Dark Canyon Road, NM Climate: Temperature by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Dark Canyon Road's primary NOAA station, DARK CANYON ROAD.
The climate verdict for Dark Canyon Road
Dark Canyon Road, New Mexico has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 62°F. July is the warmest month at 80°F and January the coldest at 43°F.
- 62°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 209 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Dark Canyon Road: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00292365 · Dark Canyon Road, NM 62°F mean
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-MILD 62°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,420
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ada
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 37°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00292365
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Ada, OK (+ 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 NM station list.
- Dark Canyon Road (this station) 62°F
- Hot Chico Univ Farm, CA 62°F
- Near Ada, OK 62°F
- Near Ardmore, TN 62°F
- Near Belhaven, NC 62°F
Climate Living Index · Dark Canyon Road
Dark Canyon Road: 61/100 · grade C
Dark Canyon Road publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Dark Canyon Road, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 61.6°F · 5.9° from 67.5°F | 82/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 209 days/year | 71/100 · B |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 165 calendar days | 36/100 · F |
Dark Canyon Road · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · balanced station
Where Dark Canyon Road sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Dark Canyon Road are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Top 21% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Dark Canyon Road sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 78%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Dark Canyon Road is compact 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 | 58°F (14°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 43°F (6°C) | N/A | 21.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 63°F (17°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 48°F (9°C) | N/A | 16.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 71°F (21°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 54°F (12°C) | N/A | 7.7 | 0.6 |
| April | 79°F (26°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 62°F (17°C) | N/A | 2.8 | 3.8 |
| May | 86°F (30°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 70°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.3 | 12.2 |
| June | 94°F (35°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 79°F (26°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 24.2 |
| July | 93°F (34°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 80°F (26°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 21.4 |
| August | 91°F (33°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 77°F (25°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 23.2 |
| September | 85°F (30°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 71°F (22°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 9.2 |
| October | 78°F (25°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 62°F (16°C) | N/A | 1.2 | 2.2 |
| November | 67°F (20°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 51°F (11°C) | N/A | 12.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 58°F (15°C) | 29°F (-1°C) | 44°F (7°C) | N/A | 20.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Dark Canyon Road works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 96°F by June 20 and hold at or above 90°F on 87 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 78 dates, bottoming at 27°F around January 5.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from May 29 through August 23, covering 87 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 16 to November 8.
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 February 12, then returns to freezing around November 27, covering 78 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.
The widest day
April 9 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 36°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Dark Canyon Road.
Where Dark Canyon Road Stands Nationally
Heat is a defining feature of the normals calendar — the normal daily high reaches 90°F on roughly 87 days a year, more than four out of five ranked stations record.
Daily temperature swings run wider than most of the country, peaking near 36°F between the normal high and low.
Dark Canyon Road earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 6
50% probability date
Growing Season
209 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,954
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,746
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NM closest to Dark Canyon Road 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).
- Ada, OK 62°F · 0.0°F off
- Ardmore, TN 62°F · 0.0°F off
- Belhaven, NC 62°F · 0.0°F off
- Haleyville, AL 62°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Dark Canyon Road's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · mid swing
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Dark Canyon Road's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 36.8°F. The annual average is 62°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Dark Canyon Road's normal, at 2,954 and 1,746 degree days respectively. Neither total exceeds the other by more than two to one, so the record is better read as a mixed-demand calendar than as heating-led or cooling-led.
A roughly 209-day frost-free season sits inside this mixed heating-and-cooling profile. Start and end dates matter because both sides of the thermostat register during a normal year.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Dark Canyon Road's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Dark Canyon Road'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 Dark Canyon Road, the bands are descriptive ranges rather than an official NOAA classification or a forecast.
Questions about Dark Canyon Road's climate
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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 Dark Canyon Road's primary station: DARK CANYON ROAD (USC00292365). 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 Dark Canyon Road; 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 Dark Canyon Road 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.