Hayes Center, NE Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Hayes Center's primary NOAA station, HAYES CENTER 1NW.
The climate verdict for Hayes Center
Hayes Center, Nebraska has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 50°F. Its climate comfort score of 59/100 (moderate) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 37% of station-mapped location scores.
- 50°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 59/100
- comfort score, above 37% of station-mapped location scores
- 21.5"
- annual precipitation · 30" snow
- 160 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Hayes Center: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00024020 · Hayes Center, NE 50°F mean · 21.5" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-WIDE · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 50°F
- RANK-MID #2,813
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bloomington
- PRCP-DRY 21.5"
- SWING-WIDE 48°F
- COMF-MID 59/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,236 HDD
- STN-1 USW00024020
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Bloomington, IL (+ 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 NE station list.
- Hayes Center (this station) 50°F
- Cold Little Sahara R…, UT 50°F
- Hot Central City, NE 50°F
- Near Bloomington, IL 50°F
- Near Ottawa, IL 50°F
Climate Living Index · Hayes Center
Hayes Center: 40/100 · grade D
Hayes Center publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Hayes Center, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 59/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 21.5 in · 13.5 from 35 in | 53/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 50.2°F · 17.3° from 67.5°F | 41/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 30.2 inches/year | 38/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 166 calendar days | 35/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 160 days/year | 33/100 · F |
Hayes Center · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Hayes Center is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 27.3°F and warmest-month mean 74.9°F place this station in continental, no dry season, hot summer climates (Dfa). Class Dfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 74.9°F
- Coldest month
- 27.3°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 Hayes Center sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Hayes Center's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 41st percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 70%
- Hayes Center's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 71%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Hayes Center is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Hayes Center compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Hayes Center's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
59 37th percentile score exceeds 37% 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
Hayes Center's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 89 complete annual observations from 1909 to 2025, HAYES CENTER 1NW warmed at a fitted rate of 0.15°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Hayes Center primary station fitted change +0.15 °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 | 40°F (4°C) | 15°F (-10°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 0.4" | 5.1" | 30.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 43°F (6°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 0.5" | 6.3" | 26.6 | 0.0 |
| March | 54°F (12°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 1.1" | 4.2" | 24.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 62°F (17°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 2.1" | 3.7" | 11.5 | 0.2 |
| May | 72°F (22°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 3.6" | 0.2" | 1.8 | 1.6 |
| June | 83°F (28°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 3.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 7.5 |
| July | 89°F (32°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 3.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 15.2 |
| August | 87°F (31°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 2.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 11.6 |
| September | 79°F (26°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 1.7" | 0.1" | 0.2 | 5.6 |
| October | 66°F (19°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 1.7" | 2.2" | 8.7 | 0.5 |
| November | 52°F (11°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 0.6" | 3.5" | 23.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 41°F (5°C) | 17°F (-9°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 0.5" | 4.9" | 30.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 90°F around July 19, short of 90°F on every date, while 166 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 15°F near January 1.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 9, then returns to freezing around October 27, covering 166 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 24, when 34% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is November 26 at 11%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 77 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 21 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 Hayes Center.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 5.1"
3.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.3"
4.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.2"
5.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.7"
8.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
10.5 days with precipitation
9.4 days with precipitation
8.9 days with precipitation
7.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
5.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.2"
6.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.5"
3.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.9"
3.6 days with precipitation
Hayes Center runs a summer-peaked wet season
43% of Hayes Center'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 May at 3.6", on a wide 47.6°F gap between its warmest and coldest month. 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: May, June, July, taking 47% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: January at 0.4".
- Winter share: 6% 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 Hayes Center's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 77 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 21.5" between them, or roughly 0.28 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 Hayes Center
Hayes Center averages 30.2 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 16 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: 30.2 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 16 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 14% 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 10
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 3
50% probability date
Growing Season
160 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,236
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
874
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NE closest to Hayes Center 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 (50°F here).
- Aurora, IL 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Bloomington, IL 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Boone, NC 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Buhl, ID 50°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (21.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Placerville, CO 21.5" · 0.0" off
- Vallejo, CA 21.5" · 0.0" off
- Kaltag, AK 21.5" · 0.0" off
- Kyle, SD 21.6" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Hayes Center
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Hayes Center's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,236 annual heating degree days against 874 for cooling. Its 47.6°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Hayes Center's frost-free season lasts about 160 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. Hayes Center coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 27°F (-3°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Hayes Center typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Hayes Center snow peak
February
Hayes Center averages 30.2 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 Hayes Center's primary station: HAYES CENTER 1NW (USW00024020). 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 3121660). Match rule for Hayes Center: 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 Hayes Center 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.