Minden, NV Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Minden's primary NOAA station, MINDEN.
The climate verdict for Minden
Dryness leads the climate profile for Minden, Nevada, with 9.3 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 50°F. At 39/100 (below average) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 4% of scores.
- 50°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 39/100
- comfort score, above 4% of station-mapped location scores
- 9.3"
- annual precipitation · 22" snow
- 119 days
- frost-free growing season
Minden: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00265191 · Minden, NV 50°F mean · 9.3" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 50°F
- RANK-MID #2,744
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pecos National…
- PRCP-ARID 9.3"
- SWING-MID 38°F
- COMF-LOW 39/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,805 HDD
- STN-1 USC00265191
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Pecos National Monument, NM ( -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 NV station list.
- Minden (this station) 50°F
- Cold Richwood, WV 50°F
- Hot Susanville, CA 50°F
- Near Pecos National…, NM 50°F
- Near Vineyard Haven, MA 50°F
Climate Living Index · Minden
Minden: 20/100 · grade F
Minden publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Minden, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 39/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 21.8 inches/year | 47/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 50.1°F · 17.4° from 67.5°F | 41/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 9.3 in · 25.7 from 35 in | 10/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 119 days/year | 7/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 239 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
Minden · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Minden is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 32.2°F and warmest-month mean 70.1°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
- 70.1°F
- Coldest month
- 32.2°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 Minden sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Minden's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 40th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 95%
- Minden's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 73%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Minden is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Minden compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Minden's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
39 4th percentile score exceeds 4% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Above this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Above this entry.
- 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
Minden's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 55 complete annual observations from 1909 to 2023, MINDEN warmed at a fitted rate of 0.08°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Minden primary station fitted change +0.08 °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 | 47°F (8°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 1.7" | 5.6" | 29.1 | 0.0 |
| February | 51°F (11°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 1.3" | 4.1" | 25.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 58°F (15°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.3" | 3.4" | 25.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 64°F (18°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 0.5" | 1.5" | 21.1 | 0.0 |
| May | 73°F (23°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 0.6" | 0.1" | 7.1 | 1.4 |
| June | 83°F (28°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.3" | 0.1" | 1.2 | 10.3 |
| July | 91°F (33°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 23.3 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 22.8 |
| September | 83°F (29°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 3.5 | 9.6 |
| October | 71°F (22°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 0.6" | 0.2" | 20.0 | 1.1 |
| November | 57°F (14°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 0.8" | 1.6" | 26.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 46°F (8°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 1.5" | 5.2" | 28.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Minden works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 92°F by July 22 and hold at or above 90°F on 44 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 195 dates, bottoming at 18°F around December 19.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 7 through August 19, covering 44 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 8 to October 18.
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.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 24, then returns to freezing around October 13, covering 195 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 January 6, when 21% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 28 at 5%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 43 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 26 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 44°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Minden.
Where Minden Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 9 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 44°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Minden 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: 5.6"
6.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.1"
6.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.4"
4.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.5"
3.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
3.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
1.8 days with precipitation
1.8 days with precipitation
1.9 days with precipitation
1.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
2.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.6"
4.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.2"
5.5 days with precipitation
Minden's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 49% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 9%. 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 37.9°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- January, 1.7"
- Driest month
- September, 0.2"
- Wettest three months
- January, December, February (49% 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.
How Minden's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 43 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 9.3" 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 Minden
Minden averages 21.8 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 11 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: 21.8 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 11 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 23% 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 26
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 30
50% probability date
Growing Season
119 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,805
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
385
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Minden 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).
- Akron, CO 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Ansonia, CT 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Banner Elk, NC 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Bluffton, IN 50°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (9.3" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Riverside, CA 9.4" · 0.0" off
- St George, UT 9.3" · 0.0" off
- Terlingua, TX 9.3" · 0.0" off
- Arlington, OR 9.3" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Minden
heating led · dry · mid swing
Minden's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,805 annual heating degree days against 385 for cooling. Its 37.9°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 119 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. Minden coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 32°F (0°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Minden typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Minden snow peak
January
Minden averages 21.8 inches of snow a year, with January 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 Minden's primary station: MINDEN (USC00265191). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as a census-designated place (GEOID 3247000), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Minden: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Minden 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.