Huntington Lake, CA 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 Huntington Lake's primary NOAA station, HUNTINGTON LAKE.
The climate verdict for Huntington Lake
A compact 28.1°F seasonal swing gives Huntington Lake, California a steadier-than-extreme annual shape. NOAA reports an annual average of 45°F. Its climate comfort score of 64/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 49% of station-mapped location scores.
- 45°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 64/100
- comfort score, above 49% of station-mapped location scores
- 44.4"
- annual precipitation
- 127 days
- frost-free growing season
Huntington Lake: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00044176 · Huntington Lake, CA 45°F mean · 44.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-NARROW · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 45°F
- RANK-COOL #1,372
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Klawock
- PRCP-MID 44.4"
- SWING-NARROW 28°F
- COMF-MID 64/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,209 HDD
- STN-1 USC00044176
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Klawock, AK ( -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 CA station list.
- Hot O O Rch, OR 46°F
- Huntington Lake (this station) 45°F
- Cold Klawock, AK 45°F
- Near Grizzly, OR 45°F
- Near Snowball Rch, NV 45°F
Climate Living Index · Huntington Lake
Huntington Lake: 31/100 · grade F
Huntington Lake publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Huntington Lake, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 64/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 44.4 in · 9.4 from 35 in | 67/100 · C |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 176 calendar days | 28/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 45.3°F · 22.2° from 67.5°F | 21/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 127 days/year | 10/100 · F |
Huntington Lake · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Huntington Lake is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 33.6°F and warmest-month mean 61.7°F place this station in temperate, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Csb). Class Csb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Csb
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 61.7°F
- Coldest month
- 33.6°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 Huntington Lake sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Huntington Lake's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 80%
- Among 6,861 stations, Huntington Lake sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 67th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 93%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Huntington Lake is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Huntington Lake compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Huntington Lake's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
64 49th percentile score exceeds 49% 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 | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43°F (6°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 8.5" | 25.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 44°F (7°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 7.8" | 23.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 46°F (8°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 6.8" | 24.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 50°F (10°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 4.0" | 20.1 | 0.0 |
| May | 56°F (13°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 2.4" | 8.6 | 0.0 |
| June | 66°F (19°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 0.7" | 1.2 | 0.0 |
| July | 74°F (23°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 0.7" | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| August | 74°F (24°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| September | 68°F (20°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 0.4" | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| October | 58°F (15°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 47°F (9°C) | 2.3" | 6.2 | 0.0 |
| November | 49°F (10°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 3.9" | 17.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 44°F (7°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 6.8" | 25.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 75°F around August 1, short of 90°F on every date, while 176 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 23°F near February 6.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 1, then returns to freezing around November 8, covering 176 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 18, when 42% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 16 at 3%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 77 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 19 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 26°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Huntington Lake.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
10.8 days with precipitation
11.9 days with precipitation
9.9 days with precipitation
8.6 days with precipitation
6.3 days with precipitation
2.1 days with precipitation
1.9 days with precipitation
0.5 days with precipitation
1.8 days with precipitation
4.4 days with precipitation
7.6 days with precipitation
10.1 days with precipitation
Huntington Lake's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 52% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 3%. 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 28.1°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- January, 8.5"
- Driest month
- August, 0.1"
- Wettest three months
- January, February, December (52% 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 Huntington Lake, it arrives in quantity
44.4" of precipitation falls across only about 76 wet days here, averaging 0.59 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 76 a year, 21% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.59 inches
- Most wet days
- February, about 12
- Fewest wet days
- August, about 1
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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 6
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 1
50% probability date
Growing Season
127 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,209
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
60
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Huntington Lake 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 (45°F here).
- Cherry Valley, NY 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Delhi, NY 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Ekalaka, MT 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Kennebunkport, ME 45°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (44.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Carmel, IN 44.4" · 0.0" off
- Kokomo, IN 44.4" · 0.0" off
- Middletown, NY 44.4" · 0.0" off
- Weldon Spring, MO 44.4" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Huntington Lake's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Huntington Lake, at 7,209 degree days versus 60 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 28.1°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
Only about 127 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.
Temperature varies within a narrow 28.1°F band across the normal year. August and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar. The annual average is 45°F. Monthly rows still matter, but they refine a steady profile rather than reveal two climatic extremes.
Huntington Lake's 44.4 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Huntington Lake's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Huntington Lake, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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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 Huntington Lake's primary station: HUNTINGTON LAKE (USC00044176). 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 Huntington Lake; 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 Huntington Lake 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.