Georgetown, CO Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Georgetown's primary NOAA station, GEORGETOWN.
The climate verdict for Georgetown
Dryness leads the climate profile for Georgetown, Colorado, with 18.3 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 42°F. At 34/100 (below average) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 2% of scores.
- 42°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 34/100
- comfort score, above 2% of station-mapped location scores
- 18.3"
- annual precipitation · 106" snow
- 112 days
- frost-free growing season
Georgetown: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00053261 · Georgetown, CO 42°F mean · 18.3" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 42°F
- RANK-COOL #617
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Kodiak
- PRCP-DRY 18.3"
- SWING-MID 37°F
- COMF-LOW 34/100
- LOAD-HEAT 8,312 HDD
- STN-1 USC00053261
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Kodiak, AK (+ 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 CO station list.
- Georgetown (this station) 42°F
- Hot Alamosa San Luis, CO 42°F
- Near Kodiak, AK 42°F
- Near Mt Leconte, TN 42°F
- Near Center, CO 42°F
Climate Living Index · Georgetown
Georgetown: 13/100 · grade F
Georgetown publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Georgetown, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 34/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 18.3 in · 16.7 from 35 in | 41/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 42.2°F · 25.3° from 67.5°F | 10/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 211 calendar days | 9/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 112 days/year | 3/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 105.9 inches/year | 0/100 · F |
Georgetown · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Georgetown is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 25.9°F and warmest-month mean 62.9°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
- 62.9°F
- Coldest month
- 25.9°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 Georgetown sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Georgetown's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 91%
- Among 6,861 stations, Georgetown sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 75%
- Georgetown's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 77%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Georgetown is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Georgetown compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Georgetown's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
34 2nd percentile score exceeds 2% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Above this entry.
- 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) | 0.8" | 12.5" | 30.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 38°F (3°C) | 15°F (-9°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 0.9" | 12.6" | 27.7 | 0.0 |
| March | 45°F (7°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 1.4" | 18.5" | 29.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 50°F (10°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 2.3" | 20.9" | 25.7 | 0.0 |
| May | 60°F (15°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 2.1" | 6.6" | 12.7 | 0.0 |
| June | 72°F (22°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 1.5" | 0.2" | 1.1 | 0.0 |
| July | 77°F (25°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 2.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| August | 75°F (24°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 2.2" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| September | 68°F (20°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 1.5" | 1.6" | 4.8 | 0.0 |
| October | 57°F (14°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 1.3" | 7.5" | 19.0 | 0.0 |
| November | 44°F (7°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 0.9" | 11.1" | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 36°F (2°C) | 15°F (-9°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 0.9" | 14.4" | 30.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 78°F around July 14, short of 90°F on every date, while 211 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 15°F near February 4.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 7, then returns to freezing around October 10, covering 211 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 August 1, when 44% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is October 28 at 23%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 120 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 22 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 30°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Georgetown.
Where Georgetown Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 211 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Georgetown earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 12.5"
8.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 12.6"
9.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 18.5"
10.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 20.9"
11.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.6"
10.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
9.5 days with precipitation
13.4 days with precipitation
13.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.6"
9.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.5"
7.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.1"
7.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 14.4"
8.5 days with precipitation
Georgetown spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 34% of the annual total and December through February 14%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Georgetown has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 37°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: July averages 2.5" and January 0.8". The three wettest months together take 38% 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.
Georgetown is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 119 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 33% of the calendar, and they carry 18.3" between them. At roughly 0.15 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 August at about 14 wet days; the driest is November at about 7.
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 Georgetown
Georgetown averages 105.9 inches of snowfall a year, with April the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 61 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: 105.9 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 61 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 58% 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 19
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 30
50% probability date
Growing Season
112 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,312
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
41
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CO closest to Georgetown 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 (42°F here).
- Altamont, UT 42°F · 0.0°F off
- Carson, ND 42°F · 0.0°F off
- Chama, NM 42°F · 0.0°F off
- Driggs, ID 42°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (18.3" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Sublette, KS 18.3" · 0.0" off
- Levelland, TX 18.3" · 0.0" off
- Fort Pierre, SD 18.3" · 0.0" off
- Lava Hot Springs, ID 18.3" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Georgetown
heating led · dry · mid swing
Georgetown's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,312 annual heating degree days against 41 for cooling. Its 37.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 112 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. Georgetown 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. Georgetown typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Georgetown snow peak
April
Georgetown averages 105.9 inches of snow a year, with April 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 Georgetown's primary station: GEORGETOWN (USC00053261). 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 0829735). Match rule for Georgetown: 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 Georgetown 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.