Morgan, UT 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 Morgan's primary NOAA station, MORGAN.
The climate verdict for Morgan
Dryness leads the climate profile for Morgan, Utah, with 17.1 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 48°F. At 44/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 10% of scores.
- 48°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 17.1"
- annual precipitation · 55" snow
- 122 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Morgan: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00425826 · Morgan, UT 48°F mean · 17.1" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 48°F
- RANK-COOL #1,990
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Manistee
- PRCP-DRY 17.1"
- SWING-WIDE 47°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,847 HDD
- STN-1 USC00425826
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Manistee, MI (+ 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 UT station list.
- Morgan (this station) 48°F
- Hot Fulton, NY 48°F
- Near Manistee, MI 48°F
- Cold Epping, NH 47°F
- Near Lages, NV 47°F
Climate Living Index · Morgan
Morgan: 18/100 · grade F
Morgan publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Morgan, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 17.1 in · 17.9 from 35 in | 36/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 47.5°F · 20.0° from 67.5°F | 29/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 55.1 inches/year | 18/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 122 days/year | 8/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 233 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
Morgan · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Morgan is a continental Köppen climate: Dsa
Coldest-month mean 25.3°F and warmest-month mean 71.9°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, hot summer climates (Dsa). Class Dsa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 71.9°F
- Coldest month
- 25.3°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 Morgan sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Morgan's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 71%
- Among 6,861 stations, Morgan sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 78%
- Morgan's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 67th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Morgan compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Morgan's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
44 10th percentile score exceeds 10% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Morgan's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 48 complete annual observations from 1949 to 2020, MORGAN warmed at a fitted rate of 0.18°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Morgan primary station fitted change +0.18 °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 | 37°F (3°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 1.8" | 17.0" | 29.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 42°F (6°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 1.4" | 10.6" | 26.1 | 0.0 |
| March | 53°F (12°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 1.8" | 6.7" | 25.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 61°F (16°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 1.7" | 2.3" | 16.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 71°F (22°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 1.8" | 0.2" | 5.1 | 0.3 |
| June | 82°F (28°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 1.2" | 0.0" | 0.7 | 5.6 |
| July | 92°F (33°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 20.9 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 17.9 |
| September | 80°F (26°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 1.3" | 0.2" | 3.7 | 2.7 |
| October | 66°F (19°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 1.4" | 0.6" | 18.3 | 0.1 |
| November | 50°F (10°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 1.6" | 5.6" | 25.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 37°F (3°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 1.8" | 11.9" | 29.2 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Morgan works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 93°F by July 22 and hold at or above 90°F on 40 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 193 dates, bottoming at 13°F around December 24.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 7 through August 15, covering 40 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 14 to October 7.
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 21, then returns to freezing around October 12, covering 193 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 February 21, when 32% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 6 at 12%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 88 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 16 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 40°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Morgan.
Where Morgan Stands Nationally
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 40°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Freezing is routine here by normals standards — the normal low reaches 32°F or colder on about 193 nights a year, more than most ranked stations.
Morgan 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: 17.0"
9.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.6"
8.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.7"
8.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.3"
9.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
8.9 days with precipitation
5.5 days with precipitation
3.7 days with precipitation
4.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
5.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
6.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.6"
8.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.9"
7.7 days with precipitation
Morgan spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 15% of the annual total and December through February 29%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Morgan has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 46.6°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: January averages 1.8" and July 0.6". The three wettest months together take 32% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
Morgan is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 87 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 24% of the calendar, and they carry 17.1" between them. At roughly 0.20 inches on an average wet day, this is not the damp drizzle of a marine climate; it is an arid record in which precipitation is both uncommon and light when it appears.
The wettest month by count is January at about 9 wet days; the driest is July at about 4.
A low per-event average in a dry record is a statement about typical days only. Arid regions can still take a large share of a year's total from a single convective storm, which a normal cannot show.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, not the extremes within it.
Winter brings real snow to Morgan
Morgan averages 55.1 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 24 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: 55.1 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 24 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 32% 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 24
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 25
50% probability date
Growing Season
122 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,847
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
487
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside UT closest to Morgan 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).
- Anselmo, NE 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Ardmore, SD 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Butte, NE 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Denison, IA 48°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (17.1" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Stratford, TX 17.1" · 0.0" off
- Bowman, ND 17.1" · 0.0" off
- Springer, NM 17.1" · 0.0" off
- St John, WA 17.1" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Morgan
heating led · dry · mid swing
Morgan's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,847 annual heating degree days against 487 for cooling. Its 46.6°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 122 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. Morgan coldest normal
January
Averaging 25°F (-4°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Morgan typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Morgan snow peak
January
Morgan averages 55.1 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 Morgan's primary station: MORGAN (USC00425826). 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 an incorporated place (GEOID 4951910). Match rule for Morgan: 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 Morgan 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.