Kanosh, 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 Kanosh's primary NOAA station, KANOSH.
The climate verdict for Kanosh
Dryness leads the climate profile for Kanosh, Utah, with 15.5 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 54°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.
- 54°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 15.5"
- annual precipitation · 80" snow
- 172 days
- frost-free growing season
Kanosh: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00424527 · Kanosh, UT 54°F mean · 15.5" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 54°F
- RANK-MID #3,842
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Carrollton
- PRCP-DRY 15.5"
- SWING-WIDE 48°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,339 HDD
- STN-1 USC00424527
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Carrollton, MO (+ 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.
- Kanosh (this station) 54°F
- Cold Higginsville, MO 54°F
- Hot Carrollton, MO 54°F
- Near Bonner Springs, KS 54°F
- Near Canyonlands-the…, UT 54°F
Climate Living Index · Kanosh
Kanosh: 37/100 · grade F
Kanosh publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Kanosh, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 53.7°F · 13.8° from 67.5°F | 55/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 172 days/year | 43/100 · D |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 170 calendar days | 32/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 15.5 in · 19.5 from 35 in | 30/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 79.7 inches/year | 6/100 · F |
Kanosh · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Kanosh is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 31.0°F and warmest-month mean 78.8°F place this station in continental, no dry season, hot summer climates (Dfa). Class Dfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 78.8°F
- Coldest month
- 31.0°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 Kanosh sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Kanosh's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 56th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 81%
- Kanosh's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 72%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Kanosh is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Kanosh compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Kanosh'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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 41°F (5°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 1.4" | 15.5" | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 47°F (8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 1.3" | 12.8" | 23.7 | 0.0 |
| March | 56°F (13°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 1.6" | 11.5" | 17.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 64°F (18°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 1.8" | 7.6" | 11.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 74°F (23°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 1.6" | 0.2" | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| June | 85°F (30°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 11.8 |
| July | 92°F (34°C) | 65°F (19°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 23.4 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 21.2 |
| September | 82°F (28°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 0.6 | 4.5 |
| October | 68°F (20°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 1.5" | 3.2" | 7.2 | 0.3 |
| November | 53°F (11°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 1.6" | 9.6" | 21.8 | 0.0 |
| December | 41°F (5°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 1.5" | 19.3" | 28.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Kanosh works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 93°F by July 22 and hold at or above 90°F on 48 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 122 dates, bottoming at 20°F around December 21.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 2 through August 18, covering 48 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 6 to October 11.
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 10, then returns to freezing around November 10, covering 122 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 April 14, when 27% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 23 at 12%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 77 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 18 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 29°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Kanosh.
Where Kanosh Stands Nationally
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 16 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Kanosh earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 15.5"
7.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 12.8"
6.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.5"
7.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.6"
8.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
6.7 days with precipitation
3.7 days with precipitation
5.3 days with precipitation
6.8 days with precipitation
5.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.2"
5.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 9.6"
5.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 19.3"
7.5 days with precipitation
Kanosh spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 15% of the annual total and December through February 27%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Kanosh has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 47.8°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: April averages 1.8" and June 0.6". The three wettest months together take 32% 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 Kanosh's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 76 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 15.5" 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 Kanosh
Kanosh averages 79.7 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 25 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: 79.7 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 25 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 51% 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
October 19
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 30
50% probability date
Growing Season
172 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,339
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,233
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside UT closest to Kanosh 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 (54°F here).
- Beaverton, OR 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Caliente, NV 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Carrollton, MO 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Centralia, KS 54°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (15.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Augusta, MT 15.5" · 0.0" off
- Fort Davis, TX 15.5" · 0.0" off
- Denio, NV 15.5" · 0.0" off
- Sidney, MT 15.5" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Kanosh
heating led · dry · mid swing
Kanosh's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,339 annual heating degree days against 1,233 for cooling. Its 47.8°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Kanosh's frost-free season lasts about 172 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Kanosh coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 31°F (-1°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Kanosh typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Kanosh snow peak
December
Kanosh averages 79.7 inches of snow a year, with December 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 Kanosh's primary station: KANOSH (USC00424527). 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 an incorporated place (GEOID 4940250). Match rule for Kanosh: 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 Kanosh 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.