Lamoni Muni, IA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Lamoni Muni's primary NOAA station, LAMONI MUNI AP.
The climate verdict for Lamoni Muni
Lamoni Muni, Iowa has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 52°F. Its climate comfort score of 68/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 56% of station-mapped location scores.
- 52°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 68/100
- comfort score, above 56% of station-mapped location scores
- 37.4"
- annual precipitation
- 188 days
- frost-free growing season
Lamoni Muni: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00094991 · Lamoni Muni, IA 52°F mean · 37.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 52°F
- RANK-MID #3,225
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Gallatin
- PRCP-MID 37.4"
- SWING-WIDE 52°F
- COMF-MID 68/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,895 HDD
- STN-1 USW00094991
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Gallatin, MO (+ 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 IA station list.
- Lamoni (this station) 52°F
- Cold Prairie City, IL 52°F
- Hot Conception, MO 52°F
- Near Gallatin, MO 52°F
- Near Ragan, NE 52°F
Climate Living Index · Lamoni Muni
Lamoni Muni: 61/100 · grade C
Lamoni Muni publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Lamoni Muni, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 68/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 37.4 in · 2.4 from 35 in | 91/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 128 calendar days | 60/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 188 days/year | 56/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 51.6°F · 15.9° from 67.5°F | 47/100 · D |
Lamoni Muni · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Lamoni Muni is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 24.3°F and warmest-month mean 75.8°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
- 75.8°F
- Coldest month
- 24.3°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 · heating-led station
Where Lamoni Muni sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Lamoni Muni's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 47th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 52nd percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 85%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Lamoni Muni is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Lamoni Muni compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Lamoni Muni's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
68 Top 44% score exceeds 56% 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 | 33°F (1°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 1.0" | 29.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 38°F (3°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 1.4" | 24.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 51°F (10°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 2.2" | 18.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 63°F (17°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 4.3" | 5.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 72°F (22°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 5.1" | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| June | 82°F (28°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 4.8" | 0.0 | 3.1 |
| July | 85°F (30°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 4.1" | 0.0 | 9.0 |
| August | 84°F (29°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 4.4" | 0.0 | 5.8 |
| September | 77°F (25°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 3.7" | 0.0 | 2.2 |
| October | 64°F (18°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 2.8" | 4.1 | 0.0 |
| November | 50°F (10°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 2.1" | 16.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 38°F (3°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 29°F (-1°C) | 1.5" | 27.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 86°F around July 20, short of 90°F on every date, while 128 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 15°F near January 19.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 19, then returns to freezing around November 13, covering 128 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 25, when 43% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 8 at 21%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 109 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 23 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 22°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Lamoni Muni.
Where Lamoni Muni Stands Nationally
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 22°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Lamoni Muni 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
6.2 days with precipitation
6.9 days with precipitation
9.5 days with precipitation
11.3 days with precipitation
13.3 days with precipitation
11.7 days with precipitation
8.6 days with precipitation
9.8 days with precipitation
8.6 days with precipitation
9.3 days with precipitation
7.0 days with precipitation
6.6 days with precipitation
Lamoni Muni runs a summer-peaked wet season
36% of Lamoni Muni'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 5.1", on a wide 51.5°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, August, taking 38% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: January at 1.0".
- Winter share: 10% 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 Lamoni Muni's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 109 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 37.4" between them, or roughly 0.34 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
October 21
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 16
50% probability date
Growing Season
188 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,895
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,038
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside IA closest to Lamoni Muni 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 (52°F here).
- Amity, MO 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Carmel, IN 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Eau Claire, MI 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Fairbury, NE 52°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (37.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Bryan, OH 37.4" · 0.0" off
- Holton, KS 37.4" · 0.0" off
- Grand Meadow, MN 37.4" · 0.0" off
- Ironwood, MI 37.4" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Lamoni Muni's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Lamoni Muni's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,895 annual heating degree days against 1,038 for cooling. Its 51.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Lamoni Muni's frost-free season lasts about 188 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Lamoni Muni's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 51.5°F. The annual average is 52°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Lamoni Muni's 37.4 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 Lamoni Muni'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 Lamoni Muni, 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 Lamoni Muni's primary station: LAMONI MUNI AP (USW00094991). 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 Lamoni Muni; 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 Lamoni Muni 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.