Enterprise, OR Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Enterprise's primary NOAA station, ENTERPRISE 20 NNE.
The climate verdict for Enterprise
Dryness leads the climate profile for Enterprise, Oregon, with 19.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 46°F. At 52/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 24% of scores.
- 46°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 52/100
- comfort score, above 24% of station-mapped location scores
- 19.0"
- annual precipitation
- 89 days
- frost-free growing season
Enterprise: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00352678 · Enterprise, OR 46°F mean · 19.0" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 46°F
- RANK-COOL #1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Trout Creek Ran…
- PRCP-DRY 19.0"
- SWING-MID 40°F
- COMF-LOW 52/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,116 HDD
- STN-1 USC00352678
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Trout Creek Ranger Station, MT (+ 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 OR station list.
- Enterprise (this station) 46°F
- Cold Wallace, ID 46°F
- Hot Malta, ID 46°F
- Near Trout Creek Ran…, MT 46°F
- Near Sandpoint, ID 46°F
Climate Living Index · Enterprise
Enterprise: 17/100 · grade F
Enterprise publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Enterprise, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 52/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 19.0 in · 16.0 from 35 in | 43/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 46.1°F · 21.4° from 67.5°F | 24/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 89 days/year | 0/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 233 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
Enterprise · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Enterprise is a continental Köppen climate: Dsb
Coldest-month mean 27.1°F and warmest-month mean 66.6°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Dsb). Class Dsb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 66.6°F
- Coldest month
- 27.1°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 Enterprise sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Enterprise's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 77%
- Among 6,861 stations, Enterprise sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 74%
- Enterprise's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 33rd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Enterprise compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Enterprise's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
52 24th percentile score exceeds 24% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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 | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38°F (3°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 1.6" | 29.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 45°F (7°C) | 20°F (-6°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 1.5" | 26.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 51°F (11°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 1.5" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 59°F (15°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 1.9" | 19.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 69°F (21°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 2.1" | 10.4 | 1.2 |
| June | 77°F (25°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 1.9" | 2.6 | 3.5 |
| July | 88°F (31°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 0.8" | 0.6 | 14.0 |
| August | 89°F (32°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.7" | 1.3 | 14.5 |
| September | 80°F (26°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 0.9" | 9.2 | 6.1 |
| October | 63°F (17°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 1.3" | 20.5 | 0.6 |
| November | 46°F (8°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 2.3" | 25.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 36°F (2°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 2.3" | 30.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Enterprise works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 91°F by July 29 and hold at or above 90°F on 23 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 210 dates, bottoming at 17°F around December 28.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 21 through August 12, covering 23 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 19 to October 5.
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 29, then returns to freezing around October 3, covering 210 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 November 22, when 33% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is September 12 at 10%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 84 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 3 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 45°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Enterprise.
Where Enterprise Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 210 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 45°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Enterprise earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
7.8 days with precipitation
6.7 days with precipitation
8.3 days with precipitation
9.0 days with precipitation
8.9 days with precipitation
7.8 days with precipitation
4.4 days with precipitation
3.4 days with precipitation
2.8 days with precipitation
5.4 days with precipitation
9.9 days with precipitation
8.6 days with precipitation
Enterprise spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 19% of the annual total and December through February 29%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Enterprise has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 39.5°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: December averages 2.3" and August 0.7". The three wettest months together take 35% 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.
How Enterprise's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 83 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 19.0" between them, or roughly 0.23 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 5
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 8
50% probability date
Growing Season
89 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,116
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
248
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside OR closest to Enterprise 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 (46°F here).
- Burlington, WI 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Colstrip, MT 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Cottonwood, SD 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Deaver, WY 46°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (19.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Hansboro, ND 19.0" · 0.0" off
- Center, ND 18.9" · 0.0" off
- Garden City, KS 18.9" · 0.0" off
- Willow City, ND 18.9" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Enterprise's climate pattern fits together
heating led · dry · mid swing
Enterprise's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,116 annual heating degree days against 248 for cooling. Its 39.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 89 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.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Enterprise's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 39.5°F. The annual average is 46°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Enterprise's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 19.0 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Enterprise's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Enterprise, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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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 Enterprise's primary station: ENTERPRISE 20 NNE (USC00352678). 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 4123500). Match rule for Enterprise: 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 Enterprise 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.