New Meadows Ranger Station, ID Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from New Meadows Ranger Station's primary NOAA station, NEW MEADOWS RS.
The climate verdict for New Meadows Ranger Station
New Meadows Ranger Station, Idaho has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 41°F. July is the warmest month at 64°F and January the coldest at 20°F.
- 41°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 24.5"
- yearly precipitation total
New Meadows Ranger Station: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00106388 · New Meadows Ranger Station, ID 41°F mean · 24.5" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 41°F
- RANK-COOL #549
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Laramie Rgnl
- PRCP-DRY 24.5"
- SWING-MID 44°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 8,687 HDD
- STN-1 USC00106388
- BOOK-FULL 5/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Laramie Rgnl, WY (+ 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 ID station list.
- Hot Lima, MT 42°F
- Near Mccall, ID 42°F
- New Meadows Ran… (this station) 41°F
- Cold Blackleaf, MT 41°F
- Near Laramie Rgnl, WY 41°F
Climate Living Index · New Meadows Ranger Station
New Meadows Ranger Station: 18/100 · grade F
New Meadows Ranger Station publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for New Meadows Ranger Station, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 24.5 in · 10.5 from 35 in | 63/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 41.4°F · 26.1° from 67.5°F | 8/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 235 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
New Meadows Ranger Station · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
New Meadows Ranger Station is a continental Köppen climate: Dsb
Coldest-month mean 19.7°F and warmest-month mean 64.0°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Dsb). Class Dsb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 64.0°F
- Coldest month
- 19.7°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 Meadows Ranger Station sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for New Meadows Ranger Station's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 92%
- Among 6,861 stations, New Meadows Ranger Station sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 34th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 55th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
New Meadows Ranger Station's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 56 complete annual observations from 1906 to 2017, NEW MEADOWS RS warmed at a fitted rate of 0.07°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- New Meadows Ranger Station primary station fitted change +0.07 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30°F (-1°C) | 9°F (-13°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 2.9" | 30.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 36°F (2°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 2.0" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 45°F (7°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 2.5" | 29.2 | 0.0 |
| April | 55°F (13°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 2.0" | 24.8 | 0.0 |
| May | 64°F (18°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 2.4" | 14.6 | 0.0 |
| June | 72°F (22°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 2.1" | 5.6 | 1.0 |
| July | 85°F (29°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 0.7" | 0.9 | 10.1 |
| August | 85°F (29°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.6" | 2.9 | 9.2 |
| September | 75°F (24°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 1.0" | 15.9 | 1.3 |
| October | 59°F (15°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 1.8" | 25.7 | 0.0 |
| November | 42°F (5°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 2.5" | 28.2 | 0.0 |
| December | 31°F (-1°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 4.0" | 30.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 88°F around July 27, short of 90°F on every date, while 235 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 9°F near January 10.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 10, then returns to freezing around September 19, covering 235 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.
The widest day
August 12 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 44°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for New Meadows Ranger Station.
Where New Meadows Ranger Station Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 235 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 44°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
New Meadows Ranger Station earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
New Meadows Ranger Station's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 36% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 14%. 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 44.3°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 4.0"
- Driest month
- August, 0.6"
- Wettest three months
- December, January, November (39% 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,687
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
108
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside ID closest to New Meadows Ranger Station 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 (41°F here).
- Angel Fire, NM 41°F · 0.0°F off
- Antigo, WI 41°F · 0.0°F off
- Couderay, WI 41°F · 0.0°F off
- Fargo, ND 41°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (24.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Fairfield, CA 24.5" · 0.0" off
- Aspen, CO 24.4" · 0.1" off
- Paint Rock, TX 24.6" · 0.1" off
- Beaver City, NE 24.6" · 0.1" off
Data-derived climate profile
How New Meadows Ranger Station's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
New Meadows Ranger Station's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,687 annual heating degree days against 108 for cooling. Its 44.3°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for New Meadows Ranger Station. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in New Meadows Ranger Station's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 44.3°F. The annual average is 41°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
New Meadows Ranger Station's 24.5 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from New Meadows Ranger Station's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for New Meadows Ranger Station, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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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 Meadows Ranger Station's primary station: NEW MEADOWS RS (USC00106388). 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 Meadows Ranger Station; 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 Meadows Ranger Station 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.