station: CREEDE (USC00051939). 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 Creede; 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 Creede 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.