Elko Nws Office, 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 Elko Nws Office's primary NOAA station, ELKO NWS OFFICE.
The climate verdict for Elko Nws Office
Dryness leads the climate profile for Elko Nws Office, Nevada, with 10.6 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 48°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.
- 48°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 10.6"
- annual precipitation · 39" snow
- 120 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Elko Nws Office: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00262570 · Elko Nws Office, NV 48°F mean · 10.6" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 48°F
- RANK-COOL #1,990
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Flint
- PRCP-ARID 10.6"
- SWING-WIDE 47°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,911 HDD
- STN-1 USC00262570
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Flint, MI (+ 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.
- Elko Nws Office (this station) 48°F
- Hot Richmond, UT 48°F
- Near Flint, MI 48°F
- Near Goodrich, MI 48°F
- Cold Massabesic Lake, NH 47°F
Climate Living Index · Elko Nws Office
Elko Nws Office: 15/100 · grade F
Elko Nws Office publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Elko Nws Office, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 47.5°F · 20.0° from 67.5°F | 29/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 38.8 inches/year | 29/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 10.6 in · 24.4 from 35 in | 14/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 120 days/year | 7/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 233 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
Elko Nws Office · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Elko Nws Office'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
- 73.2°F
- Coldest month
- 26.2°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 Elko Nws Office sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Elko Nws Office's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 71%
- Among 6,861 stations, Elko Nws Office sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 93%
- Elko Nws Office's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 68th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Elko Nws Office compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Elko Nws Office'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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 36°F (2°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 1.3" | 8.5" | 30.4 | 0.0 |
| February | 42°F (5°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 0.9" | 6.8" | 26.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 52°F (11°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 1.0" | 5.6" | 27.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 58°F (14°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 1.1" | 3.2" | 18.8 | 0.0 |
| May | 69°F (20°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 1.3" | 0.3" | 7.0 | 0.6 |
| June | 81°F (27°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 0.9 | 6.9 |
| July | 92°F (33°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 23.3 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 71°F (21°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 18.0 |
| September | 79°F (26°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 3.4 | 2.9 |
| October | 64°F (18°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 0.8" | 0.4" | 19.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 48°F (9°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 0.9" | 3.4" | 26.8 | 0.0 |
| December | 37°F (3°C) | 15°F (-9°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 1.2" | 10.6" | 30.1 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Elko Nws Office works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 93°F by July 24 and hold at or above 90°F on 40 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 193 dates, bottoming at 14°F around December 20.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 7 through August 15, covering 40 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 19 to October 4.
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 April 20, then returns to freezing around October 11, covering 193 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 January 1, when 32% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 1 at 11%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 79 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 11 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 38°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Elko Nws Office.
Where Elko Nws Office Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 11 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 38°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Elko Nws Office 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
Snow: 8.5"
9.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.8"
8.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.6"
8.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.2"
9.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
8.4 days with precipitation
3.7 days with precipitation
3.6 days with precipitation
3.8 days with precipitation
4.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
5.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.4"
6.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.6"
9.4 days with precipitation
Elko Nws Office spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 15% of the annual total and December through February 32%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Elko Nws Office has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 47°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 1.3" and August 0.3". The three wettest months together take 36% 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.
Elko Nws Office is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 79 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 22% of the calendar, and they carry 10.6" between them. At roughly 0.13 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 December at about 9 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 Elko Nws Office
Elko Nws Office averages 38.8 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 34 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: 38.8 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 34 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 37% 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
September 23
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 26
50% probability date
Growing Season
120 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,911
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
552
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Elko Nws Office 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 (48°F here).
- Anselmo, NE 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Ardmore, SD 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Butte, NE 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Denison, IA 48°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (10.6" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Escalante, UT 10.6" · 0.0" off
- Townsend, MT 10.6" · 0.0" off
- Glenns Ferry, ID 10.6" · 0.0" off
- Gunnison, CO 10.6" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Elko Nws Office
heating led · dry · mid swing
Elko Nws Office's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,911 annual heating degree days against 552 for cooling. Its 47.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 120 days are frost-free in a normal year. That short interval is consistent with the cold-season signal, but the measure does not predict the exact first or last freeze in any one year.
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1. Elko Nws Office coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 26°F (-3°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Elko Nws Office typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Elko Nws Office snow peak
December
Elko Nws Office averages 38.8 inches of snow a year, with December 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 Elko Nws Office's primary station: ELKO NWS OFFICE (USC00262570). 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 Elko Nws Office; 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 Elko Nws Office 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.