Elgin, NV Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Elgin's primary NOAA station, ELGIN.
The climate verdict for Elgin
Dryness leads the climate profile for Elgin, Nevada, with 11.6 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 60°F. It scores 83/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 81% of them.
- 60°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 83/100
- comfort score, above 81% of station-mapped location scores
- 11.6"
- annual precipitation
- 204 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Elgin: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00262557 · Elgin, NV 60°F mean · 11.6" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 60°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,146
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Portales
- PRCP-ARID 11.6"
- SWING-MID 40°F
- COMF-TOP 83/100
- LOAD-HEAT 3,434 HDD
- STN-1 USC00262557
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Portales, NM (+ 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 NV station list.
- Elgin (this station) 60°F
- Cold Independence, MS 60°F
- Hot Jerome, AZ 60°F
- Near Portales, NM 60°F
- Near Booneville, MS 60°F
Climate Living Index · Elgin
Elgin: 52/100 · grade D
Elgin publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Elgin, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 83/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 0.2 inches/year | 89/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 60.1°F · 7.4° from 67.5°F | 77/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 204 days/year | 67/100 · C |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 178 calendar days | 26/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 11.6 in · 23.4 from 35 in | 17/100 · F |
Elgin · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Elgin's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSk
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: cold semi-arid steppe (BSk). Class BSk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 81.5°F
- Coldest month
- 41.5°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 Elgin sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Elgin's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 25% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Elgin sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 91%
- Elgin's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 36th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Elgin compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Elgin's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
83 Top 19% score exceeds 81% 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 54°F (12°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 1.4" | 0.0" | 22.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 58°F (14°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 2.0" | 0.0" | 16.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 66°F (19°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 1.7" | 0.0" | 10.8 | 0.0 |
| April | 72°F (22°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 4.4 | 0.6 |
| May | 83°F (28°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 65°F (19°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 6.7 |
| June | 94°F (35°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 20.9 |
| July | 100°F (38°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 82°F (28°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 29.7 |
| August | 98°F (37°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 29.1 |
| September | 90°F (32°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 16.3 |
| October | 77°F (25°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 1.6 | 2.0 |
| November | 63°F (17°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 0.6" | 0.2" | 13.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 53°F (12°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 1.3" | 0.0" | 22.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Elgin works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 101°F by July 22 and hold at or above 90°F on 105 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 73 dates, bottoming at 29°F around December 24.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 3 through September 15, covering 105 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 4 to October 31.
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 9, then returns to freezing around November 29, covering 73 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 February 22, when 27% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 23 at 7%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 49 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 17 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 39°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Elgin.
Where Elgin Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 105 days a year the normal daily high itself reaches 90°F — a count fewer than one station in ten exceeds.
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 12 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Elgin earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
5.3 days with precipitation
7.8 days with precipitation
6.0 days with precipitation
4.6 days with precipitation
2.9 days with precipitation
1.8 days with precipitation
3.0 days with precipitation
3.2 days with precipitation
3.0 days with precipitation
3.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
2.9 days with precipitation
4.3 days with precipitation
Elgin's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 41% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 14%. That is the cool-season-dominant pattern of the West Coast and the higher inland West, where storm tracks swing south in winter and summer turns dry; the thermometer meanwhile shows a 40°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 2.0"
- Driest month
- June, 0.2"
- Wettest three months
- February, March, January (45% of the year)
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A cool-season label means the December-February share reaches 35%. Where snow falls, the monthly figures above report liquid-equivalent precipitation, so a wet winter month is not necessarily a rainy one.
How Elgin's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 48 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 11.6" between them, or roughly 0.24 inches on a typical wet day. That sits in the middle band: neither the many-light-days pattern of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes, nor the few-heavy-events pattern of the Gulf and the desert Southwest.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year and say nothing about the heaviest single storm on record.
Snow reaches Elgin, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 0.2 inches of snow a year here, most likely in November. That is a real but marginal amount: enough that snow is part of the local record, not enough to define the winter.
A figure in this range usually reflects a handful of events that melt quickly rather than a season of accumulation; about 0 days a year record any measurable snow at all.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. An average across thirty years can smooth away a single heavy winter, so a small annual figure does not mean a significant snowfall is impossible.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 11
50% probability date
Growing Season
204 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,434
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,663
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Elgin 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 (60°F here).
- Anadarko, OK 60°F · 0.0°F off
- Apex, NC 60°F · 0.0°F off
- Calistoga, CA 60°F · 0.0°F off
- Catawba, NC 60°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (11.6" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- La Verkin, UT 11.6" · 0.0" off
- Ontario, CA 11.6" · 0.0" off
- El Cajon, CA 11.6" · 0.0" off
- Fairbanks, AK 11.7" · 0.0" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Elgin's limited precipitation lands
heating led · dry · mid swing
Elgin's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 3,434 annual heating degree days against 1,663 for cooling. Its 40.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Elgin's frost-free season lasts about 204 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Elgin's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 40.0°F. The annual average is 60°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Elgin's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 11.6 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
Elgin wettest normal
February
February concentrates the scarce annual total (11.6 inches).
Elgin driest normal
June
June 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 Elgin's primary station: ELGIN (USC00262557). 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 Elgin; 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 Elgin 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.