Milford Lake, KS 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 Milford Lake's primary NOAA station, MILFORD LAKE.
The climate verdict for Milford Lake
Milford Lake, Kansas has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 55°F. Its climate comfort score of 68/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 56% of station-mapped location scores.
- 55°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 68/100
- comfort score, above 56% of station-mapped location scores
- 32.9"
- precipitation, annual total
- 197 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Milford Lake: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00145306 · Milford Lake, KS 55°F mean · 32.9" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 55°F
- RANK-MID #4,048
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Salt Lake City
- PRCP-MID 32.9"
- SWING-WIDE 50°F
- COMF-MID 68/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,143 HDD
- STN-1 USC00145306
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Salt Lake City, UT (+ 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 KS station list.
- Milford Lake (this station) 55°F
- Hot Kanopolis Lake, KS 55°F
- Near Salt Lake City, UT 55°F
- Near Valley Falls, KS 55°F
- Near John Martin Dam, CO 55°F
Climate Living Index · Milford Lake
Milford Lake: 68/100 · grade C
Milford 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 Milford Lake, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 68/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 32.9 in · 2.1 from 35 in | 91/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 118 calendar days | 66/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 197 days/year | 62/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 54.7°F · 12.8° from 67.5°F | 58/100 · C |
Milford Lake · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Milford Lake is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 29.2°F and warmest-month mean 79.0°F place this station in continental, no dry season, hot summer climates (Dfa). Class Dfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 79.0°F
- Coldest month
- 29.2°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 Milford Lake sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Milford Lake's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 59th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 44th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 80%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Milford Lake is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Milford Lake compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Milford Lake's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
68 Top 44% score exceeds 56% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Milford Lake's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 38 complete annual observations from 1968 to 2024, MILFORD LAKE warmed at a fitted rate of 0.16°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Milford Lake primary station fitted change +0.16 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 39°F (4°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 0.7" | 28.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 44°F (7°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 1.1" | 24.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 55°F (13°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 1.9" | 16.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 65°F (18°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 3.1" | 5.3 | 0.4 |
| May | 74°F (24°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 5.2" | 0.2 | 1.7 |
| June | 84°F (29°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 4.8" | 0.0 | 9.0 |
| July | 89°F (32°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 4.2" | 0.0 | 15.8 |
| August | 88°F (31°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 4.2" | 0.0 | 13.3 |
| September | 80°F (27°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 2.8" | 0.0 | 5.3 |
| October | 68°F (20°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 2.3" | 3.2 | 0.4 |
| November | 54°F (12°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.4" | 16.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 42°F (6°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 1.3" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 90°F around July 21, short of 90°F on every date, while 118 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 19°F near January 22.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 13, then returns to freezing around November 17, covering 118 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 May 8, when 35% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 6 at 12%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 85 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 6 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 24°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Milford Lake.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
3.7 days with precipitation
4.2 days with precipitation
6.3 days with precipitation
8.7 days with precipitation
11.1 days with precipitation
9.3 days with precipitation
9.3 days with precipitation
9.3 days with precipitation
7.9 days with precipitation
6.9 days with precipitation
4.6 days with precipitation
3.9 days with precipitation
Milford Lake runs a summer-peaked wet season
40% of Milford Lake'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 May at 5.2", on a wide 49.8°F gap between its warmest and coldest month. 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: May, June, August, taking 43% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: January at 0.7".
- Winter share: 9% 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.
When it rains in Milford Lake, it arrives in quantity
32.9" of precipitation falls across only about 85 wet days here, averaging 0.39 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 85 a year, 23% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.39 inches
- Most wet days
- May, about 11
- Fewest wet days
- January, about 4
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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 26
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 12
50% probability date
Growing Season
197 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,143
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,414
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside KS closest to Milford 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 (55°F here).
- Abingdon, VA 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Cranford, NJ 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Front Royal, VA 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Iuka, IL 55°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (32.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Bad Axe, MI 32.9" · 0.0" off
- Luck, WI 32.9" · 0.0" off
- Ontonagon, MI 32.9" · 0.0" off
- Flint, MI 32.9" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Milford Lake's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Milford Lake's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,143 annual heating degree days against 1,414 for cooling. Its 49.8°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Milford Lake's frost-free season lasts about 197 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Milford Lake's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 49.8°F. The annual average is 55°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Milford Lake's 32.9 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 Milford 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 Milford 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 Milford Lake's primary station: MILFORD LAKE (USC00145306). 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 Milford 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 Milford 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.