Kimball, NE Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Kimball's primary NOAA station, KIMBALL 2NE.
The climate verdict for Kimball
Dryness leads the climate profile for Kimball, Nebraska, with 15.8 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 47°F. At 49/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 18% of scores.
- 47°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 15.8"
- annual precipitation · 30" snow
- 134 days
- frost-free growing season
Kimball: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00254440 · Kimball, NE 47°F mean · 15.8" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 47°F
- RANK-COOL #1,784
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Port Washington
- PRCP-DRY 15.8"
- SWING-MID 44°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,108 HDD
- STN-1 USC00254440
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Port Washington, WI (+ 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 NE station list.
- Kimball (this station) 47°F
- Cold Rome Griffiss A…, NY 47°F
- Hot Highwood, MT 47°F
- Near Port Washington, WI 47°F
- Near Utica Oneida Co…, NY 47°F
Climate Living Index · Kimball
Kimball: 24/100 · grade F
Kimball publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Kimball, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 29.8 inches/year | 39/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 15.8 in · 19.2 from 35 in | 31/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 46.7°F · 20.8° from 67.5°F | 26/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 134 days/year | 15/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 199 calendar days | 14/100 · F |
Kimball · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Kimball'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
- 70.8°F
- Coldest month
- 26.7°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 Kimball sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Kimball'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, Kimball sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 80%
- Kimball's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 54th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Kimball compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Kimball's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
49 18th percentile score exceeds 18% 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
Kimball's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 96 complete annual observations from 1890 to 2016, KIMBALL 2NE warmed at a fitted rate of 0.13°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Kimball primary station fitted change +0.13 °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 | 40°F (5°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 0.3" | 3.5" | 30.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 42°F (6°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 0.4" | 4.6" | 27.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 52°F (11°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 0.9" | 4.8" | 27.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 58°F (14°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 1.7" | 3.9" | 18.6 | 0.0 |
| May | 67°F (20°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 2.8" | 1.0" | 4.7 | 0.8 |
| June | 80°F (26°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 2.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 5.2 |
| July | 86°F (30°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 2.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 14.7 |
| August | 84°F (29°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 1.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 10.8 |
| September | 77°F (25°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 1.4" | 0.3" | 1.9 | 4.3 |
| October | 62°F (17°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 1.2" | 1.8" | 15.1 | 0.2 |
| November | 50°F (10°C) | 20°F (-6°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 0.5" | 4.1" | 27.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 41°F (5°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 0.5" | 5.8" | 30.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 87°F around July 18, short of 90°F on every date, while 199 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 12°F near December 19.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 27, then returns to freezing around October 12, covering 199 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 May 27, when 36% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 13 at 10%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 76 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 9 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 34°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Kimball.
Where Kimball Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 199 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 16 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Kimball 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: 3.5"
3.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.6"
4.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.8"
4.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.9"
7.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.0"
10.7 days with precipitation
9.0 days with precipitation
9.0 days with precipitation
8.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
6.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.8"
5.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.1"
3.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.8"
3.7 days with precipitation
Kimball runs a summer-peaked wet season
39% of Kimball's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is May at 2.8", on a 44.1°F seasonal spread. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: May, June, July, taking 46% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: January at 0.3".
- Winter share: 7% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
How Kimball's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 76 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 15.8" 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 Kimball
Kimball averages 29.8 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 18 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: 29.8 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 18 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 19% 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 15
50% probability date
Growing Season
134 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,108
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
453
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NE closest to Kimball 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
- American Falls, ID 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Cherokee, IA 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Forsyth, MT 47°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (15.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Two Rivers, AK 15.8" · 0.0" off
- Camp Crook, SD 15.8" · 0.0" off
- Denton, MT 15.8" · 0.0" off
- Bagdad, AZ 15.9" · 0.1" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Kimball
heating led · dry · mid swing
Kimball's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,108 annual heating degree days against 453 for cooling. Its 44.1°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 134 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. Kimball coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 27°F (-3°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Kimball typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Kimball snow peak
December
Kimball averages 29.8 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 Kimball's primary station: KIMBALL 2NE (USC00254440). 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 3125475). Match rule for Kimball: 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 Kimball 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.