Markley Cove, CA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Markley Cove's primary NOAA station, MARKLEY COVE.
The climate verdict for Markley Cove
A compact 28.9°F seasonal swing gives Markley Cove, California a steadier-than-extreme annual shape. NOAA reports an annual average of 61°F. It scores 97/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 97% of them.
- 61°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 97/100
- comfort score, above 97% of station-mapped location scores
- 27.9"
- precipitation, annual total
- 269 days
- frost-free growing season
Markley Cove: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00045360 · Markley Cove, CA 61°F mean · 27.9" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-NARROW · COMF-TOP · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 61°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,283
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Tracy Carbona
- PRCP-MID 27.9"
- SWING-NARROW 29°F
- COMF-TOP 97/100
- LOAD-HEAT 2,753 HDD
- STN-1 USC00045360
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Tracy Carbona, CA (+ 0.3 °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.
- Markley Cove (this station) 61°F
- Hot Coronado Nmem, AZ 61°F
- Near Tracy Carbona, CA 61°F
- Near Sacramento Metro, CA 61°F
- Cold Paso Robles, CA 60°F
Climate Living Index · Markley Cove
Markley Cove: 82/100 · grade B
Markley Cove publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Markley Cove, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 97/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 269 days/year | 94/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 88 calendar days | 80/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 60.7°F · 6.8° from 67.5°F | 79/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 27.9 in · 7.1 from 35 in | 75/100 · B |
Markley Cove · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Markley Cove is a temperate Köppen climate: Csa
Coldest-month mean 46.9°F and warmest-month mean 75.8°F place this station in temperate, dry-summer, hot summer climates (Csa). Class Csa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, dry-summer, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Csa
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 75.8°F
- Coldest month
- 46.9°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 Markley Cove sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Markley Cove's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 23% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Markley Cove sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 38th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 92%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Markley Cove is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Markley Cove compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Markley Cove's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
97 Top 3% score exceeds 97% 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%). Below this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Below this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). This entry sits in this band.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Markley Cove's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 48 complete annual observations from 1971 to 2025, MARKLEY COVE warmed at a fitted rate of 0.38°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Markley Cove primary station fitted change +0.38 °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 | 57°F (14°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 5.7" | 0.0" | 7.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 61°F (16°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 5.9" | 0.0" | 4.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 66°F (19°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 4.1" | 0.0" | 1.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 71°F (22°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 1.7" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 0.6 |
| May | 79°F (26°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 5.0 |
| June | 88°F (31°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 14.4 |
| July | 95°F (35°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 24.8 |
| August | 94°F (35°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 24.0 |
| September | 90°F (32°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 17.7 |
| October | 79°F (26°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 4.2 |
| November | 66°F (19°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 2.5" | 0.0" | 1.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 58°F (14°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 5.6" | 0.0" | 8.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Markley Cove runs from a mild 36°F around January 1 to 96°F at the peak near July 20, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 22 through September 17, covering 88 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 11 to November 6.
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 36°F around January 1.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is February 17, when 36% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 31 at 0%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 63 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 29 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 39°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Markley Cove.
Where Markley Cove Stands Nationally
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 39°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Heat is a defining feature of the normals calendar — the normal daily high reaches 90°F on roughly 88 days a year, more than four out of five ranked stations record.
Markley Cove 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
10.9 days with precipitation
10.1 days with precipitation
9.4 days with precipitation
5.7 days with precipitation
3.7 days with precipitation
1.1 days with precipitation
0.2 days with precipitation
0.1 days with precipitation
0.9 days with precipitation
3.0 days with precipitation
7.1 days with precipitation
10.8 days with precipitation
Markley Cove's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 62% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 1%. 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 28.9°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 5.9"
- Driest month
- July, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- February, January, December (62% 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 Markley Cove, it arrives in quantity
28.0" of precipitation falls across only about 63 wet days here, averaging 0.44 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 63 a year, 17% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.44 inches
- Most wet days
- January, about 11
- Fewest wet days
- August, about 0
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.
Markley Cove'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
November 30
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 6
50% probability date
Growing Season
269 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,753
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,188
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Markley Cove 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 (61°F here).
- Blytheville, AR 61°F · 0.0°F off
- Borger, TX 61°F · 0.0°F off
- Concord, NC 61°F · 0.0°F off
- Courtland, AL 61°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (27.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Canby, MN 27.9" · 0.0" off
- Olivia, MN 27.9" · 0.0" off
- Verdel, NE 28.0" · 0.0" off
- Walker, MN 28.0" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Markley Cove's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Markley Cove, at 2,753 degree days versus 1,188 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 28.9°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
The frost-free window extends for about 269 days. That is a long calendar measure, but it is not a forecast and does not combine heat, rainfall, soil, or local elevation into a planting recommendation.
Temperature varies within a narrow 28.9°F band across the normal year. July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar. The annual average is 61°F. Monthly rows still matter, but they refine a steady profile rather than reveal two climatic extremes.
Markley Cove's 27.9 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Markley Cove'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 Markley Cove, 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 Markley Cove's primary station: MARKLEY COVE (USC00045360). 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 Markley Cove; 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 Markley Cove 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.