Las Vegas Air Terminal, NV Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Las Vegas Air Terminal's primary NOAA station, LAS VEGAS AIR TERMINAL.
The climate verdict for Las Vegas Air Terminal
Dryness leads the climate profile for Las Vegas Air Terminal, Nevada, with 4.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 69°F. It scores 76/100 for climate comfort (good), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 69% of them.
- 69°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 76/100
- comfort score, above 69% of station-mapped location scores
- 4.0"
- precipitation, annual total
- 320 days
- frost-free growing season
Las Vegas Air Terminal: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00053123 · Las Vegas Air Terminal, NV 69°F mean · 4.0" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 69°F
- RANK-WARM #6,449
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Andalusia Opp
- PRCP-ARID 4.0"
- SWING-MID 45°F
- COMF-TOP 76/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USW00053123
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Andalusia Opp, AL (+ 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.
- Las Vegas Air T… (this station) 69°F
- Hot Columbus, TX 69°F
- Near Andalusia Opp, AL 69°F
- Near Bay City Wtr Wks, TX 69°F
- Near Bellville, TX 69°F
Climate Living Index · Las Vegas Air Terminal
Las Vegas Air Terminal: 65/100 · grade C
Las Vegas Air Terminal publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Las Vegas Air Terminal, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 76/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 320 days/year | 100/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 68.8°F · 1.3° from 67.5°F | 95/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 127 calendar days | 60/100 · C |
| Precipitation balance | 4.0 in · 31.0 from 35 in | 0/100 · F |
Las Vegas Air Terminal · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Las Vegas Air Terminal's normals sit in a dry climate class: BWh
Annual precipitation falls well below the aridity threshold for this temperature regime, so the normals classify as hot desert (BWh). Class BWh is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically hot desert.
- Köppen code
- BWh
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 91.8°F
- Coldest month
- 47.2°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 · balanced station
Where Las Vegas Air Terminal sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Las Vegas Air Terminal's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 6% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Las Vegas Air Terminal sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 100%
- Las Vegas Air Terminal's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 56th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Las Vegas Air Terminal compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Las Vegas Air Terminal's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
76 Top 31% score exceeds 69% 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%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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 | 58°F (14°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 0.7" | 3.4 | 0.0 |
| February | 62°F (17°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 0.8" | 1.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 71°F (21°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 0.5" | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| April | 78°F (26°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.2" | 0.0 | 3.4 |
| May | 88°F (31°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 15.7 |
| June | 99°F (37°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 86°F (30°C) | 0.0" | 0.0 | 27.3 |
| July | 104°F (40°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 92°F (33°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 30.8 |
| August | 102°F (39°C) | 78°F (25°C) | 90°F (32°C) | 0.2" | 0.0 | 30.3 |
| September | 94°F (35°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 82°F (28°C) | 0.2" | 0.0 | 23.9 |
| October | 81°F (27°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 0.3" | 0.0 | 4.4 |
| November | 67°F (19°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 0.3" | 0.8 | 0.0 |
| December | 56°F (13°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 0.4" | 5.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Las Vegas Air Terminal runs from a mild 37°F around December 19 to 104°F at the peak near July 17, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from May 22 through September 25, covering 127 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 14 to November 9.
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.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 37°F around December 19.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is February 21, when 13% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 13 at 1%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 23 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 11 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 25°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Las Vegas Air Terminal.
Where Las Vegas Air Terminal Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 127 days a year the normal daily high itself reaches 90°F — a count fewer than one station in ten exceeds.
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 4 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Las Vegas Air Terminal earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
3.1 days with precipitation
3.7 days with precipitation
2.2 days with precipitation
1.5 days with precipitation
1.0 days with precipitation
0.2 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
1.5 days with precipitation
1.3 days with precipitation
2.1 days with precipitation
1.3 days with precipitation
3.0 days with precipitation
Las Vegas Air Terminal's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 48% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 9%. 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 44.6°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 0.8"
- Driest month
- June, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- February, January, March (50% 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.
Las Vegas Air Terminal is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 23 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 6% of the calendar, and they carry 4.0" 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 February at about 4 wet days; the driest is June at about 0.
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
December 10
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
January 24
50% probability date
Growing Season
320 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
1,992
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
3,407
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Las Vegas Air Terminal 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 (69°F here).
- Bellville, TX 69°F · 0.0°F off
- Columbus, TX 69°F · 0.0°F off
- Franklin, LA 69°F · 0.0°F off
- Gonzales, TX 69°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (4.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Yuma, AZ 4.0" · 0.0" off
- Ehrenberg, AZ 4.0" · 0.1" off
- Twentynine Palms, CA 3.9" · 0.1" off
- Lake Havasu City, AZ 4.2" · 0.2" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Las Vegas Air Terminal's limited precipitation lands
mixed demand · dry · mid swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 4.0 inches annually, within PlainClimate's dry band. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The monthly distribution matters because the total alone does not reveal the timing.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Las Vegas Air Terminal's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 44.6°F. The annual average is 69°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Las Vegas Air Terminal's normal, at 1,992 and 3,407 degree days respectively. Neither total exceeds the other by more than two to one, so the record is better read as a mixed-demand calendar than as heating-led or cooling-led.
Las Vegas Air Terminal has a long frost-free window of roughly 320 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
Las Vegas Air Terminal wettest normal
February
February concentrates the scarce annual total (4.0 inches).
Las Vegas Air Terminal driest normal
June
June 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 Las Vegas Air Terminal's primary station: LAS VEGAS AIR TERMINAL (USW00053123). 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 Las Vegas Air Terminal; 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 Las Vegas Air Terminal 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.