Grenville, NM Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Grenville's primary NOAA station, GRENVILLE.
The climate verdict for Grenville
Dryness leads the climate profile for Grenville, New Mexico, with 16.6 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 52°F. At 54/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 52°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 54/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 16.6"
- annual precipitation · 18" snow
- 157 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Grenville: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00293706 · Grenville, NM 52°F mean · 16.6" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 52°F
- RANK-MID #3,362
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Sagemoor
- PRCP-DRY 16.6"
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-LOW 54/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,364 HDD
- STN-1 USC00293706
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Sagemoor, WA (+ 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 NM station list.
- Grenville (this station) 52°F
- Cold Rock Cave, WV 52°F
- Hot Pendleton, OR 52°F
- Near Sagemoor, WA 52°F
- Near Hermiston, OR 52°F
Climate Living Index · Grenville
Grenville: 43/100 · grade D
Grenville publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Grenville, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 54/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 17.9 inches/year | 51/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 51.9°F · 15.6° from 67.5°F | 49/100 · D |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 155 calendar days | 43/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 16.6 in · 18.4 from 35 in | 34/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 157 days/year | 31/100 · F |
Grenville · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Grenville'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
- 72.1°F
- Coldest month
- 33.5°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 Grenville sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Grenville's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 49th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 79%
- Grenville's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 70%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Grenville is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Grenville compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Grenville's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
54 31st percentile score exceeds 31% 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
Grenville's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 45 complete annual observations from 1941 to 2019, GRENVILLE warmed at a fitted rate of 0.18°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Grenville primary station fitted change +0.18 °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 | 47°F (8°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 0.4" | 3.2" | 29.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 50°F (10°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 0.4" | 3.3" | 26.1 | 0.0 |
| March | 58°F (15°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 0.8" | 2.1" | 22.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 65°F (18°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 1.1" | 1.3" | 13.2 | 0.0 |
| May | 74°F (23°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 1.6" | 0.0" | 2.2 | 1.0 |
| June | 83°F (29°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 1.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 7.8 |
| July | 86°F (30°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 3.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 12.5 |
| August | 84°F (29°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 3.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 7.2 |
| September | 78°F (26°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 1.8" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 1.6 |
| October | 68°F (20°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 1.0" | 0.7" | 8.0 | 0.1 |
| November | 56°F (13°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 0.4" | 2.2" | 22.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 47°F (8°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 0.5" | 5.1" | 29.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 87°F around July 7, short of 90°F on every date, while 155 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 20°F near December 20.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 5, then returns to freezing around November 3, covering 155 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 July 28, when 32% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is December 10 at 7%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 56 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 8 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 31°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Grenville.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 3.2"
2.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.3"
2.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.1"
3.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.3"
4.7 days with precipitation
6.0 days with precipitation
6.8 days with precipitation
9.1 days with precipitation
8.9 days with precipitation
4.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.7"
2.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.2"
2.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.1"
2.4 days with precipitation
Grenville runs a summer-peaked wet season
52% of Grenville's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is July at 3.6", on a 38.6°F seasonal spread. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: July, August, June, taking 52% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: January at 0.4".
- Winter share: 7% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
How Grenville's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 56 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 16.6" between them, or roughly 0.29 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.
Winter brings real snow to Grenville
Grenville averages 17.9 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 7 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: 17.9 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 7 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 11% 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 5
50% probability date
Growing Season
157 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,364
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
607
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NM closest to Grenville 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 (52°F here).
- Atwood, KS 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Boston, MA 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Connellsville, PA 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Curtis, NE 52°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (16.6" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Campo, CO 16.6" · 0.0" off
- Seibert, CO 16.6" · 0.0" off
- Pine Ridge, SD 16.6" · 0.0" off
- Kamas, UT 16.6" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Grenville
heating led · dry · mid swing
Grenville's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,364 annual heating degree days against 607 for cooling. Its 38.6°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Grenville's frost-free season lasts about 157 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Grenville coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 34°F (1°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Grenville typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Grenville snow peak
December
Grenville averages 17.9 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 Grenville's primary station: GRENVILLE (USC00293706). 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 3530770). Match rule for Grenville: 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 Grenville 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.