Long Beach Exp Stn, WA 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 Long Beach Exp Stn's primary NOAA station, LONG BEACH EXP STN.
The climate verdict for Long Beach Exp Stn
Water is the standout signal in Long Beach Exp Stn, Washington: 78.5 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 50°F. At 53/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 50°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 53/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 78.5"
- precipitation, annual total
- 203 days
- frost-free growing season
Long Beach Exp Stn: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00454748 · Long Beach Exp Stn, WA 50°F mean · 78.5" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 50°F
- RANK-COOL #2,676
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Raymond
- PRCP-WET 78.5"
- SWING-NARROW 17°F
- COMF-LOW 53/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,529 HDD
- STN-1 USC00454748
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Raymond, WA (+ 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 WA station list.
- Long Beach (this station) 50°F
- Cold Quillayute State, WA 50°F
- Hot Cascadia, OR 50°F
- Near Raymond, WA 50°F
- Near Quinault, WA 50°F
Climate Living Index · Long Beach Exp Stn
Long Beach Exp Stn: 59/100 · grade C
Long Beach Exp Stn publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Long Beach Exp Stn, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 53/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 0 calendar days | 100/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 203 days/year | 66/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 49.8°F · 17.7° from 67.5°F | 39/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 78.5 in · 43.5 from 35 in | 0/100 · F |
Long Beach Exp Stn · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Long Beach Exp Stn is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 42.0°F and warmest-month mean 59.0°F place this station in temperate, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Csb). Class Csb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Csb
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 59.0°F
- Coldest month
- 42.0°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 Long Beach Exp Stn sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Long Beach Exp Stn's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 39th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 1% wettest
- Long Beach Exp Stn's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 98%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Long Beach Exp Stn is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Long Beach Exp Stn compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Long Beach Exp Stn's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
53 31st percentile score exceeds 31% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Long Beach Exp Stn's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 112 complete annual observations from 1884 to 2018, LONG BEACH EXP STN warmed at a fitted rate of 0.06°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Long Beach Exp Stn primary station fitted change +0.06 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49°F (9°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 12.0" | 0.0" | 8.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 50°F (10°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 7.8" | 0.0" | 8.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 52°F (11°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 8.7" | 0.0" | 5.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 55°F (13°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 6.8" | 0.0" | 1.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 59°F (15°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 3.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| June | 62°F (17°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 2.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| July | 65°F (18°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| August | 67°F (19°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 1.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| September | 66°F (19°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 2.7" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| October | 60°F (15°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 8.2" | 0.0" | 1.1 | 0.0 |
| November | 53°F (11°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 11.4" | 0.0" | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 48°F (9°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 12.2" | 0.0" | 8.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The calendar barely moves in Long Beach Exp Stn: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 35°F near February 10 and 67°F near August 29.
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 35°F around February 10.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is December 14, when 76% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 24 at 34%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 215 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 25 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 19°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Long Beach Exp Stn.
Where Long Beach Exp Stn Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 79 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Among the steadiest day-night climates ranked: even the widest normal daily swing holds to roughly 19°F.
Long Beach Exp Stn 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
23.3 days with precipitation
18.3 days with precipitation
23.7 days with precipitation
20.7 days with precipitation
15.8 days with precipitation
13.5 days with precipitation
10.8 days with precipitation
11.4 days with precipitation
12.3 days with precipitation
19.5 days with precipitation
21.5 days with precipitation
23.4 days with precipitation
Long Beach Exp Stn's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 41% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 7%. 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 an unusually narrow 17°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 12.2"
- Driest month
- July, 1.0"
- Wettest three months
- December, January, November (45% 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.
When it rains in Long Beach Exp Stn, it arrives in quantity
78.5" of precipitation falls across only about 214 wet days here, averaging 0.37 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 214 a year, 59% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.37 inches
- Most wet days
- March, about 24
- Fewest wet days
- July, about 11
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Long Beach Exp Stn's record shows no measurable snowfall
This station measured snowfall across the 1991-2020 period and recorded none: the annual normal is 0.0 inches. That is a measured zero rather than missing data, which is a meaningful distinction here , most stations in the database simply do not report snow at all, and those pages say nothing about it.
A thirty-year normal of zero describes the typical year at this station. It is not a claim that snow has never fallen in the area.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 26
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 6
50% probability date
Growing Season
203 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,529
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
6
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WA closest to Long Beach Exp Stn 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 (50°F here).
- Allerton, IA 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Blowing Rock, NC 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Boswell, IN 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Cambridge City, IN 50°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (78.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Kodiak, AK 78.3" · 0.2" off
- Yachats, OR 78.3" · 0.2" off
- Klamath, CA 78.9" · 0.4" off
- Brookings, OR 77.6" · 0.9" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Long Beach Exp Stn's climate pattern fits together
heating led · wet · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Long Beach Exp Stn, at 5,529 degree days versus 6 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 17.0°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
Long Beach Exp Stn's frost-free season lasts about 203 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
Long Beach Exp Stn's 17.0°F seasonal spread is compact even though precipitation is abundant. August and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar. The annual average is 50°F. Temperature is relatively steady; the monthly rows show how rain and snow observations vary across the calendar.
Alongside its heating load, Long Beach Exp Stn carries 78.5 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. That distinction matters because a wet annual total can arrive as rain, snow, or a mixture at different times.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Long Beach Exp Stn'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 Long Beach Exp Stn, 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 Long Beach Exp Stn's primary station: LONG BEACH EXP STN (USC00454748). 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 Long Beach Exp Stn; 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 Long Beach Exp Stn 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.