Hiko, NV Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Hiko's primary NOAA station, HIKO.
The climate verdict for Hiko
Dryness leads the climate profile for Hiko, Nevada, with 7.3 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 57°F. Its climate comfort score of 63/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 46% of station-mapped location scores.
- 57°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 63/100
- comfort score, above 46% of station-mapped location scores
- 7.3"
- annual precipitation · 2" snow
- 189 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Hiko: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00263671 · Hiko, NV 57°F mean · 7.3" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 57°F
- RANK-UPPER #4,597
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Scottsville
- PRCP-ARID 7.3"
- SWING-MID 41°F
- COMF-MID 63/100
- LOAD-HEAT 4,108 HDD
- STN-1 USC00263671
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Scottsville, KY (+ 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 NV station list.
- Hiko (this station) 57°F
- Cold Summer Shade, KY 57°F
- Hot Philpott Dam, VA 57°F
- Near Scottsville, KY 57°F
- Near Mocksville, NC 57°F
Climate Living Index · Hiko
Hiko: 41/100 · grade D
Hiko publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Hiko, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 63/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 2.3 inches/year | 75/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 57.0°F · 10.5° from 67.5°F | 66/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 189 days/year | 56/100 · C |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 197 calendar days | 16/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 7.3 in · 27.7 from 35 in | 6/100 · F |
Hiko · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Hiko's normals sit in a dry climate class: BWk
Annual precipitation falls well below the aridity threshold for this temperature regime, so the normals classify as cold desert (BWk). Class BWk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold desert.
- Köppen code
- BWk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 78.1°F
- Coldest month
- 37.6°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 Hiko sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Hiko's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 67th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 98%
- Hiko's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 38th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Hiko compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Hiko's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
63 46th percentile score exceeds 46% 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%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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 | 52°F (11°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 0.7" | 0.9" | 26.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 56°F (13°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 0.9" | 0.6" | 19.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 63°F (17°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 13.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 70°F (21°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 4.6 | 0.1 |
| May | 79°F (26°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 3.5 |
| June | 89°F (32°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 18.0 |
| July | 95°F (35°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 78°F (26°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 27.9 |
| August | 94°F (34°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 76°F (25°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 25.6 |
| September | 86°F (30°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 11.5 |
| October | 75°F (24°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 2.5 | 1.0 |
| November | 62°F (16°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 0.4" | 0.6" | 17.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 51°F (10°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 0.9" | 0.2" | 28.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Hiko works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 96°F by July 21 and hold at or above 90°F on 80 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 117 dates, bottoming at 24°F around December 17.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 17 through September 4, covering 80 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 18 to October 28.
This counts calendar dates whose 1991–2020 normal high reaches 90°F. It is a smaller number than the 90°F+ day counts in the monthly table above, which measure how often the threshold was actually crossed in a typical year. A date can average 88°F and still exceed 90°F in half of all years.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 7, then returns to freezing around November 12, covering 117 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 February 20, when 17% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 22 at 6%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 36 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 15 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 Hiko.
Where Hiko Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 7 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Heat is a defining feature of the normals calendar — the normal daily high reaches 90°F on roughly 80 days a year, more than four out of five ranked stations record.
Hiko 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: 0.9"
4.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
4.7 days with precipitation
4.1 days with precipitation
3.1 days with precipitation
2.7 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
2.8 days with precipitation
2.7 days with precipitation
2.0 days with precipitation
2.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
2.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
3.1 days with precipitation
Hiko spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 19% of the annual total and December through February 35%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Hiko has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 40.5°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: February averages 0.9" and June 0.3". The three wettest months together take 36% 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.
How Hiko's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 36 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 7.3" between them, or roughly 0.20 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.
Snow reaches Hiko, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 2.3 inches of snow a year here, most likely in January. That is a real but marginal amount: enough that snow is part of the local record, not enough to define the winter.
A figure in this range usually reflects a handful of events that melt quickly rather than a season of accumulation; about 2 days a year record any measurable snow at all.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. An average across thirty years can smooth away a single heavy winter, so a small annual figure does not mean a significant snowfall is impossible.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 26
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 20
50% probability date
Growing Season
189 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,108
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,224
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Hiko 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 (57°F here).
- Bedford, VA 57°F · 0.0°F off
- Chino Valley, AZ 57°F · 0.0°F off
- Dimmitt, TX 57°F · 0.0°F off
- Evening Shade, AR 57°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (7.3" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Richland, WA 7.3" · 0.0" off
- Bluff, UT 7.3" · 0.0" off
- Alamosa, CO 7.3" · 0.0" off
- Fruitland, NM 7.3" · 0.0" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Hiko's limited precipitation lands
heating led · dry · mid swing
Hiko's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 4,108 annual heating degree days against 1,224 for cooling. Its 40.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Hiko's frost-free season lasts about 189 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Hiko's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 40.5°F. The annual average is 57°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Hiko's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 7.3 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Annual snowfall totals 2.3 inches. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
Hiko wettest normal
February
February concentrates the scarce annual total (7.3 inches).
Hiko driest normal
June
June is typically driest; arid stations are defined by when water is absent, not by a four-season grid.
Questions about Hiko's climate
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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 Hiko's primary station: HIKO (USC00263671). 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 3232900), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Hiko: 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 Hiko 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.