Luna Ranger Station, NM 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 Luna Ranger Station's primary NOAA station, LUNA RS.
The climate verdict for Luna Ranger Station
Dryness leads the climate profile for Luna Ranger Station, New Mexico, with 17.6 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 48°F. At 54/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 48°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 54/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 17.6"
- annual precipitation · 18" snow
- 96 days
- frost-free growing season
Luna Ranger Station: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00295273 · Luna Ranger Station, NM 48°F mean · 17.6" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 48°F
- RANK-COOL #2,196
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ SO Entrance Yos…
- PRCP-DRY 17.6"
- SWING-MID 34°F
- COMF-LOW 54/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,225 HDD
- STN-1 USC00295273
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: SO Entrance Yosemite National Park, CA (+ 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 NM station list.
- Luna Ranger Sta… (this station) 48°F
- Cold Big Bear Lake, CA 48°F
- Hot SO Entrance Yos…, CA 48°F
- Near Tolt S Fork Rsvr, WA 48°F
- Near Lake Spaulding, CA 48°F
Climate Living Index · Luna Ranger Station
Luna Ranger Station: 22/100 · grade F
Luna Ranger Station publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Luna Ranger Station, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 54/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 17.6 inches/year | 52/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 17.6 in · 17.4 from 35 in | 38/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 48.2°F · 19.3° from 67.5°F | 32/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 96 days/year | 0/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 241 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
Luna Ranger Station · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Luna Ranger Station is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 32.6°F and warmest-month mean 66.4°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
- 66.4°F
- Coldest month
- 32.6°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 Luna Ranger Station sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Luna Ranger Station's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 32nd percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 77%
- Luna Ranger Station's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 85%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Luna Ranger Station is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Luna Ranger Station compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Luna Ranger Station's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
54 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 52°F (11°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 1.2" | 5.4" | 30.4 | 0.0 |
| February | 55°F (13°C) | 17°F (-9°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 1.1" | 1.7" | 27.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 61°F (16°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 0.8" | 1.4" | 29.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 67°F (20°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 0.5" | 0.7" | 26.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 75°F (24°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 21.3 | 0.5 |
| June | 85°F (29°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 7.9 | 6.1 |
| July | 85°F (30°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 3.4" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 6.8 |
| August | 82°F (28°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.1 |
| September | 79°F (26°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 2.2" | 0.0" | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| October | 71°F (22°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 1.4" | 0.1" | 24.7 | 0.0 |
| November | 61°F (16°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 0.9" | 1.4" | 28.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 52°F (11°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 1.1" | 6.9" | 30.2 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 87°F around June 28, short of 90°F on every date, while 241 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 12°F near December 24.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 30, then returns to freezing around October 3, covering 241 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 July 30, when 52% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is April 24 at 10%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 78 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 7 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 49°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Luna Ranger Station.
Where Luna Ranger Station Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 241 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 49°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Luna Ranger Station 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: 5.4"
5.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.7"
4.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.4"
4.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.7"
3.2 days with precipitation
3.8 days with precipitation
4.0 days with precipitation
15.3 days with precipitation
15.4 days with precipitation
8.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
4.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.4"
3.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.9"
5.0 days with precipitation
Luna Ranger Station runs a summer-peaked wet season
44% of Luna Ranger Station'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 August at 3.8", on a 33.8°F seasonal spread. 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: August, July, September, taking 53% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: April at 0.5".
- Winter share: 19% 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 Luna Ranger Station's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 78 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 17.6" between them, or roughly 0.22 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.
Winter brings real snow to Luna Ranger Station
Luna Ranger Station averages 17.6 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 9 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: 17.6 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 9 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 10% 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 21
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 17
50% probability date
Growing Season
96 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,225
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
121
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NM closest to Luna Ranger Station 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 (48°F here).
- Belle Plaine, IA 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Broadus, MT 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Compton, IL 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Copake, NY 48°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (17.6" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Gillette, WY 17.6" · 0.0" off
- Morton, TX 17.6" · 0.0" off
- Big Springs, NE 17.6" · 0.0" off
- Dickinson, ND 17.6" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Luna Ranger Station
heating led · dry · mid swing
Luna Ranger Station's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,225 annual heating degree days against 121 for cooling. Its 33.8°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 96 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. Luna Ranger Station coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 33°F (0°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Luna Ranger Station typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Luna Ranger Station snow peak
December
Luna Ranger Station averages 17.6 inches of snow a year, with December 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 Luna Ranger Station's primary station: LUNA RS (USC00295273). 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 Luna Ranger Station; 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 Luna Ranger Station 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.