Lava Beds Nat Mon, CA 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 Lava Beds Nat Mon's primary NOAA station, LAVA BEDS NAT MON.
The climate verdict for Lava Beds Nat Mon
Dryness leads the climate profile for Lava Beds Nat Mon, California, with 14.2 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 49°F. At 49/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 18% of scores.
- 49°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 14.2"
- annual precipitation · 43" snow
- 114 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Lava Beds Nat Mon: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00044838 · Lava Beds Nat Mon, CA 49°F mean · 14.2" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 49°F
- RANK-COOL #2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Odessa
- PRCP-DRY 14.2"
- SWING-MID 37°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,328 HDD
- STN-1 USC00044838
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Odessa, WA (+ 0.1 °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 CA station list.
- Lava Beds Nat M… (this station) 49°F
- Cold Riverside, OR 49°F
- Hot Coeur D'alene, ID 49°F
- Near Odessa, WA 49°F
- Near Fort Bidwell, CA 49°F
Climate Living Index · Lava Beds Nat Mon
Lava Beds Nat Mon: 26/100 · grade F
Lava Beds Nat Mon publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Lava Beds Nat Mon, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 48.7°F · 18.8° from 67.5°F | 35/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 176 calendar days | 28/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 14.2 in · 20.8 from 35 in | 25/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 43.2 inches/year | 25/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 114 days/year | 4/100 · F |
Lava Beds Nat Mon · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Lava Beds Nat Mon is a continental Köppen climate: Dsb
Coldest-month mean 31.8°F and warmest-month mean 69.2°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Dsb). Class Dsb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 69.2°F
- Coldest month
- 31.8°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 Lava Beds Nat Mon sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Lava Beds Nat Mon's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 34th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 85%
- Lava Beds Nat Mon's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 75%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Lava Beds Nat Mon is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Lava Beds Nat Mon compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Lava Beds Nat Mon's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
49 18th percentile score exceeds 18% 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 | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43°F (6°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 1.6" | 8.7" | 28.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 46°F (8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 2.1" | 9.3" | 24.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 52°F (11°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 1.9" | 6.9" | 23.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 57°F (14°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 1.3" | 4.0" | 17.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 66°F (19°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.4" | 1.0" | 7.6 | 0.2 |
| June | 76°F (24°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 1.0" | 0.1" | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| July | 86°F (30°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 11.0 |
| August | 86°F (30°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 8.8 |
| September | 78°F (26°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 1.7 | 2.1 |
| October | 66°F (19°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 0.8" | 0.3" | 10.1 | 0.0 |
| November | 50°F (10°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 1.5" | 5.0" | 22.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 41°F (5°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 1.5" | 7.9" | 28.1 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 88°F around July 26, short of 90°F on every date, while 176 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 22°F near December 19.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 21, then returns to freezing around October 29, covering 176 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 March 22, when 36% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 12 at 7%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 85 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 22 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 35°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Lava Beds Nat Mon.
Where Lava Beds Nat Mon Stands Nationally
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 14 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Daily temperature swings run wider than most of the country, peaking near 35°F between the normal high and low.
Lava Beds Nat Mon earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 8.7"
10.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 9.3"
9.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.9"
11.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.0"
9.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.0"
7.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
6.1 days with precipitation
2.8 days with precipitation
2.2 days with precipitation
2.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
5.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.0"
9.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.9"
7.9 days with precipitation
Lava Beds Nat Mon's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 37% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 12%. 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 37.4°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 2.1"
- Driest month
- August, 0.3"
- Wettest three months
- February, March, January (39% 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.
Lava Beds Nat Mon is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 85 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 23% of the calendar, and they carry 14.2" between them. At roughly 0.17 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 March at about 11 wet days; the driest is August at about 2.
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.
Winter brings real snow to Lava Beds Nat Mon
Lava Beds Nat Mon averages 43.2 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 31 days that record measurable snow. That is depth accumulating on the ground, which is why it can exceed the annual precipitation figure: precipitation counts the liquid the snow melts down to, and fresh snow is mostly air.
- Annual snowfall: 43.2 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 31 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 30% of the year's precipitation.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. The ten-to-one ratio is a convention, not a measurement: real ratios vary with temperature, so treat the share as an order of magnitude rather than an exact split.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 28
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 6
50% probability date
Growing Season
114 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,328
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
402
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Lava Beds Nat Mon 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).
- Clarkson, NE 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Cuba, NM 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Dove Creek, CO 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Guernsey, WY 49°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (14.2" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Vida, MT 14.2" · 0.0" off
- Wolf Point, MT 14.2" · 0.0" off
- Lake City, CO 14.3" · 0.0" off
- Fort Morgan, CO 14.3" · 0.1" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Lava Beds Nat Mon
heating led · dry · mid swing
Lava Beds Nat Mon's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,328 annual heating degree days against 402 for cooling. Its 37.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 114 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.
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1. Lava Beds Nat Mon coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 32°F (0°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Lava Beds Nat Mon typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Lava Beds Nat Mon snow peak
February
Lava Beds Nat Mon averages 43.2 inches of snow a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals.
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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 Lava Beds Nat Mon's primary station: LAVA BEDS NAT MON (USC00044838). 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 Lava Beds Nat Mon; 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 Lava Beds Nat Mon 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.