Moxee City, WA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Moxee City's primary NOAA station, MOXEE CITY 10 E.
The climate verdict for Moxee City
Dryness leads the climate profile for Moxee City, Washington, with 7.8 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 50°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.
- 50°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 7.8"
- annual precipitation · 10" snow
- 159 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Moxee City: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00455688 · Moxee City, WA 50°F mean · 7.8" 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 #2,813
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mt Nebo
- PRCP-ARID 7.8"
- SWING-MID 41°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,881 HDD
- STN-1 USC00455688
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Mt Nebo, WV (+ 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 WA station list.
- Moxee City (this station) 50°F
- Cold Lacrosse, WA 50°F
- Hot Grand Canyon E…, AZ 50°F
- Near Mt Nebo, WV 50°F
- Near Gallup Sand & G…, NM 50°F
Climate Living Index · Moxee City
Moxee City: 39/100 · grade F
Moxee City publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Moxee City, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 9.9 inches/year | 63/100 · C |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 145 calendar days | 50/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 50.2°F · 17.3° from 67.5°F | 41/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 159 days/year | 33/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 7.8 in · 27.2 from 35 in | 7/100 · F |
Moxee City · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Moxee City's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSk
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: cold semi-arid steppe (BSk). Class BSk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 71.1°F
- Coldest month
- 30.5°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 Moxee City sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Moxee City's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 41st percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 97%
- Moxee City's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 38th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Moxee City compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Moxee City'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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38°F (3°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 0.9" | 3.2" | 27.4 | 0.0 |
| February | 45°F (7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 0.6" | 1.2" | 22.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 54°F (12°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 0.6" | 0.4" | 18.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 62°F (17°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 11.2 | 0.0 |
| May | 72°F (22°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 3.2 | 0.7 |
| June | 79°F (26°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.7 |
| July | 88°F (31°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 13.5 |
| August | 87°F (30°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 11.0 |
| September | 77°F (25°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 1.9 |
| October | 62°F (17°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 7.7 | 0.0 |
| November | 47°F (8°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 38°F (4°C) | 0.8" | 1.7" | 20.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 37°F (3°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 1.1" | 3.4" | 27.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Moxee City works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 90°F by July 25 and hold at or above 90°F on 8 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 137 dates, bottoming at 23°F around December 24.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 24 through July 31, covering 8 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 9 to October 2.
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 March 21, then returns to freezing around November 6, covering 137 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 December 24, when 26% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 13 at 6%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 59 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 25 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 35°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Moxee City.
Where Moxee City Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 8 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Daily temperature swings run wider than most of the country, peaking near 35°F between the normal high and low.
Moxee City 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: 3.2"
6.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.2"
5.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
5.0 days with precipitation
4.7 days with precipitation
5.8 days with precipitation
4.0 days with precipitation
1.8 days with precipitation
1.8 days with precipitation
2.6 days with precipitation
6.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.7"
6.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.4"
7.9 days with precipitation
Moxee City spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 13% of the annual total and December through February 34%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Moxee City has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 40.6°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: December averages 1.1" and August 0.2". The three wettest months together take 37% 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.
Moxee City is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 59 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 16% of the calendar, and they carry 7.8" between them. At roughly 0.13 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 December at about 8 wet days; the driest is July at about 2.
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.
Snow reaches Moxee City, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 9.9 inches of snow a year here, most likely in December. That is a real but marginal amount: enough that snow is part of the local record, not enough to define the winter.
A figure in this range usually reflects a handful of events that melt quickly rather than a season of accumulation; about 7 days a year record any measurable snow at all.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. An average across thirty years can smooth away a single heavy winter, so a small annual figure does not mean a significant snowfall is impossible.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 10
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 4
50% probability date
Growing Season
159 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,881
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
509
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WA closest to Moxee City 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).
- Ainsworth, NE 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Aurora, IL 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Blair, NE 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Bloomington, IL 50°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (7.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Farson, WY 7.8" · 0.0" off
- Hesperia, CA 7.8" · 0.0" off
- Mcdermitt, NV 7.8" · 0.0" off
- Rachel, NV 7.8" · 0.0" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Moxee City's limited precipitation lands
heating led · dry · mid swing
Moxee City's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,881 annual heating degree days against 509 for cooling. Its 40.6°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Moxee City's frost-free season lasts about 159 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Moxee City's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 40.6°F. The annual average is 50°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Moxee City's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 7.8 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Annual snowfall totals 9.9 inches. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
Moxee City wettest normal
December
December concentrates the scarce annual total (7.8 inches).
Moxee City driest normal
August
August is typically driest; arid stations are defined by when water is absent, not by a four-season grid.
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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 Moxee City's primary station: MOXEE CITY 10 E (USC00455688). 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 Moxee City; 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 Moxee City 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.