Mtn Park, NM 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 Mtn Park's primary NOAA station, MTN PARK.
The climate verdict for Mtn Park
Dryness leads the climate profile for Mtn Park, New Mexico, with 19.3 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 53°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.
- 53°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 54/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 19.3"
- annual precipitation · 17" snow
- 174 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Mtn Park: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00295960 · Mtn Park, NM 53°F mean · 19.3" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 53°F
- RANK-MID #3,636
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bonneville Dam
- PRCP-DRY 19.3"
- SWING-MID 32°F
- COMF-LOW 54/100
- LOAD-HEAT 4,755 HDD
- STN-1 USC00295960
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Bonneville Dam, OR ( -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 NM station list.
- Mtn Park (this station) 53°F
- Cold Cataloochee, NC 53°F
- Hot Downieville, CA 53°F
- Near Bonneville Dam, OR 53°F
- Near Rex, OR 53°F
Climate Living Index · Mtn Park
Mtn Park: 54/100 · grade D
Mtn Park publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Mtn Park, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 54/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 117 calendar days | 66/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 52.9°F · 14.6° from 67.5°F | 52/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 17.3 inches/year | 52/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 174 days/year | 45/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 19.3 in · 15.7 from 35 in | 44/100 · D |
Mtn Park · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Mtn Park is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfb
Coldest-month mean 36.9°F and warmest-month mean 68.8°F place this station in temperate, no dry season, warm summer climates (Cfb). Class Cfb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, no dry season, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Cfb
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 68.8°F
- Coldest month
- 36.9°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 Mtn Park sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Mtn Park's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 53rd percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 73%
- Mtn Park's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 88%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Mtn Park is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Mtn Park compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Mtn Park'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
Mtn Park's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 63 complete annual observations from 1916 to 2025, MTN PARK warmed at a fitted rate of 0.20°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Mtn Park primary station fitted change +0.20 °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 | 48°F (9°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 1.2" | 3.9" | 24.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 52°F (11°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 1.1" | 4.2" | 19.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 59°F (15°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 0.9" | 2.4" | 14.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 66°F (19°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 0.6" | 0.7" | 6.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 73°F (23°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 1.0 | 0.3 |
| June | 82°F (28°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 1.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.9 |
| July | 81°F (27°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 3.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.9 |
| August | 79°F (26°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 3.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| September | 74°F (24°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 2.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| October | 66°F (19°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 1.7" | 1.1" | 2.7 | 0.0 |
| November | 56°F (13°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 0.9" | 1.0" | 12.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 48°F (9°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 1.3" | 4.0" | 24.2 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 83°F around June 22, short of 90°F on every date, while 117 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 25°F near December 25.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 12, then returns to freezing around November 17, covering 117 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 July 29, when 38% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is April 16 at 7%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 60 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 5 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 Mtn Park.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 3.9"
3.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.2"
3.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.4"
3.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.7"
2.0 days with precipitation
3.2 days with precipitation
4.5 days with precipitation
11.6 days with precipitation
10.7 days with precipitation
6.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.1"
4.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.0"
2.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.0"
3.9 days with precipitation
Mtn Park runs a summer-peaked wet season
43% of Mtn Park'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 July at 3.6", on a 31.9°F seasonal spread. 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: July, August, September, taking 50% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: April at 0.6".
- Winter share: 18% 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.
How Mtn Park's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 60 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 19.3" between them, or roughly 0.32 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 Mtn Park
Mtn Park averages 17.3 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 8 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: 17.3 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 8 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 9% 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 21
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 30
50% probability date
Growing Season
174 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,755
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
373
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NM closest to Mtn Park 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 (53°F here).
- Chambersburg, PA 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Concordia, KS 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Harrisville, WV 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Langlois, OR 53°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (19.3" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Oakley, KS 19.3" · 0.0" off
- Burlington, CO 19.3" · 0.0" off
- Bushland, TX 19.3" · 0.0" off
- Harvey, ND 19.3" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Mtn Park
heating led · dry · mid swing
Mtn Park's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 4,755 annual heating degree days against 373 for cooling. Its 31.9°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Mtn Park's frost-free season lasts about 174 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Mtn Park coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 37°F (3°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Mtn Park typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Mtn Park snow peak
February
Mtn Park averages 17.3 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 Mtn Park's primary station: MTN PARK (USC00295960). 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 Mtn Park; 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 Mtn Park 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.