Newman, CA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Newman's primary NOAA station, NEWMAN.
The climate verdict for Newman
Dryness leads the climate profile for Newman, California, with 11.7 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 65°F. It scores 87/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 87% of them.
- 65°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 87/100
- comfort score, above 87% of station-mapped location scores
- 11.7"
- precipitation, annual total
- 276 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Newman: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00046168 · Newman, CA 65°F mean · 11.7" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 65°F
- RANK-UPPER #6,038
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ballinger
- PRCP-ARID 11.7"
- SWING-MID 32°F
- COMF-TOP 87/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00046168
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Ballinger, TX (+ 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 CA station list.
- Newman (this station) 65°F
- Hot Decatur, TX 65°F
- Near Ballinger, TX 65°F
- Near Boyce, LA 65°F
- Near Cleburne, TX 65°F
Climate Living Index · Newman
Newman: 69/100 · grade C
Newman publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Newman, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 87/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 276 days/year | 96/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 65.0°F · 2.5° from 67.5°F | 92/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 133 calendar days | 57/100 · C |
| Precipitation balance | 11.7 in · 23.3 from 35 in | 17/100 · F |
Newman · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Newman's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSh
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: hot semi-arid steppe (BSh). Class BSh is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically hot semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSh
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 80.8°F
- Coldest month
- 49.1°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 · balanced station
Where Newman sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Newman's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 12% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Newman sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 90%
- Newman'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 Newman is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Newman compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Newman's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
87 Top 13% score exceeds 87% 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%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Below this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). This entry sits in this band.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Newman's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 47 complete annual observations from 1914 to 2025, NEWMAN warmed at a fitted rate of 0.18°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Newman primary station fitted change +0.19 °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 | 60°F (16°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 2.7" | 0.0" | 8.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 67°F (19°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 2.2" | 0.0" | 2.6 | 0.0 |
| March | 73°F (23°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 1.8" | 0.0" | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| April | 80°F (27°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 0.9 | 2.9 |
| May | 88°F (31°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 11.4 |
| June | 96°F (35°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 21.8 |
| July | 100°F (38°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 29.1 |
| August | 98°F (37°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 27.2 |
| September | 95°F (35°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 21.3 |
| October | 85°F (30°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 6.8 |
| November | 71°F (22°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 2.2 | 0.0 |
| December | 60°F (16°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 2.1" | 0.0" | 8.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Newman runs from a mild 37°F around December 20 to 100°F at the peak near July 12, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from May 25 through October 4, covering 133 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs February 28 to November 16.
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.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 37°F around December 20.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is January 6, when 35% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 27 at 0%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 55 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 28 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 39°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Newman.
Where Newman Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 133 days a year the normal daily high itself reaches 90°F — a count fewer than one station in ten exceeds.
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 12 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Newman 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
11.4 days with precipitation
9.8 days with precipitation
7.8 days with precipitation
4.4 days with precipitation
2.4 days with precipitation
0.6 days with precipitation
0.1 days with precipitation
0.1 days with precipitation
0.6 days with precipitation
2.8 days with precipitation
5.6 days with precipitation
9.0 days with precipitation
Newman's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 60% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 1%. 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 31.7°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- January, 2.7"
- Driest month
- August, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- January, February, December (60% 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 Newman's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 55 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 11.7" between them, or roughly 0.21 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.
Newman's record shows no measurable snowfall
This station measured snowfall across the 1991-2020 period and recorded none: the annual normal is 0.0 inches. That is a measured zero rather than missing data, which is a meaningful distinction here , most stations in the database simply do not report snow at all, and those pages say nothing about it.
A thirty-year normal of zero describes the typical year at this station. It is not a claim that snow has never fallen in the area.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 29
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
February 26
50% probability date
Growing Season
276 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
1,960
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,988
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Newman 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 (65°F here).
- Ballinger, TX 65°F · 0.0°F off
- Boyce, LA 65°F · 0.0°F off
- Cleburne, TX 65°F · 0.0°F off
- Decatur, TX 65°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (11.7" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Virginia City, NV 11.7" · 0.0" off
- Ephraim, UT 11.7" · 0.0" off
- El Rito, NM 11.7" · 0.0" off
- Fairbanks, AK 11.7" · 0.0" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Newman's limited precipitation lands
mixed demand · dry · mid swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 11.7 inches annually, within PlainClimate's dry band. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. The monthly distribution matters because the total alone does not reveal the timing.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Newman's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 31.7°F. The annual average is 65°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Newman's normal, at 1,960 and 1,988 degree days respectively. Neither total exceeds the other by more than two to one, so the record is better read as a mixed-demand calendar than as heating-led or cooling-led.
Newman has a long frost-free window of roughly 276 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
Newman wettest normal
January
January concentrates the scarce annual total (11.7 inches).
Newman driest normal
July
July 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 Newman's primary station: NEWMAN (USC00046168). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as an incorporated place (GEOID 0651140). Match rule for Newman: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Newman 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.