Kettleman City, CA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Kettleman City's primary NOAA station, KETTLEMAN CITY.
The climate verdict for Kettleman City
Dryness leads the climate profile for Kettleman City, California, with 7.5 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 64°F. Its climate comfort score of 73/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 66% of station-mapped location scores.
- 64°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 73/100
- comfort score, above 66% of station-mapped location scores
- 7.5"
- yearly precipitation total
- 283 days
- frost-free growing season
Kettleman City: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00044534 · Kettleman City, CA 64°F mean · 7.5" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 64°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,900
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Atlanta
- PRCP-ARID 7.5"
- SWING-MID 37°F
- COMF-MID 73/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00044534
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Atlanta, TX (+ 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 CA station list.
- Kettleman City (this station) 64°F
- Hot Delano, CA 64°F
- Near Atlanta, TX 64°F
- Near Cherry Point Mc…, NC 64°F
- Near Columbia, SC 64°F
Climate Living Index · Kettleman City
Kettleman City: 68/100 · grade C
Kettleman City publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Kettleman City, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 73/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 283 days/year | 98/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 64.3°F · 3.2° from 67.5°F | 90/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 108 calendar days | 72/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 7.5 in · 27.5 from 35 in | 6/100 · F |
Kettleman City · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Kettleman City'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
- 83.1°F
- Coldest month
- 46.3°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 · balanced station
Where Kettleman City sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Kettleman City's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 14% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Kettleman City sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 98%
- Kettleman City's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 78%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Kettleman City is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Kettleman City compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Kettleman City's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
73 Top 34% score exceeds 66% 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%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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 | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 57°F (14°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 1.4" | 8.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 63°F (17°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.5" | 4.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 70°F (21°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 56°F (14°C) | 1.5" | 1.4 | 0.1 |
| April | 76°F (24°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 0.6" | 0.0 | 2.4 |
| May | 84°F (29°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.4" | 0.0 | 8.7 |
| June | 92°F (34°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 0.0" | 0.0 | 21.7 |
| July | 99°F (37°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 83°F (28°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 30.1 |
| August | 98°F (36°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 82°F (28°C) | 0.0" | 0.0 | 29.6 |
| September | 92°F (33°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 76°F (25°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 20.8 |
| October | 81°F (27°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.2" | 0.1 | 4.5 |
| November | 67°F (20°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 0.6" | 1.8 | 0.1 |
| December | 58°F (14°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 1.2" | 12.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Kettleman City runs from a mild 35°F around December 23 to 99°F at the peak near July 19, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 8 through September 23, covering 108 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 20 to November 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.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 35°F around December 23.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is February 13, when 22% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 2 at 1%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 37 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 2 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 32°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Kettleman City.
Where Kettleman City Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 108 days a year the normal daily high itself reaches 90°F — a count fewer than one station in ten exceeds.
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 8 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Kettleman City earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
6.0 days with precipitation
6.0 days with precipitation
5.9 days with precipitation
3.7 days with precipitation
1.4 days with precipitation
0.5 days with precipitation
0.2 days with precipitation
0.3 days with precipitation
0.5 days with precipitation
1.3 days with precipitation
3.6 days with precipitation
6.6 days with precipitation
Kettleman City's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 55% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 3%. That is the cool-season-dominant pattern of the West Coast and the higher inland West, where storm tracks swing south in winter and summer turns dry; the thermometer meanwhile shows a 36.8°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 1.5"
- Driest month
- August, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- February, March, January (58% of the year)
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A cool-season label means the December-February share reaches 35%. Where snow falls, the monthly figures above report liquid-equivalent precipitation, so a wet winter month is not necessarily a rainy one.
How Kettleman City's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 36 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 7.5" 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 29
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
February 19
50% probability date
Growing Season
283 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,368
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
2,134
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Kettleman City 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 (64°F here).
- Atlanta, TX 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Columbia, SC 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Marshall, TX 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Northport, AL 64°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (7.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Quincy, WA 7.5" · 0.0" off
- Rock Springs, WY 7.5" · 0.0" off
- Sutcliffe, NV 7.4" · 0.1" off
- Bruneau, ID 7.4" · 0.1" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Kettleman City's limited precipitation lands
mixed demand · dry · mid swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 7.5 inches annually, within PlainClimate's dry band. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The monthly distribution matters because the total alone does not reveal the timing.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Kettleman City's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 36.8°F. The annual average is 64°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Kettleman City's normal, at 2,368 and 2,134 degree days respectively. Neither total exceeds the other by more than two to one, so the record is better read as a mixed-demand calendar than as heating-led or cooling-led.
Kettleman City has a long frost-free window of roughly 283 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
Kettleman City wettest normal
February
February concentrates the scarce annual total (7.5 inches).
Kettleman City 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 Kettleman City's primary station: KETTLEMAN CITY (USC00044534). 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 0638394), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Kettleman City: 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 Kettleman City 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.