Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada, NV 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 Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada's primary NOAA station, KINGS RVR VLY - OROVADA 26NW.
The climate verdict for Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada
Dryness leads the climate profile for Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada, Nevada, with 8.9 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 48°F. At 40/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 6% of scores.
- 48°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 40/100
- comfort score, above 6% of station-mapped location scores
- 8.9"
- yearly precipitation total
- 118 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00264236 · Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada, NV 48°F mean · 8.9" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 48°F
- RANK-COOL #2,196
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Slippery Rock
- PRCP-ARID 8.9"
- SWING-MID 44°F
- COMF-LOW 40/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,599 HDD
- STN-1 USC00264236
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Slippery Rock, PA (+ 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 NV station list.
- Kings Rvr Vly -… (this station) 48°F
- Cold Beowawe 49s - U…, NV 48°F
- Hot La Sal, UT 48°F
- Near Slippery Rock, PA 48°F
- Near Mahanoy City, PA 48°F
Climate Living Index · Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada
Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada: 16/100 · grade F
Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 40/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 48.1°F · 19.4° from 67.5°F | 32/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 8.9 in · 26.1 from 35 in | 9/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 213 calendar days | 8/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 118 days/year | 6/100 · F |
Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada'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
- 71.2°F
- Coldest month
- 27.1°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 Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 32nd percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 95%
- Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada'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 Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
40 6th percentile score exceeds 6% 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 | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38°F (3°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 1.4" | 29.6 | 0.0 |
| February | 44°F (7°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 0.9" | 25.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 54°F (12°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 0.8" | 23.8 | 0.0 |
| April | 61°F (16°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 0.9" | 17.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 71°F (21°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 1.1" | 6.5 | 1.3 |
| June | 80°F (27°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.6" | 1.5 | 7.7 |
| July | 90°F (32°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 0.3" | 0.0 | 22.1 |
| August | 88°F (31°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 0.1" | 0.2 | 18.5 |
| September | 79°F (26°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 0.3" | 2.7 | 4.3 |
| October | 65°F (18°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 0.7" | 17.7 | 0.2 |
| November | 49°F (10°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 0.6" | 25.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 37°F (3°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 1.4" | 29.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 91°F by July 25 and hold at or above 90°F on 24 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 189 dates, bottoming at 16°F around January 1.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 15 through August 7, covering 24 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 14 to October 5.
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 21, then returns to freezing around October 16, covering 189 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 20, when 20% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 19 at 4%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 49 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 2 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 39°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada.
Where Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 9 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 39°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
6.2 days with precipitation
5.4 days with precipitation
5.1 days with precipitation
5.1 days with precipitation
5.5 days with precipitation
2.8 days with precipitation
1.8 days with precipitation
1.0 days with precipitation
2.1 days with precipitation
3.2 days with precipitation
4.5 days with precipitation
6.1 days with precipitation
Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 42% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 10%. 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 44.1°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- January, 1.4"
- Driest month
- August, 0.1"
- Wettest three months
- January, December, May (44% 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.
Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 49 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 13% of the calendar, and they carry 9.0" between them. At roughly 0.18 inches on an average wet day, this is not the damp drizzle of a marine climate; it is an arid record in which precipitation is both uncommon and light when it appears.
The wettest month by count is January at about 6 wet days; the driest is August at about 1.
A low per-event average in a dry record is a statement about typical days only. Arid regions can still take a large share of a year's total from a single convective storm, which a normal cannot show.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, not the extremes within it.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 23
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 28
50% probability date
Growing Season
118 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,599
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
447
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada 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 (48°F here).
- Boone, IA 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Castleford, ID 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Concord, NE 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Crofton, NE 48°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (8.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Hamer, ID 8.9" · 0.0" off
- Presidio, TX 8.9" · 0.0" off
- Ellensburg, WA 9.0" · 0.0" off
- San Luis, CO 9.0" · 0.1" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada's limited precipitation lands
heating led · dry · mid swing
Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,599 annual heating degree days against 447 for cooling. Its 44.1°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 118 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 Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 44.1°F. The annual average is 48°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 8.9 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada wettest normal
January
January concentrates the scarce annual total (8.9 inches).
Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada 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 Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada's primary station: KINGS RVR VLY - OROVADA 26NW (USC00264236). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Kings Rvr Vly - Orovada 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.