Oak City, UT Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Oak City's primary NOAA station, OAK CITY.
The climate verdict for Oak City
Dryness leads the climate profile for Oak City, Utah, with 13.9 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 52°F. At 49/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 18% of scores.
- 52°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 13.9"
- annual precipitation · 33" snow
- 164 days
- frost-free growing season
Oak City: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00426357 · Oak City, UT 52°F mean · 13.9" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 52°F
- RANK-MID #3,431
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Harlan County L…
- PRCP-DRY 13.9"
- SWING-WIDE 50°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,782 HDD
- STN-1 USC00426357
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Harlan County Lake, NE (+ 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 UT station list.
- Hot Huntington, OR 53°F
- Oak City (this station) 52°F
- Cold McCook, NE 52°F
- Near Harlan County L…, NE 52°F
- Near Hill City, KS 52°F
Climate Living Index · Oak City
Oak City: 33/100 · grade F
Oak City publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Oak City, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 52.3°F · 15.2° from 67.5°F | 50/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 164 days/year | 37/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 33.3 inches/year | 35/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 13.9 in · 21.1 from 35 in | 24/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 190 calendar days | 19/100 · F |
Oak City · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Oak City'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
- 78.8°F
- Coldest month
- 29.3°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 Oak City sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Oak City's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 50th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 85%
- Oak City's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 79%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Oak City is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Oak City compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Oak City's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
49 18th percentile score exceeds 18% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Above this entry.
- 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
Oak City's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 79 complete annual observations from 1907 to 2025, OAK CITY warmed at a fitted rate of 0.13°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Oak City primary station fitted change +0.13 °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 | 39°F (4°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 29°F (-1°C) | 1.3" | 7.2" | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 44°F (7°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 1.3" | 6.5" | 23.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 55°F (13°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.8" | 5.9" | 18.2 | 0.0 |
| April | 61°F (16°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 1.8" | 2.8" | 10.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 73°F (23°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 1.4" | 0.1" | 1.3 | 1.0 |
| June | 85°F (29°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 11.6 |
| July | 93°F (34°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 25.0 |
| August | 91°F (33°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 21.5 |
| September | 81°F (27°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 4.6 |
| October | 66°F (19°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 1.4" | 0.4" | 5.4 | 0.3 |
| November | 51°F (10°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 1.0" | 3.6" | 19.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 39°F (4°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 29°F (-1°C) | 1.4" | 6.8" | 27.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Oak City works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 94°F by July 21 and hold at or above 90°F on 53 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 137 dates, bottoming at 19°F around December 21.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 30 through August 21, covering 53 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 10 to October 7.
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
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 21, then returns to freezing around November 6, covering 137 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 April 21, when 23% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 29 at 8%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 61 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 Oak City.
Where Oak City Stands Nationally
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 14 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Oak City 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: 7.2"
6.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.5"
5.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.9"
6.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.8"
6.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
6.6 days with precipitation
2.9 days with precipitation
3.0 days with precipitation
3.3 days with precipitation
3.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
4.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.6"
4.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.8"
5.7 days with precipitation
Oak City spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 12% of the annual total and December through February 28%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Oak City has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 49.5°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: March averages 1.8" and July 0.4". The three wettest months together take 37% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
How Oak City's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 60 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 13.9" between them, or roughly 0.23 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 Oak City
Oak City averages 33.3 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 14 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: 33.3 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 14 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 24% 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 13
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 2
50% probability date
Growing Season
164 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,782
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,185
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside UT closest to Oak City 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 (52°F here).
- Albany, MO 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Avondale, PA 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Benkelman, NE 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Bremerton, WA 52°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (13.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Gardiner, MT 13.9" · 0.0" off
- Winston, NM 13.9" · 0.0" off
- Galena, AK 13.9" · 0.0" off
- College, AK 13.9" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Oak City
heating led · dry · mid swing
Oak City's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,782 annual heating degree days against 1,185 for cooling. Its 49.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Oak City's frost-free season lasts about 164 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. Oak City coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 29°F (-1°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Oak City typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Oak City snow peak
January
Oak City averages 33.3 inches of snow a year, with January 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 Oak City's primary station: OAK CITY (USC00426357). 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 4955430). Match rule for Oak City: 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 Oak City 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.