Flaming Gorge, UT 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 Flaming Gorge's primary NOAA station, FLAMING GORGE.
The climate verdict for Flaming Gorge
Dryness leads the climate profile for Flaming Gorge, Utah, with 11.8 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 46°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.
- 46°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 11.8"
- annual precipitation · 44" snow
- 120 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Flaming Gorge: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00422864 · Flaming Gorge, UT 46°F mean · 11.8" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 46°F
- RANK-COOL #1,509
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Salamanca
- PRCP-ARID 11.8"
- SWING-MID 45°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,300 HDD
- STN-1 USC00422864
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Salamanca, NY (+ 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 UT station list.
- Flaming Gorge (this station) 46°F
- Hot Trenton, UT 46°F
- Near Salamanca, NY 46°F
- Near Pownal, VT 46°F
- Near Norwich, NY 46°F
Climate Living Index · Flaming Gorge
Flaming Gorge: 19/100 · grade F
Flaming Gorge publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Flaming Gorge, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 43.7 inches/year | 24/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 45.8°F · 21.7° from 67.5°F | 22/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 192 calendar days | 18/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 11.8 in · 23.2 from 35 in | 18/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 120 days/year | 7/100 · F |
Flaming Gorge · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Flaming Gorge is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 24.8°F and warmest-month mean 69.6°F place this station in continental, no dry season, warm summer climates (Dfb). Class Dfb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 69.6°F
- Coldest month
- 24.8°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 Flaming Gorge sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Flaming Gorge's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 78%
- Among 6,861 stations, Flaming Gorge sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 90%
- Flaming Gorge's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 57th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Flaming Gorge compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Flaming Gorge'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
Flaming Gorge's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 48 complete annual observations from 1958 to 2025, FLAMING GORGE warmed at a fitted rate of 0.24°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Flaming Gorge primary station fitted change +0.24 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 37°F (3°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 0.5" | 8.1" | 30.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 40°F (4°C) | 15°F (-9°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 0.7" | 8.6" | 26.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 50°F (10°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 0.9" | 6.6" | 27.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 57°F (14°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 1.1" | 3.6" | 20.8 | 0.0 |
| May | 67°F (19°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 1.4" | 0.6" | 8.7 | 0.1 |
| June | 79°F (26°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 1.1 | 3.6 |
| July | 87°F (30°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 12.8 |
| August | 84°F (29°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 1.2" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 6.9 |
| September | 75°F (24°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 1.7" | 0.1" | 3.9 | 0.8 |
| October | 62°F (16°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 1.4" | 2.4" | 18.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 46°F (8°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 0.5" | 6.3" | 26.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 36°F (2°C) | 13°F (-10°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 0.5" | 7.4" | 30.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 88°F around July 21, short of 90°F on every date, while 192 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 12°F near December 21.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 24, then returns to freezing around October 16, covering 192 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 May 20, when 22% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 1 at 13%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 63 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 1 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 35°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Flaming Gorge.
Where Flaming Gorge Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 12 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Freezing is routine here by normals standards — the normal low reaches 32°F or colder on about 192 nights a year, more than most ranked stations.
Flaming Gorge 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: 8.1"
4.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.6"
4.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.6"
5.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.6"
6.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
6.6 days with precipitation
5.3 days with precipitation
5.3 days with precipitation
6.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
5.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.4"
5.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.3"
4.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.4"
4.2 days with precipitation
Flaming Gorge spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 27% of the annual total and December through February 14%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Flaming Gorge has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 44.8°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: September averages 1.7" and January 0.5". The three wettest months together take 37% 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.
Flaming Gorge is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 63 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 17% of the calendar, and they carry 11.8" between them. At roughly 0.19 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 May at about 7 wet days; the driest is January 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 Flaming Gorge
Flaming Gorge averages 43.7 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 19 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: 43.7 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 19 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
7,300
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
346
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside UT closest to Flaming Gorge 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).
- Angelica, NY 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Cass City, MI 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Gardiner, ME 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Germantown, WI 46°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (11.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Delta Junction, AK 11.8" · 0.0" off
- Gulkana, AK 11.8" · 0.0" off
- Benson, AZ 11.8" · 0.0" off
- Hawthorne, CA 11.8" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Flaming Gorge
heating led · dry · mid swing
Flaming Gorge's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,300 annual heating degree days against 346 for cooling. Its 44.8°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. Flaming Gorge coldest normal
January
Averaging 25°F (-4°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Flaming Gorge typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Flaming Gorge snow peak
February
Flaming Gorge averages 43.7 inches of snow a year, with February 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 Flaming Gorge's primary station: FLAMING GORGE (USC00422864). 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 a census-designated place (GEOID 4925910), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Flaming Gorge: 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 Flaming Gorge 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.