Douglas, AZ Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Douglas's primary NOAA station, DOUGLAS.
The climate verdict for Douglas
Dryness leads the climate profile for Douglas, Arizona, with 14.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 65°F. It scores 80/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 76% of them.
- 65°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 80/100
- comfort score, above 76% of station-mapped location scores
- 14.0"
- yearly precipitation total
- 240 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Douglas: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00022659 · Douglas, AZ 65°F mean · 14.0" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 65°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,969
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Amargosa Farms-…
- PRCP-DRY 14.0"
- SWING-MID 33°F
- COMF-TOP 80/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00022659
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Amargosa Farms-garey, NV (+ 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 AZ station list.
- Douglas (this station) 65°F
- Hot Burbank Valley…, CA 65°F
- Near Amargosa Farms-…, NV 65°F
- Near Archer City, TX 65°F
- Near Ardmore, OK 65°F
Climate Living Index · Douglas
Douglas: 56/100 · grade C
Douglas publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Douglas, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 80/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 64.5°F · 3.0° from 67.5°F | 91/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 240 days/year | 85/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 174 calendar days | 29/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 14.0 in · 21.0 from 35 in | 24/100 · F |
Douglas · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Douglas's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSh
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: hot semi-arid steppe (BSh). Class BSh is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically hot semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSh
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 80.8°F
- Coldest month
- 47.7°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 Douglas sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Douglas's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 13% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Douglas sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 85%
- Douglas's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 86%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Douglas is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Douglas compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Douglas's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
80 Top 24% score exceeds 76% 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.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Douglas's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 74 complete annual observations from 1904 to 2015, DOUGLAS 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.
- Douglas 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 | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 65°F (18°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 0.9" | 19.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 69°F (20°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 0.7" | 11.3 | 0.1 |
| March | 73°F (23°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 56°F (14°C) | 0.6" | 4.6 | 0.1 |
| April | 81°F (27°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.2" | 0.5 | 1.7 |
| May | 89°F (32°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 0.4" | 0.0 | 13.3 |
| June | 97°F (36°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 0.5" | 0.0 | 28.2 |
| July | 95°F (35°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 3.5" | 0.0 | 26.9 |
| August | 93°F (34°C) | 65°F (19°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 3.2" | 0.0 | 23.6 |
| September | 90°F (32°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 1.7" | 0.0 | 17.6 |
| October | 83°F (29°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.8" | 0.3 | 4.2 |
| November | 74°F (23°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 0.6" | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 65°F (18°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 0.9" | 17.2 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Douglas works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 99°F by June 22 and hold at or above 90°F on 120 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 54 dates, bottoming at 30°F around December 23.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from May 21 through September 17, covering 120 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs February 27 to November 26.
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 January 26, then returns to freezing around December 4, covering 54 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
November 7 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 37°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Douglas.
Where Douglas Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 120 days a year the normal daily high itself reaches 90°F — a count fewer than one station in ten exceeds.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 37°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Douglas earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Douglas runs a summer-peaked wet season
51% of Douglas's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is July at 3.5", on a 33.1°F seasonal spread. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: July, August, September, taking 60% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: April at 0.2".
- Winter share: 18% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 13
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 18
50% probability date
Growing Season
240 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,136
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,989
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AZ closest to Douglas 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 (65°F here).
- Archer City, TX 65°F · 0.0°F off
- Ardmore, OK 65°F · 0.0°F off
- Buttonwillow, CA 65°F · 0.0°F off
- Conway, SC 65°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (14.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Andrews, TX 14.0" · 0.0" off
- Davenport, WA 14.0" · 0.0" off
- College, AK 13.9" · 0.0" off
- Wright, WY 13.9" · 0.0" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Douglas's limited precipitation lands
mixed demand · dry · mid swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 14.0 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.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Douglas's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 33.1°F. The annual average is 65°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Douglas's normal, at 2,136 and 1,989 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.
Douglas has a long frost-free window of roughly 240 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
Douglas wettest normal
July
July concentrates the scarce annual total (14.0 inches).
Douglas driest normal
April
April is typically driest; arid stations are defined by when water is absent, not by a four-season grid.
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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 Douglas's primary station: DOUGLAS (USC00022659). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as an incorporated place (GEOID 0420050). Match rule for Douglas: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Douglas 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.