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Keams Canyon, AZ Climate: Temperature by Month

Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score

30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Keams Canyon's primary NOAA station, KEAMS CANYON.

The climate verdict for Keams Canyon

Keams Canyon, Arizona has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 51°F. July is the warmest month at 73°F and December the coldest at 30°F.

51°F
annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
147 days
growing season, frost-free days

Keams Canyon: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.

Normals record plate

Sheet USC00024586 · Keams Canyon, AZ 51°F mean

TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART

Nearest mean-temperature peer: Bridgehampton, NY (+ 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 AZ station list.

Climate Living Index · Keams Canyon

Keams Canyon: 32/100 · grade F

Keams Canyon publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.

F
32/100Climate Living Index

PlainClimate-derived for Keams Canyon, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.

Keams Canyon Living Index dimension scores
DimensionStation valueScore
Annual temperature balance 50.8°F · 16.7° from 67.5°F 44/100 · D
Normal heat + freeze calendar 181 calendar days 24/100 · F
Frost-free season 147 days/year 23/100 · F

Keams Canyon · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .

National standing · heating-led station

Where Keams Canyon sits across the climate record

Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Keams Canyon are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.

Annual temperature
44th percentile warmth
Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
Seasonal temperature swing
48th percentile swing
Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.

Monthly Temperatures

Average daily high and low temperatures by month

Month Avg High Avg Low Mean
January 45°F (7°C) 18°F (-8°C) 31°F (0°C)
February 49°F (10°C) 22°F (-6°C) 36°F (2°C)
March 58°F (14°C) 27°F (-3°C) 42°F (6°C)
April 66°F (19°C) 32°F (0°C) 49°F (9°C)
May 75°F (24°C) 39°F (4°C) 57°F (14°C)
June 86°F (30°C) 47°F (8°C) 66°F (19°C)
July 89°F (32°C) 57°F (14°C) 73°F (23°C)
August 86°F (30°C) 55°F (13°C) 70°F (21°C)
September 79°F (26°C) 47°F (8°C) 63°F (17°C)
October 68°F (20°C) 35°F (1°C) 51°F (11°C)
November 56°F (13°C) 25°F (-4°C) 40°F (5°C)
December 44°F (7°C) 17°F (-8°C) 30°F (-1°C)

The year, day by day

Keams Canyon works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 90°F by July 9 and hold at or above 90°F on 4 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 177 dates, bottoming at 16°F around December 22.

Normal daily high and low temperature for Keams Canyon, January through December Peaks 90°F around July 9. Bottoms 16°F around December 22. 5 25 45 65 85 freezing JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Normal daily high and low across the calendar year. NOAA 1991–2020 daily normals, KEAMS CANYON.

When the heat sits

Normal highs reach 90°F from July 9 through July 12, covering 4 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 4 to October 10.

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 16, then returns to freezing around October 23, covering 177 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 11 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 40°F between the normal high and the normal low.

Look up any date

Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Keams Canyon.

Where Keams Canyon Stands Nationally

Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 40°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.

Keams Canyon 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

January N/A
February N/A
March N/A
April N/A
May N/A
June N/A
July N/A
August N/A
September N/A
October N/A
November N/A
December N/A

Frost Dates & Growing Season

First Fall Freeze

October 10

50% probability date

Last Spring Freeze

May 16

50% probability date

Growing Season

147 days

Heating & Cooling Degree Days

Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling

Heating Degree Days

5,722

Higher = more heating needed

Cooling Degree Days

556

Higher = more cooling needed

Warmest Month

July

Coldest Month

December

Nationwide similar cities

Other rankable U.S. places outside AZ closest to Keams Canyon 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 (51°F here).

Arizona climate overview →

Data-derived climate profile

How Keams Canyon's climate pattern fits together

heating led · mid swing

Keams Canyon's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,722 annual heating degree days against 556 for cooling. Its 42.9°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.

Only about 147 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 Keams Canyon's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 42.9°F. The annual average is 51°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.

A moisture-range label is withheld because Keams Canyon's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.

These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Keams Canyon'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 Keams Canyon, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.

Questions about Keams Canyon's climate

How many days above 90°F does Keams Canyon get?
Keams Canyon averages about 31 days a year at or above 90°F, concentrated in July and the months either side of it. That is a count of days reaching the threshold, not a measure of how far above it they go.
How much energy does heating and cooling require in Keams Canyon?
Keams Canyon has 5,722 heating degree days and 556 cooling degree days annually, a heating-dominated climate. Degree-day definitions: reading weather data.

Data Sources

Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Keams Canyon's primary station: KEAMS CANYON (USC00024586). 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 0437130), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Keams Canyon: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainClimate

On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Keams Canyon 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.