Imlay, 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 Imlay's primary NOAA station, IMLAY.
The climate verdict for Imlay
Dryness leads the climate profile for Imlay, Nevada, with 8.4 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 50°F. At 44/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 10% of scores.
- 50°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 8.4"
- annual precipitation · 12" snow
- 133 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Imlay: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00263957 · Imlay, NV 50°F mean · 8.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 50°F
- RANK-MID #2,813
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mansfield
- PRCP-ARID 8.4"
- SWING-WIDE 45°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,059 HDD
- STN-1 USC00263957
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Mansfield, OH (+ 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.
- Imlay (this station) 50°F
- Cold Jerome County, ID 50°F
- Hot Niles, MI 50°F
- Near Mansfield, OH 50°F
- Near Lock Haven Sewa…, PA 50°F
Climate Living Index · Imlay
Imlay: 24/100 · grade F
Imlay publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Imlay, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 11.6 inches/year | 61/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 50.3°F · 17.2° from 67.5°F | 42/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 133 days/year | 14/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 8.4 in · 26.6 from 35 in | 8/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 220 calendar days | 5/100 · F |
Imlay · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Imlay'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
- 74.8°F
- Coldest month
- 29.4°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 Imlay sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Imlay'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 96%
- Imlay's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 61st percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Imlay compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Imlay's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
44 10th percentile score exceeds 10% 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
Imlay's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 43 complete annual observations from 1918 to 2019, IMLAY changed little at a fitted rate of 0.01°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Imlay primary station fitted change -0.01 °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 | 42°F (5°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 0.9" | 2.9" | 28.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 48°F (9°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 0.8" | 1.2" | 24.6 | 0.0 |
| March | 56°F (13°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 1.2" | 1.8" | 22.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 62°F (16°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 1.0" | 0.8" | 13.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 71°F (22°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 56°F (14°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 2.7 | 0.8 |
| June | 82°F (28°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 8.1 |
| July | 92°F (33°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 23.1 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 20.6 |
| September | 81°F (27°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 1.6 | 5.6 |
| October | 67°F (19°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 14.5 | 0.1 |
| November | 52°F (11°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 0.7" | 0.8" | 24.8 | 0.0 |
| December | 41°F (5°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 29°F (-1°C) | 0.9" | 4.1" | 28.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Imlay works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 94°F by July 23 and hold at or above 90°F on 42 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 178 dates, bottoming at 17°F around December 17.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 7 through August 17, covering 42 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 13 to October 9.
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 April 12, then returns to freezing around October 18, covering 178 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 17, when 23% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 19 at 5%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 57 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 23 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 37°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Imlay.
Where Imlay Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 8 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 37°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Imlay 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: 2.9"
6.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.2"
6.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.8"
6.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.8"
6.5 days with precipitation
6.5 days with precipitation
3.0 days with precipitation
1.9 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
2.0 days with precipitation
3.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.8"
4.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.1"
6.6 days with precipitation
Imlay spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 11% of the annual total and December through February 32%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Imlay has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 45.4°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: March averages 1.2" and August 0.2". The three wettest months together take 38% 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.
Imlay is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 56 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 15% of the calendar, and they carry 8.4" between them. At roughly 0.15 inches on an average wet day, this is not the damp drizzle of a marine climate; it is an arid record in which precipitation is both uncommon and light when it appears.
The wettest month by count is January at about 7 wet days; the driest is August at about 2.
A low per-event average in a dry record is a statement about typical days only. Arid regions can still take a large share of a year's total from a single convective storm, which a normal cannot show.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, not the extremes within it.
Snow reaches Imlay, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 11.6 inches of snow a year here, most likely in December. 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 9 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
September 27
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 17
50% probability date
Growing Season
133 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,059
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
728
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Imlay 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).
- Bedford, IA 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Boulder, UT 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Central City, NE 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Chatham, MA 50°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (8.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Saguache, CO 8.4" · 0.0" off
- Torrey, UT 8.4" · 0.0" off
- Loa, UT 8.4" · 0.0" off
- Selah, WA 8.4" · 0.0" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Imlay's limited precipitation lands
heating led · dry · mid swing
Imlay's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,059 annual heating degree days against 728 for cooling. Its 45.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 133 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.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Imlay's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 45.4°F. The annual average is 50°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Imlay's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 8.4 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Annual snowfall totals 11.6 inches. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
Imlay wettest normal
March
March concentrates the scarce annual total (8.4 inches).
Imlay driest normal
August
August 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 Imlay's primary station: IMLAY (USC00263957). 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 3234700), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Imlay: 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 Imlay 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.