Government Camp, OR 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 Government Camp's primary NOAA station, GOVERNMENT CAMP.
The climate verdict for Government Camp
Water is the standout signal in Government Camp, Oregon: 89.8 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 43°F. At 24/100 (below average) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 0% of scores.
- 43°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 24/100
- comfort score, above 0% of station-mapped location scores
- 89.8"
- annual precipitation · 233" snow
- 135 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Government Camp: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00353402 · Government Camp, OR 43°F mean · 89.8" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 43°F
- RANK-COOL #823
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Reese River Ione
- PRCP-WET 89.8"
- SWING-NARROW 29°F
- COMF-LOW 24/100
- LOAD-HEAT 8,117 HDD
- STN-1 USC00353402
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Reese River Ione, NV ( -0.1 °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.
- Government Camp (this station) 43°F
- Cold Reese River Ione, NV 43°F
- Hot Cimarron, CO 43°F
- Near Estes Park, CO 43°F
- Near Meacham, OR 43°F
Climate Living Index · Government Camp
Government Camp: 14/100 · grade F
Government Camp publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Government Camp, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 24/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 172 calendar days | 31/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 135 days/year | 15/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 42.9°F · 24.6° from 67.5°F | 12/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 89.8 in · 54.8 from 35 in | 0/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 232.5 inches/year | 0/100 · F |
Government Camp · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Government Camp is a continental Köppen climate: Dsb
Coldest-month mean 30.5°F and warmest-month mean 59.3°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
- 59.3°F
- Coldest month
- 30.5°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 Government Camp sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Government Camp's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 88%
- Among 6,861 stations, Government Camp sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 1% wettest
- Government Camp's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 92%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Government Camp is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Government Camp compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Government Camp's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
24 0th percentile score exceeds 0% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Above this entry.
- 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
Government Camp's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 61 complete annual observations from 1952 to 2025, GOVERNMENT CAMP warmed at a fitted rate of 0.20°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Government Camp primary station fitted change +0.20 °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) | 26°F (-3°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 12.6" | 48.8" | 26.1 | 0.0 |
| February | 38°F (3°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 9.6" | 39.5" | 24.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 41°F (5°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 9.4" | 35.6" | 25.2 | 0.0 |
| April | 45°F (7°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 7.8" | 17.6" | 21.7 | 0.0 |
| May | 54°F (12°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 5.8" | 4.2" | 10.6 | 0.0 |
| June | 59°F (15°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 4.0" | 0.6" | 1.7 | 0.1 |
| July | 69°F (21°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| August | 70°F (21°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| September | 64°F (18°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 3.1" | 0.2" | 1.1 | 0.0 |
| October | 53°F (12°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 8.4" | 3.8" | 9.4 | 0.0 |
| November | 42°F (5°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 12.7" | 30.6" | 21.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 35°F (2°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 14.4" | 51.6" | 28.2 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 72°F around July 31, short of 90°F on every date, while 172 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 25°F near December 20.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 27, then returns to freezing around November 8, covering 172 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 December 15, when 68% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 30 at 10%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 170 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 31 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 23°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Government Camp.
Where Government Camp Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 90 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 23°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Government Camp 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: 48.8"
20.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 39.5"
17.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 35.6"
19.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 17.6"
18.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.2"
14.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
10.6 days with precipitation
3.8 days with precipitation
4.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
7.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.8"
13.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 30.6"
18.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 51.6"
21.0 days with precipitation
Government Camp'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 7%. 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 an unusually narrow 28.8°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 14.4"
- Driest month
- July, 0.9"
- Wettest three months
- December, November, January (44% 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.
When it rains in Government Camp, it arrives in quantity
89.8" of precipitation falls across only about 169 wet days here, averaging 0.53 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 169 a year, 46% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.53 inches
- Most wet days
- December, about 21
- Fewest wet days
- July, about 4
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Winter brings real snow to Government Camp
Government Camp averages 232.5 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 58 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: 232.5 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 58 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 26% 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
October 9
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 27
50% probability date
Growing Season
135 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,117
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
73
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside OR closest to Government Camp 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 (43°F here).
- Columbia, SD 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Denio, NV 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Fullerton, ND 43°F · 0.0°F off
- Grand Meadow, MN 43°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (89.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Klawock, AK 89.2" · 0.6" off
- Paauilo, HI 90.4" · 0.6" off
- Highlands, NC 88.3" · 1.5" off
- Hyder, AK 92.5" · 2.8" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Government Camp
heating led · wet · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Government Camp, at 8,117 degree days versus 73 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 28.8°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
Only about 135 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. Government Camp coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 31°F (-1°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Government Camp typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Government Camp snow peak
December
Government Camp averages 232.5 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 Government Camp's primary station: GOVERNMENT CAMP (USC00353402). 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 4130250), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Government Camp: 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 Government Camp 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.