Eads, Colorado climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Eads's normal year runs from 16°F January nights to 91°F July afternoons, with 15.7 inches of precipitation and 14 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 11.3°C, January lows of −9°C, July highs of 33°C, 399 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationEads
- Station IDUSC00052446
- Location38.48°N 102.78°W
- Elevation4,212 ft (1,284 m)
- Population637
On October 23, the normal high in Eads is 65°F and the normal low 34°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 12%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Eads.
- Jan 45° 16°
- Feb 48° 19°
- Mar 58° 27°
- Apr 66° 35°
- May 75° 46°
- Jun 87° 57°
- Jul 91° 62°
- Aug 89° 60°
- Sep 82° 51°
- Oct 69° 37°
- Nov 55° 25°
- Dec 45° 17°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
What is the weather like in Eads each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 91°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 16°F. The most precipitation falls in July (2.92 in), the least in January (0.26 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 45°F | 16°F | 30.3°F | 0.26 | 2.5 | 3 | <1 | 31 | 9 h 50 min |
| February | 48°F | 19°F | 33.2°F | 0.42 | 3.4 | 3 | <1 | 27 | 10 h 40 min |
| March | 58°F | 27°F | 42.6°F | 0.78 | 1.9 | 4 | <1 | 23 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 66°F | 35°F | 50.3°F | 1.76 | 0.6 | 6 | <1 | 10 | 13 h 10 min |
| May | 75°F | 46°F | 60.7°F | 2.13 | 0.2 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 14 h 10 min |
| June | 87°F | 57°F | 71.5°F | 2.02 | 0.0 | 6 | 13 | <1 | 14 h 50 min |
| July | 91°F | 62°F | 76.4°F | 2.92 | 0.0 | 8 | 20 | <1 | 14 h 40 min |
| August | 89°F | 60°F | 74.2°F | 2.53 | 0.0 | 7 | 16 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| September | 82°F | 51°F | 66.1°F | 0.86 | 0.0 | 4 | 8 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 69°F | 37°F | 52.6°F | 1.22 | 0.2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 55°F | 25°F | 40.0°F | 0.41 | 2.4 | 3 | <1 | 25 | 10 h 10 min |
| December | 45°F | 17°F | 30.8°F | 0.39 | 2.7 | 3 | <1 | 31 | 9 h 30 min |
| Year (annual) | 67°F | 38°F | 52.4°F | 15.70 | 13.9 | 57 | 60 | 156 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7°C | −9°C | −0.9°C | 7 mm | 6 cm |
| February | 9°C | −7°C | 0.7°C | 11 mm | 9 cm |
| March | 14°C | −3°C | 5.9°C | 20 mm | 5 cm |
| April | 19°C | 2°C | 10.2°C | 45 mm | 2 cm |
| May | 24°C | 8°C | 15.9°C | 54 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 30°C | 14°C | 21.9°C | 51 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 33°C | 16°C | 24.7°C | 74 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 31°C | 15°C | 23.4°C | 64 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 28°C | 10°C | 18.9°C | 22 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 20°C | 3°C | 11.4°C | 31 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 13°C | −4°C | 4.4°C | 10 mm | 6 cm |
| December | 7°C | −9°C | −0.7°C | 10 mm | 7 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00052446; annual normals. Wet days: 0.01 inch or more; 90°F days and freezing nights: NOAA's day counts. Daylight: sunrise to sunset on the 15th, computed from the latitude.
When is the best weather to visit Eads?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in April, May, September and October. Of those, September has the fewest days with rain (4).
That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00052446.
When is the last frost in Eads?
In Eads, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 30 in half of years and after May 12 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 13 in half of years and before October 1 in one year in ten.
Frost-free in half of yearsFrost in 1 to 9 years out of 10Frost most years
- Last spring frost, half of years after
- April 301 year in 10 after May 12; 9 in 10 after April 15
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- October 131 year in 10 before October 1; 9 in 10 before October 24
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 165 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 183 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 19 in half of springs and before October 21 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Eads in zone 6a in ZIP code 81036, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Eads's NOAA station is in zone 6a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches −7°F (27 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Colorado · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00052446; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; the station zone: ACIS daily lows, 1991-2020. A 10% date means one year in ten has a frost after it in spring or before it in autumn.
