Ibapah, 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 Ibapah's primary NOAA station, IBAPAH.
The climate verdict for Ibapah
Dryness leads the climate profile for Ibapah, Utah, with 10.5 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 48°F. At 49/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 18% of scores.
- 48°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 10.5"
- annual precipitation · 30" snow
- 86 days
- frost-free growing season
Ibapah: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00424174 · Ibapah, UT 48°F mean · 10.5" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 48°F
- RANK-COOL #2,264
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Waterdale
- PRCP-ARID 10.5"
- SWING-MID 43°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,501 HDD
- STN-1 USC00424174
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Waterdale, CO ( -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 UT station list.
- Ibapah (this station) 48°F
- Cold Rosalia, WA 48°F
- Hot Murphy, ID 48°F
- Near Waterdale, CO 48°F
- Near Elizabeth, CO 48°F
Climate Living Index · Ibapah
Ibapah: 17/100 · grade F
Ibapah publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Ibapah, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 29.9 inches/year | 38/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 48.3°F · 19.2° from 67.5°F | 33/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 10.5 in · 24.5 from 35 in | 14/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 86 days/year | 0/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 276 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
Ibapah · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Ibapah'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
- 71.0°F
- Coldest month
- 28.4°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 Ibapah sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Ibapah's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 33rd percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 93%
- Ibapah's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 47th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Ibapah compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Ibapah's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
49 18th percentile score exceeds 18% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Above this entry.
- 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
Ibapah's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 45 complete annual observations from 1903 to 2025, IBAPAH warmed at a fitted rate of 0.16°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Ibapah primary station fitted change +0.16 °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 | 45°F (7°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 0.8" | 6.1" | 30.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 49°F (10°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 0.9" | 6.7" | 27.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 58°F (15°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 1.1" | 4.2" | 28.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 64°F (18°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 1.4" | 1.8" | 23.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 73°F (23°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 1.4" | 0.0" | 10.8 | 1.3 |
| June | 85°F (29°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 2.5 | 11.3 |
| July | 94°F (35°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 25.2 |
| August | 93°F (34°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.7 | 25.3 |
| September | 83°F (28°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 8.6 | 7.3 |
| October | 69°F (21°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 0.7" | 0.6" | 23.9 | 0.3 |
| November | 55°F (13°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 0.5" | 3.8" | 28.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 45°F (7°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 0.6" | 6.7" | 30.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Ibapah works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 96°F by July 23 and hold at or above 90°F on 61 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 215 dates, bottoming at 11°F around December 25.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 29 through August 28, covering 61 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 8 to October 13.
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 May 3, then returns to freezing around October 2, covering 215 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 1, when 23% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is October 16 at 10%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 52 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 23 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 48°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Ibapah.
Where Ibapah Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 215 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 11 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Ibapah 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: 6.1"
3.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.7"
4.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.2"
4.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.8"
6.3 days with precipitation
7.0 days with precipitation
3.6 days with precipitation
4.4 days with precipitation
4.5 days with precipitation
3.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
3.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.8"
3.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.7"
3.5 days with precipitation
Ibapah spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 23% of the annual total and December through February 22%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Ibapah has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 42.6°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: April averages 1.4" and November 0.5". The three wettest months together take 37% 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 Ibapah's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 52 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 10.5" 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.
Winter brings real snow to Ibapah
Ibapah averages 29.9 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 8 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: 29.9 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 8 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 28% 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
September 8
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 14
50% probability date
Growing Season
86 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,501
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
429
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside UT closest to Ibapah 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 (48°F here).
- Albin, WY 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Albion, NE 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Angola, IN 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Beverly, MA 48°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (10.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Richfield, ID 10.5" · 0.0" off
- Fort Hall, ID 10.5" · 0.0" off
- Townsend, MT 10.6" · 0.0" off
- Palisade, CO 10.5" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Ibapah
heating led · dry · mid swing
Ibapah's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,501 annual heating degree days against 429 for cooling. Its 42.6°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 86 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.
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1. Ibapah coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 28°F (-2°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Ibapah typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Ibapah snow peak
February
Ibapah averages 29.9 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 Ibapah's primary station: IBAPAH (USC00424174). 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 Ibapah; 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 Ibapah 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.