Mt Charleston Fire Stn, NV 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 Mt Charleston Fire Stn's primary NOAA station, MT CHARLESTON FIRE STN.
The climate verdict for Mt Charleston Fire Stn
Mt Charleston Fire Stn, Nevada has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 47°F. At 54/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 47°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 54/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 26.4"
- annual precipitation · 100" snow
- 124 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Mt Charleston Fire Stn: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00265400 · Mt Charleston Fire Stn, NV 47°F mean · 26.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 47°F
- RANK-COOL #1,852
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mund's Park
- PRCP-MID 26.4"
- SWING-MID 33°F
- COMF-LOW 54/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,705 HDD
- STN-1 USC00265400
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Mund's Park, AZ (+ 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 NV station list.
- Mt Charleston F… (this station) 47°F
- Cold Flagstaff Pulli…, AZ 47°F
- Hot Marion Forks Fi…, OR 47°F
- Near Mund's Park, AZ 47°F
- Near Klamath Falls, OR 47°F
Climate Living Index · Mt Charleston Fire Stn
Mt Charleston Fire Stn: 28/100 · grade F
Mt Charleston Fire Stn publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Mt Charleston Fire Stn, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 54/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 26.4 in · 8.6 from 35 in | 70/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 47.0°F · 20.5° from 67.5°F | 27/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 183 calendar days | 23/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 124 days/year | 9/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 100.1 inches/year | 0/100 · F |
Mt Charleston Fire Stn · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Mt Charleston Fire Stn is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 32.5°F and warmest-month mean 65.6°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
- 65.6°F
- Coldest month
- 32.5°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 Mt Charleston Fire Stn sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Mt Charleston Fire Stn's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 73%
- Among 6,861 stations, Mt Charleston Fire Stn sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 36th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 86%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Mt Charleston Fire Stn is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Mt Charleston Fire Stn compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Mt Charleston Fire Stn's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
54 31st percentile score exceeds 31% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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 | 44°F (7°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 3.7" | 20.5" | 30.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 44°F (7°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 5.1" | 29.3" | 27.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 49°F (10°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 2.9" | 17.2" | 27.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 55°F (13°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 1.0" | 6.2" | 21.7 | 0.0 |
| May | 63°F (17°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 0.8" | 1.6" | 11.0 | 0.0 |
| June | 74°F (23°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 0.3" | 0.3" | 2.6 | 0.2 |
| July | 79°F (26°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 2.2" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| August | 78°F (26°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 2.3" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| September | 72°F (22°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 1.7" | 0.0" | 3.3 | 0.0 |
| October | 62°F (16°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 1.8" | 1.0" | 15.1 | 0.0 |
| November | 51°F (11°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 1.3" | 7.7" | 25.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 44°F (7°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 3.2" | 16.3" | 29.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 79°F around July 20, short of 90°F on every date, while 183 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 21°F near December 14.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 26, then returns to freezing around October 27, covering 183 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 22, when 25% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 15 at 7%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 56 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 20 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 29°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Mt Charleston Fire Stn.
Where Mt Charleston Fire Stn Stands Nationally
Freezing is routine here by normals standards — the normal low reaches 32°F or colder on about 183 nights a year, more than most ranked stations.
Mt Charleston Fire Stn earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 20.5"
5.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 29.3"
7.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 17.2"
5.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.2"
4.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.6"
4.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
1.6 days with precipitation
5.9 days with precipitation
5.8 days with precipitation
3.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.0"
3.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.7"
3.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 16.3"
5.6 days with precipitation
Mt Charleston Fire Stn's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 45% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 18%. 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 33.1°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 5.1"
- Driest month
- June, 0.3"
- Wettest three months
- February, January, December (45% 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 Mt Charleston Fire Stn, it arrives in quantity
26.4" of precipitation falls across only about 56 wet days here, averaging 0.47 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 56 a year, 15% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.47 inches
- Most wet days
- February, about 7
- Fewest wet days
- June, about 2
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.
Winter brings real snow to Mt Charleston Fire Stn
Mt Charleston Fire Stn averages 100.1 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 26 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: 100.1 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 26 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 38% 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
October 2
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 31
50% probability date
Growing Season
124 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,705
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
156
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Mt Charleston Fire Stn 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 (47°F here).
- Alma, MI 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Anamosa, IA 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Audubon, IA 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Big Timber, MT 47°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (26.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- McLean, TX 26.4" · 0.0" off
- Madison, SD 26.4" · 0.0" off
- Mangum, OK 26.4" · 0.0" off
- Glenwood, MN 26.4" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Mt Charleston Fire Stn
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Mt Charleston Fire Stn's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,705 annual heating degree days against 156 for cooling. Its 33.1°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 124 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. Mt Charleston Fire Stn coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 33°F (0°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Mt Charleston Fire Stn typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Mt Charleston Fire Stn snow peak
February
Mt Charleston Fire Stn averages 100.1 inches of snow a year, with February 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 Mt Charleston Fire Stn's primary station: MT CHARLESTON FIRE STN (USC00265400). 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 Mt Charleston Fire Stn; 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 Mt Charleston Fire Stn 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.