How hot and how cold does it get in Eads?
In a normal year in Eads, 60 days a year reach 90°F (7 of them 100°F or more), 156 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 57 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 60a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 7a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 156a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 21high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 57a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 3a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1907) is 110°F, on June 29, 1963; the lowest is −29°F, on January 28, 1948.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1941, with 23.29 in; the snowiest season is 1946–47, with 87.2 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00052446; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00052446. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Eads?
Over a year 84% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Eads, 5.0 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (90%) and February the cloudiest (76%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 79% | 2.7 |
| February | 76% | 3.5 |
| March | 80% | 4.9 |
| April | 80% | 6.0 |
| May | 82% | 6.9 |
| June | 88% | 7.6 |
| July | 90% | 7.5 |
| August | 89% | 6.6 |
| September | 87% | 5.5 |
| October | 83% | 4.1 |
| November | 83% | 3.0 |
| December | 78% | 2.3 |
Source: NASA POWER solar climatology, 2001-2020 (CERES SYN1deg). Satellite-based, for the 1-degree cell (about 100 km across) around the station, so it describes the area rather than the airport.
How much heating and cooling does Eads need?
A normal year in Eads brings 5,600 heating degree days, 4% more than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,044 cooling degree days, 15% more than the median (908). Seven months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 3,415 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,074 | 0 |
| February | 890 | 0 |
| March | 695 | 0 |
| April | 443 | 2 |
| May | 184 | 51 |
| June | 23 | 219 |
| July | 2 | 355 |
| August | 5 | 290 |
| September | 84 | 118 |
| October | 390 | 8 |
| November | 750 | 0 |
| December | 1,060 | 0 |
| Year (annual) | 5,600 | 1,044 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00052446. A degree day is one degree of a day's mean temperature below 65°F (heating) or above it (cooling); utilities use them to estimate energy use.
Has Eads been warmer than normal lately?
2024 averaged 55.3°F, 2.9°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 52.4°F. 4 of the 4 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 53.2°F | +0.8°F | 15.58 | 12.8 |
| 2022 | 52.5°F | +0.1°F | 12.08 | 24.5 |
| 2023 | 52.7°F | +0.3°F | 21.16 | 22.0 |
| 2024 | 55.3°F | +2.9°F | 14.66 | 16.6 |
Over 69 complete years from 1908 to 2024, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.5°F per century (+0.14°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00052446; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Eads's climate compare?
Eads is warmer than 109 of the other 124 places with their own NOAA record in Colorado, and wetter than 66. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 52.4°F is warmer than 51%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Eads is BSk: cold semi-arid steppe. What the classes mean.
Places with the most similar year elsewhere
Measured month by month on the normal high, low and precipitation, among places of 20,000 or more people in other states:
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for every station PlainClimate covers. Similarity: the root-mean-square difference of the 36 monthly figures, precipitation weighted so an inch counts like 6°F.
Which places near Eads share this climate record?
Haswell has no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of its own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.
- Haswell, CO69 people · 21 mi W
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
Questions about Eads's climate
What is the coldest month in Eads?
January, with a normal high of 45°F and a normal low of 16°F. The warmest is July (91°F by day, 62°F at night).
Does it snow in Eads?
Yes: 14 inches in a normal year, falling on 6 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in February (3.4 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Eads?
July, with 2.92 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is January with 0.26 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Eads in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Eads in zone 6a in ZIP code 81036, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Eads's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches −7°F (27 years, 1991-2020): zone 6a.
How late can frost come in Eads?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after April 30; in one year in ten it comes after May 12. Waiting until May 12 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Colorado climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Kit Carson, CO20 miles from this station, 50.9°F a year
- Sheridan Lake, CO26 miles from this station, 52.3°F a year
- Lamar, CO29 miles from this station, 54.0°F a year
- John Martin Dam, CO30 miles from this station, 54.8°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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