Kooskia, ID Climate: Temperature by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Kooskia's primary NOAA station, KOOSKIA 5 SSE.
The climate verdict for Kooskia
Kooskia, Idaho has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 49°F. August is the warmest month at 70°F and December the coldest at 31°F.
- 49°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 164 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Kooskia: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00105013 · Kooskia, ID 49°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 49°F
- RANK-COOL #2,470
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Marysvale
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 6,176 HDD
- STN-1 USC00105013
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Marysvale, UT (+ 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 ID station list.
- Kooskia (this station) 49°F
- Hot Kent, OR 49°F
- Near Marysvale, UT 49°F
- Near Window Rock, AZ 49°F
- Near Kodachrome Basi…, UT 49°F
Climate Living Index · Kooskia
Kooskia: 37/100 · grade F
Kooskia publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Kooskia, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 162 calendar days | 38/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 49.2°F · 18.3° from 67.5°F | 37/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 164 days/year | 37/100 · F |
Kooskia · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Kooskia sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Kooskia are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- 36th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 32nd 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 | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38°F (3°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 31°F (0°C) | N/A | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 44°F (7°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 35°F (2°C) | N/A | 22.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 52°F (11°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | N/A | 19.2 | 0.0 |
| April | 59°F (15°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 47°F (8°C) | N/A | 8.6 | 0.0 |
| May | 68°F (20°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 56°F (13°C) | N/A | 2.1 | 0.2 |
| June | 74°F (23°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 61°F (16°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 1.3 |
| July | 86°F (30°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 70°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 10.0 |
| August | 89°F (32°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 70°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.2 | 14.6 |
| September | 77°F (25°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 61°F (16°C) | N/A | 0.9 | 2.6 |
| October | 62°F (17°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 50°F (10°C) | N/A | 8.4 | 0.0 |
| November | 47°F (8°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 38°F (3°C) | N/A | 20.2 | 0.0 |
| December | 38°F (3°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 31°F (0°C) | N/A | 28.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Kooskia works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 92°F by August 3 and hold at or above 90°F on 21 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 141 dates, bottoming at 24°F around December 23.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 26 through August 15, covering 21 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 21 to October 1.
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 March 21, then returns to freezing around November 2, covering 141 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
August 10 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 Kooskia.
Where Kooskia Stands Nationally
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.
Kooskia 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
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 11
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 30
50% probability date
Growing Season
164 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,176
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
452
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside ID closest to Kooskia 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 (49°F here).
- Battle Creek, MI 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Beaconsfield, IA 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Black Forest, CO 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Dansville, NY 49°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Kooskia's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Kooskia's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,176 annual heating degree days against 452 for cooling. Its 39.1°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Kooskia's frost-free season lasts about 164 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
August and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Kooskia's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 39.1°F. The annual average is 49°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Kooskia'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 Kooskia'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 Kooskia, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Kooskia's climate
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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 Kooskia's primary station: KOOSKIA 5 SSE (USC00105013). 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 1644110). Match rule for Kooskia: 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 Kooskia 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.