Hite Ranger Station, UT 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 Hite Ranger Station's primary NOAA station, HITE RS.
The climate verdict for Hite Ranger Station
Dryness leads the climate profile for Hite Ranger Station, Utah, with 8.7 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 62°F. Its climate comfort score of 73/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 66% of station-mapped location scores.
- 62°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 73/100
- comfort score, above 66% of station-mapped location scores
- 8.7"
- precipitation, annual total
- 256 days
- frost-free growing season
Hite Ranger Station: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00423980 · Hite Ranger Station, UT 62°F mean · 8.7" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-MID · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 62°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,489
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Altus Irig Rsch
- PRCP-ARID 8.7"
- SWING-WIDE 50°F
- COMF-MID 73/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00423980
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Altus Irig Rsch Stn, OK (+ 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 UT station list.
- Hite Ranger Sta… (this station) 62°F
- Hot Centreville, AL 62°F
- Near Altus Irig Rsch, OK 62°F
- Near Anderson County, SC 62°F
- Near Balch Pwr House, CA 62°F
Climate Living Index · Hite Ranger Station
Hite Ranger Station: 59/100 · grade C
Hite Ranger Station publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Hite Ranger Station, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 73/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 256 days/year | 91/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 61.9°F · 5.6° from 67.5°F | 83/100 · B |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 144 calendar days | 51/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 8.7 in · 26.3 from 35 in | 9/100 · F |
Hite Ranger Station · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Hite Ranger Station'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
- 88.0°F
- Coldest month
- 37.7°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 · balanced station
Where Hite Ranger Station sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Hite Ranger Station's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 20% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Hite Ranger Station sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 96%
- Hite Ranger Station's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 82%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Hite Ranger Station is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Hite Ranger Station compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Hite Ranger Station's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
73 Top 34% score exceeds 66% 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%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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 | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 45°F (7°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 0.9" | 22.4 | 0.0 |
| February | 53°F (11°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 0.7" | 13.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 63°F (17°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 0.7" | 3.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 71°F (22°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 0.6" | 0.7 | 0.3 |
| May | 80°F (27°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.6" | 0.1 | 6.9 |
| June | 93°F (34°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 0.3" | 0.0 | 22.9 |
| July | 98°F (37°C) | 78°F (25°C) | 88°F (31°C) | 0.8" | 0.0 | 30.5 |
| August | 95°F (35°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 85°F (29°C) | 0.8" | 0.0 | 28.2 |
| September | 87°F (30°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 76°F (25°C) | 1.0" | 0.0 | 14.6 |
| October | 72°F (22°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 1.1" | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| November | 57°F (14°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 0.5" | 4.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 46°F (8°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 38°F (4°C) | 0.7" | 20.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Hite Ranger Station works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 99°F by July 14 and hold at or above 90°F on 92 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 52 dates, bottoming at 30°F around January 1.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 8 through September 7, covering 92 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 13 to October 19.
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 January 28, then returns to freezing around December 8, covering 52 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.
The widest day
June 3 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 Hite Ranger Station.
Where Hite Ranger Station Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 9 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 92 days a year, more than four out of five ranked stations record.
Hite Ranger Station earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Hite Ranger Station spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 22% of the annual total and December through February 26%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Hite Ranger Station has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 50.3°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: October averages 1.1" and June 0.3". The three wettest months together take 35% 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 20
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 9
50% probability date
Growing Season
256 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,562
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
2,452
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside UT closest to Hite Ranger Station 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 (62°F here).
- Centreville, AL 62°F · 0.0°F off
- Cheraw, SC 62°F · 0.0°F off
- Childress, TX 62°F · 0.0°F off
- Deming, NM 62°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (8.7" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Florence, AZ 8.6" · 0.0" off
- Yakima, WA 8.6" · 0.1" off
- Prosser, WA 8.7" · 0.1" off
- Montello -, NV 8.8" · 0.1" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Hite Ranger Station's limited precipitation lands
mixed demand · dry · mid swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 8.7 inches annually, within PlainClimate's dry band. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The monthly distribution matters because the total alone does not reveal the timing.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Hite Ranger Station's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 50.3°F. The annual average is 62°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Hite Ranger Station's normal, at 3,562 and 2,452 degree days respectively. Neither total exceeds the other by more than two to one, so the record is better read as a mixed-demand calendar than as heating-led or cooling-led.
Hite Ranger Station has a long frost-free window of roughly 256 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
Hite Ranger Station wettest normal
October
October concentrates the scarce annual total (8.7 inches).
Hite Ranger Station driest normal
June
June is typically driest; arid stations are defined by when water is absent, not by a four-season grid.
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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 Hite Ranger Station's primary station: HITE RS (USC00423980). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Hite Ranger Station; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Hite Ranger Station 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.