Cutler Dam, UT Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Cutler Dam's primary NOAA station, CUTLER DAM.
The climate verdict for Cutler Dam
Dryness leads the climate profile for Cutler Dam, Utah, with 16.9 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 49°F. At 49/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 18% of scores.
- 49°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 16.9"
- annual precipitation · 39" snow
- 162 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Cutler Dam: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00421918 · Cutler Dam, UT 49°F mean · 16.9" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 49°F
- RANK-COOL #2,401
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Nashua Cwsu
- PRCP-DRY 16.9"
- SWING-WIDE 50°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,604 HDD
- STN-1 USC00421918
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Nashua Cwsu, NH ( -0.1 °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 UT station list.
- Cutler Dam (this station) 49°F
- Cold Nashua Cwsu, NH 49°F
- Hot Oshkosh, NE 49°F
- Near Guernsey, WY 49°F
- Near Lodgepole NO, NE 49°F
Climate Living Index · Cutler Dam
Cutler Dam: 34/100 · grade F
Cutler Dam publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Cutler Dam, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 48.8°F · 18.7° from 67.5°F | 35/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 162 days/year | 35/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 166 calendar days | 35/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 16.9 in · 18.1 from 35 in | 35/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 38.5 inches/year | 29/100 · F |
Cutler Dam · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Cutler Dam is a continental Köppen climate: Dsa
Coldest-month mean 24.2°F and warmest-month mean 74.5°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, hot summer climates (Dsa). Class Dsa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 74.5°F
- Coldest month
- 24.2°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 Cutler Dam sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Cutler Dam's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 35th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 78%
- Cutler Dam's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 82%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Cutler Dam is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Cutler Dam compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Cutler Dam's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
49 18th percentile score exceeds 18% 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
Cutler Dam's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 33 complete annual observations from 1984 to 2025, CUTLER DAM warmed at a fitted rate of 0.47°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Cutler Dam primary station fitted change +0.47 °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 | 32°F (0°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 1.9" | 13.6" | 28.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 37°F (3°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 1.5" | 8.8" | 24.1 | 0.0 |
| March | 50°F (10°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 1.5" | 2.0" | 16.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 59°F (15°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 47°F (9°C) | 1.8" | 0.3" | 6.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 69°F (20°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 2.2" | 0.0" | 1.0 | 0.5 |
| June | 79°F (26°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 4.7 |
| July | 89°F (32°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 19.9 |
| August | 88°F (31°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 16.3 |
| September | 77°F (25°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 1.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.2 |
| October | 62°F (17°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 1.6" | 0.6" | 5.2 | 0.0 |
| November | 47°F (8°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 1.2" | 3.2" | 19.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 33°F (1°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 1.6" | 10.0" | 28.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Cutler Dam works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 91°F by July 26 and hold at or above 90°F on 24 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 142 dates, bottoming at 16°F around January 1.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 16 through August 8, covering 24 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 20 to September 30.
This counts calendar dates whose 1991–2020 normal high reaches 90°F. It is a smaller number than the 90°F+ day counts in the monthly table above, which measure how often the threshold was actually crossed in a typical year. A date can average 88°F and still exceed 90°F in half of all years.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 23, then returns to freezing around November 3, covering 142 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 22, when 34% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 6 at 11%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 91 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 18 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 Cutler Dam.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 13.6"
10.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.8"
9.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.0"
7.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
9.5 days with precipitation
10.6 days with precipitation
4.9 days with precipitation
3.6 days with precipitation
3.8 days with precipitation
5.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
7.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.2"
8.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.0"
10.6 days with precipitation
Cutler Dam spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 14% of the annual total and December through February 30%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Cutler Dam has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 50.3°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 2.2" and July 0.5". The three wettest months together take 35% 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.
Cutler Dam is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 91 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 25% of the calendar, and they carry 16.9" between them. At roughly 0.19 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 May at about 11 wet days; the driest is July 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 Cutler Dam
Cutler Dam averages 38.5 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 21 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: 38.5 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 21 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 23% 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
October 12
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 3
50% probability date
Growing Season
162 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,604
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
742
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside UT closest to Cutler Dam 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 (49°F here).
- Arthur, NE 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Buffalo, NY 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Canandaigua, NY 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Cedaredge, CO 49°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (16.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Crook, CO 16.9" · 0.0" off
- Big Timber, MT 16.9" · 0.0" off
- Buffalo, SD 16.9" · 0.0" off
- Corona, NM 16.9" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Cutler Dam
heating led · dry · mid swing
Cutler Dam's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,604 annual heating degree days against 742 for cooling. Its 50.3°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Cutler Dam's frost-free season lasts about 162 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Cutler Dam coldest normal
January
Averaging 24°F (-4°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Cutler Dam typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Cutler Dam snow peak
January
Cutler Dam averages 38.5 inches of snow a year, with January 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 Cutler Dam's primary station: CUTLER DAM (USC00421918). 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 Cutler Dam; 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 Cutler Dam 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.