Kellogg, ID 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 Kellogg's primary NOAA station, KELLOGG.
The climate verdict for Kellogg
Kellogg, Idaho has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 47°F. At 54/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 47°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 54/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 33.9"
- annual precipitation · 52" snow
- 135 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Kellogg: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00104831 · Kellogg, ID 47°F mean · 33.9" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 47°F
- RANK-COOL #1,784
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Garden Valley
- PRCP-MID 33.9"
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-LOW 54/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,932 HDD
- STN-1 USC00104831
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Garden Valley, ID (+ 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 ID station list.
- Kellogg (this station) 47°F
- Cold Ebensburg Sewag…, PA 47°F
- Hot Troy, MT 47°F
- Near Garden Valley, ID 47°F
- Near Holter Dam, MT 47°F
Climate Living Index · Kellogg
Kellogg: 35/100 · grade F
Kellogg publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Kellogg, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 54/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 33.9 in · 1.1 from 35 in | 94/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 46.7°F · 20.8° from 67.5°F | 26/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 182 calendar days | 24/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 52.4 inches/year | 20/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 135 days/year | 15/100 · F |
Kellogg · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Kellogg is a continental Köppen climate: Dsb
Coldest-month mean 29.0°F and warmest-month mean 67.7°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Dsb). Class Dsb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 67.7°F
- Coldest month
- 29.0°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 Kellogg sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Kellogg's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 74%
- Among 6,861 stations, Kellogg sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 46th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 70%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Kellogg is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Kellogg compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Kellogg's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
54 31st percentile score exceeds 31% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Kellogg's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 90 complete annual observations from 1906 to 2024, KELLOGG warmed at a fitted rate of 0.06°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Kellogg primary station fitted change +0.06 °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 | 37°F (3°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 29°F (-1°C) | 4.3" | 15.1" | 27.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 42°F (5°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 3.1" | 12.0" | 23.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 50°F (10°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 38°F (4°C) | 3.7" | 6.4" | 22.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 58°F (14°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 2.9" | 0.7" | 11.1 | 0.0 |
| May | 69°F (20°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 2.9" | 0.0" | 2.7 | 0.5 |
| June | 75°F (24°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 2.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.9 |
| July | 85°F (29°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 9.3 |
| August | 84°F (29°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 8.3 |
| September | 73°F (23°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 1.3" | 0.0" | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| October | 58°F (14°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 3.1" | 0.0" | 11.9 | 0.0 |
| November | 44°F (7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 4.5" | 4.4" | 20.2 | 0.0 |
| December | 36°F (2°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 3.5" | 13.8" | 27.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 88°F around July 28, short of 90°F on every date, while 182 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 21°F near December 25.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 15, then returns to freezing around October 17, covering 182 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 January 1, when 60% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 5 at 15%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 159 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 31 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 Kellogg.
Where Kellogg Stands Nationally
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.
Freezing is routine here by normals standards — the normal low reaches 32°F or colder on about 182 nights a year, more than most ranked stations.
Kellogg 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: 15.1"
18.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 12.0"
15.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.4"
17.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.7"
16.4 days with precipitation
13.9 days with precipitation
11.7 days with precipitation
5.8 days with precipitation
5.0 days with precipitation
6.9 days with precipitation
12.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.4"
17.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 13.8"
18.1 days with precipitation
Kellogg spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 14% of the annual total and December through February 32%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Kellogg has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 38.7°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: November averages 4.5" and August 0.8". 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 Kellogg's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 159 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 33.9" between them, or roughly 0.21 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 Kellogg
Kellogg averages 52.4 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 32 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: 52.4 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 32 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 15% 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 26
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 14
50% probability date
Growing Season
135 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,932
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
293
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside ID closest to Kellogg 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 (47°F here).
- Allison, IA 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Cherokee, IA 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Forsyth, MT 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Fort Duchesne, UT 47°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (33.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Clam Lake, WI 33.9" · 0.0" off
- Massena, NY 33.9" · 0.0" off
- Mankato, MN 33.9" · 0.0" off
- Port Washington, WI 33.9" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Kellogg
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Kellogg's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,932 annual heating degree days against 293 for cooling. Its 38.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 135 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. Kellogg coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 29°F (-2°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Kellogg typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Kellogg snow peak
January
Kellogg averages 52.4 inches of snow a year, with January 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 Kellogg's primary station: KELLOGG (USC00104831). 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 1642580). Match rule for Kellogg: 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 Kellogg 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.