New Cuyama Fire Stn, CA 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 New Cuyama Fire Stn's primary NOAA station, NEW CUYAMA FIRE STN.
The climate verdict for New Cuyama Fire Stn
Dryness leads the climate profile for New Cuyama Fire Stn, California, with 7.4 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 59°F. Its climate comfort score of 56/100 (moderate) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 36% of station-mapped location scores.
- 59°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 56/100
- comfort score, above 36% of station-mapped location scores
- 7.4"
- precipitation, annual total
- 203 days
- frost-free days per growing season
New Cuyama Fire Stn: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00046154 · New Cuyama Fire Stn, CA 59°F mean · 7.4" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-NARROW · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 59°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,009
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Chiricahua Nati…
- PRCP-ARID 7.4"
- SWING-NARROW 29°F
- COMF-MID 56/100
- LOAD-HEAT 3,082 HDD
- STN-1 USC00046154
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Chiricahua National Monument, AZ (+ 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 CA station list.
- Hot Bisbee, AZ 60°F
- Near Chiricahua Nati…, AZ 60°F
- Near Elgin, AZ 60°F
- New Cuyama Fire (this station) 59°F
- Cold Mt Locke, TX 59°F
Climate Living Index · New Cuyama Fire Stn
New Cuyama Fire Stn: 60/100 · grade C
New Cuyama Fire Stn publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for New Cuyama Fire Stn, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 56/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 97 calendar days | 77/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 59.4°F · 8.1° from 67.5°F | 74/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 203 days/year | 66/100 · C |
| Precipitation balance | 7.4 in · 27.6 from 35 in | 6/100 · F |
New Cuyama Fire Stn · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
New Cuyama Fire Stn'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
- 75.6°F
- Coldest month
- 46.4°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 New Cuyama Fire Stn sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for New Cuyama Fire Stn's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 27% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, New Cuyama Fire Stn sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 98%
- New Cuyama Fire Stn's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 91%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for New Cuyama Fire Stn is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How New Cuyama Fire Stn compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
New Cuyama Fire Stn's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
56 36th percentile score exceeds 36% 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 | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 61°F (16°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 1.5" | 14.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 62°F (17°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 1.6" | 10.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 66°F (19°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 1.5" | 6.0 | 0.1 |
| April | 71°F (22°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 0.5" | 3.2 | 0.9 |
| May | 80°F (26°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 0.3" | 0.1 | 4.9 |
| June | 88°F (31°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.0" | 0.0 | 16.0 |
| July | 95°F (35°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 26.6 |
| August | 94°F (34°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 0.0" | 0.0 | 25.2 |
| September | 89°F (32°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 17.0 |
| October | 78°F (26°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 0.2" | 0.9 | 4.5 |
| November | 68°F (20°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 0.5" | 8.2 | 0.2 |
| December | 61°F (16°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 1.1" | 16.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
New Cuyama Fire Stn works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 95°F by July 20 and hold at or above 90°F on 83 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 14 dates, bottoming at 32°F around December 12.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 22 through September 12, covering 83 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 13 to November 8.
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
Freezing normal lows set in around December 10, covering 14 dates.
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 12, when 23% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 4 at 1%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 33 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 12 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 38°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for New Cuyama Fire Stn.
Where New Cuyama Fire Stn Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 7 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 38°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
New Cuyama Fire Stn earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
6.3 days with precipitation
6.6 days with precipitation
5.1 days with precipitation
2.9 days with precipitation
1.7 days with precipitation
0.2 days with precipitation
0.4 days with precipitation
0.1 days with precipitation
0.6 days with precipitation
1.5 days with precipitation
2.6 days with precipitation
4.9 days with precipitation
New Cuyama Fire Stn's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 57% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 2%. 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 an unusually narrow 29.2°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 1.6"
- Driest month
- August, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- February, January, March (63% 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 New Cuyama Fire Stn's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 33 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 7.4" 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 4
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 15
50% probability date
Growing Season
203 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,082
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,081
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to New Cuyama 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 (59°F here).
- Levelland, TX 59°F · 0.0°F off
- Morton, TX 59°F · 0.0°F off
- Red Rock, OK 59°F · 0.0°F off
- Siler City, NC 59°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (7.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Bruneau, ID 7.4" · 0.0" off
- Fruitland, NM 7.3" · 0.0" off
- Sutcliffe, NV 7.4" · 0.1" off
- Hiko, NV 7.3" · 0.1" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where New Cuyama Fire Stn's limited precipitation lands
heating led · dry · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in New Cuyama Fire Stn, at 3,082 degree days versus 1,081 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 29.2°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
New Cuyama Fire Stn's frost-free season lasts about 203 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
The calendar stays thermally compact and dry. July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar, only 29.2°F apart, while the annual precipitation total remains below PlainClimate's dry threshold. The annual average is 59°F. The monthly rows show whether that limited precipitation is spread through the year or concentrated in a shorter interval.
New Cuyama Fire Stn's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 7.4 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
New Cuyama Fire Stn wettest normal
February
February concentrates the scarce annual total (7.4 inches).
New Cuyama Fire Stn 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 New Cuyama Fire Stn's primary station: NEW CUYAMA FIRE STN (USC00046154). 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 New Cuyama 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 New Cuyama 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.