Manzanita Lake, 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 Manzanita Lake's primary NOAA station, MANZANITA LAKE.
The climate verdict for Manzanita Lake
Manzanita Lake, California has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 45°F. At 52/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 24% of scores.
- 45°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 52/100
- comfort score, above 24% of station-mapped location scores
- 42.1"
- yearly precipitation total
- 104 days
- frost-free growing season
Manzanita Lake: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00045311 · Manzanita Lake, CA 45°F mean · 42.1" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 45°F
- RANK-COOL #1,166
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bridgeport
- PRCP-MID 42.1"
- SWING-MID 32°F
- COMF-LOW 52/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,527 HDD
- STN-1 USC00045311
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Bridgeport, 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 CA station list.
- Manzanita Lake (this station) 45°F
- Hot Evergreen, CO 45°F
- Near Buena Vista, CO 45°F
- Cold Bridgeport, CA 44°F
- Near Bellemont, AZ 44°F
Climate Living Index · Manzanita Lake
Manzanita Lake: 26/100 · grade F
Manzanita Lake publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Manzanita Lake, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 52/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 42.1 in · 7.1 from 35 in | 75/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 44.5°F · 23.0° from 67.5°F | 18/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 197 calendar days | 16/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 104 days/year | 0/100 · F |
Manzanita Lake · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Manzanita Lake is a continental Köppen climate: Dsb
Coldest-month mean 30.6°F and warmest-month mean 62.6°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
- 62.6°F
- Coldest month
- 30.6°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 Manzanita Lake sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Manzanita Lake's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 83%
- Among 6,861 stations, Manzanita Lake sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 63rd percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 88%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Manzanita Lake is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Manzanita Lake compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Manzanita Lake's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
52 24th percentile score exceeds 24% 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 | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 41°F (5°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 6.5" | 29.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 42°F (5°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 5.5" | 26.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 46°F (8°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 6.4" | 28.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 50°F (10°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 4.3" | 23.6 | 0.0 |
| May | 61°F (16°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 2.9" | 12.4 | 0.0 |
| June | 70°F (21°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 1.3" | 3.1 | 0.3 |
| July | 79°F (26°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.3" | 0.3 | 1.7 |
| August | 78°F (26°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 0.3" | 0.2 | 1.2 |
| September | 72°F (22°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 0.7" | 3.1 | 0.3 |
| October | 59°F (15°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 2.7" | 14.5 | 0.0 |
| November | 47°F (8°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 4.7" | 24.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 40°F (4°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 6.5" | 29.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 80°F around July 23, short of 90°F on every date, while 197 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 21°F near February 7.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 4, then returns to freezing around October 21, covering 197 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.
The widest day
August 26 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 34°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Manzanita Lake.
Where Manzanita Lake Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 197 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Daily temperature swings run wider than most of the country, peaking near 34°F between the normal high and low.
Manzanita Lake earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Manzanita Lake's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 44% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 5%. 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 32°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- January, 6.5"
- Driest month
- August, 0.3"
- Wettest three months
- January, December, March (46% 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 21
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 9
50% probability date
Growing Season
104 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,527
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
84
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Manzanita Lake 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 (45°F here).
- Amidon, ND 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Cadillac, MI 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Canton, NY 45°F · 0.0°F off
- Cavendish, VT 45°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (42.1" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Radford, VA 42.1" · 0.0" off
- Warrensburg, MO 42.1" · 0.0" off
- Christiansburg, VA 42.1" · 0.0" off
- Corsicana, TX 42.1" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Manzanita Lake's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Manzanita Lake's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,527 annual heating degree days against 84 for cooling. Its 32.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 104 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.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Manzanita Lake's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 32.0°F. The annual average is 45°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Manzanita Lake's 42.1 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 Manzanita Lake'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 Manzanita Lake, 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 Manzanita Lake's primary station: MANZANITA LAKE (USC00045311). 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 Manzanita Lake; 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 Manzanita Lake 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.