Kyle, SD 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 Kyle's primary NOAA station, KYLE 2 E.
The climate verdict for Kyle
Kyle, South Dakota has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 47°F. Its climate comfort score of 64/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 49% of station-mapped location scores.
- 47°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 64/100
- comfort score, above 49% of station-mapped location scores
- 21.6"
- annual precipitation
- 143 days
- frost-free growing season
Kyle: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00394630 · Kyle, SD 47°F mean · 21.6" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-WIDE · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 47°F
- RANK-COOL #1,921
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Toledo
- PRCP-DRY 21.6"
- SWING-WIDE 49°F
- COMF-MID 64/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,117 HDD
- STN-1 USC00394630
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Toledo, IA (+ 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 SD station list.
- Kyle (this station) 47°F
- Cold Jefferson Wwtp, WI 47°F
- Hot Newcastle, WY 47°F
- Near Toledo, IA 47°F
- Near Monroe Wwtp, WI 47°F
Climate Living Index · Kyle
Kyle: 30/100 · grade F
Kyle publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Kyle, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 64/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 21.6 in · 13.4 from 35 in | 53/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 47.3°F · 20.2° from 67.5°F | 29/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 143 days/year | 20/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 189 calendar days | 20/100 · F |
Kyle · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Kyle is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 23.8°F and warmest-month mean 73.2°F place this station in continental, no dry season, hot summer climates (Dfa). Class Dfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 73.2°F
- Coldest month
- 23.8°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 Kyle sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Kyle's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 72%
- Among 6,861 stations, Kyle sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 70%
- Kyle's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 79%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Kyle is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Kyle compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Kyle's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
64 49th percentile score exceeds 49% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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 | 37°F (3°C) | 11°F (-12°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 0.7" | 30.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 39°F (4°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 0.6" | 26.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 50°F (10°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 1.3" | 27.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 59°F (15°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 2.4" | 17.9 | 0.0 |
| May | 69°F (21°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 3.6" | 5.0 | 0.7 |
| June | 80°F (26°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 3.5" | 0.1 | 5.2 |
| July | 88°F (31°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 2.7" | 0.0 | 14.0 |
| August | 88°F (31°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 2.5" | 0.1 | 10.4 |
| September | 79°F (26°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 1.5" | 1.9 | 6.5 |
| October | 64°F (18°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 1.7" | 16.7 | 0.4 |
| November | 49°F (10°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 0.7" | 25.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 38°F (3°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 0.5" | 30.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 90°F around July 28, short of 90°F on every date, while 189 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 10°F near January 3.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 23, then returns to freezing around October 18, 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.
The widest day
September 3 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 33°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Kyle.
Where Kyle Stands Nationally
Freezing is routine here by normals standards — the normal low reaches 32°F or colder on about 189 nights a year, more than most ranked stations.
Daily temperature swings run wider than most of the country, peaking near 33°F between the normal high and low.
Kyle earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Kyle runs a summer-peaked wet season
40% of Kyle'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 3.6", on a wide 49.4°F gap between its warmest and coldest month. 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 45% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: December at 0.5".
- Winter share: 8% 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 11
50% probability date
Growing Season
143 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,117
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
706
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside SD closest to Kyle 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).
- Alton, UT 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Atkinson, NE 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Charlotte, MI 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Emmetsburg, IA 47°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (21.6" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Mertzon, TX 21.6" · 0.0" off
- Kaltag, AK 21.5" · 0.0" off
- Soldotna, AK 21.6" · 0.0" off
- Placerville, CO 21.5" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Kyle's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Kyle's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,117 annual heating degree days against 706 for cooling. Its 49.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 143 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 January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Kyle's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 49.4°F. The annual average is 47°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Kyle's 21.6 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Kyle'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 Kyle, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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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 Kyle's primary station: KYLE 2 E (USC00394630). 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 4634460), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Kyle: 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 Kyle 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.