Oak Creek Canyon, AZ Climate: Temperature by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Oak Creek Canyon's primary NOAA station, OAK CREEK CANYON.
The climate verdict for Oak Creek Canyon
Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 58°F. July is the warmest month at 75°F and December the coldest at 41°F.
- 58°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 205 days
- frost-free growing season
Oak Creek Canyon: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00026037 · Oak Creek Canyon, AZ 58°F mean
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-MILD 58°F
- RANK-UPPER #4,665
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Clayton
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 34°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 3,676 HDD
- STN-1 USC00026037
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Clayton, GA (+ 0.2 °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 AZ station list.
- Oak Creek Canyon (this station) 58°F
- Hot Long Creek, SC 58°F
- Near Clayton, GA 58°F
- Cold De Sabla, CA 57°F
- Near Cougar Dam, OR 57°F
Climate Living Index · Oak Creek Canyon
Oak Creek Canyon: 68/100 · grade C
Oak Creek Canyon publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Oak Creek Canyon, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 112 calendar days | 69/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 57.6°F · 9.9° from 67.5°F | 68/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 205 days/year | 68/100 · C |
Oak Creek Canyon · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Oak Creek Canyon sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Oak Creek Canyon are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- 68th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 84%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Oak Creek Canyon is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 54°F (12°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 42°F (5°C) | N/A | 19.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 57°F (14°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 44°F (7°C) | N/A | 14.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 64°F (18°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 49°F (10°C) | N/A | 10.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 70°F (21°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 55°F (13°C) | N/A | 4.1 | 0.0 |
| May | 78°F (25°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 62°F (17°C) | N/A | 0.1 | 1.6 |
| June | 88°F (31°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 71°F (22°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 11.7 |
| July | 90°F (32°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 75°F (24°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 15.6 |
| August | 88°F (31°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 74°F (23°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 11.2 |
| September | 84°F (29°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 69°F (20°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 2.8 |
| October | 74°F (23°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 59°F (15°C) | N/A | 1.2 | 0.0 |
| November | 63°F (17°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 49°F (10°C) | N/A | 8.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 53°F (12°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | N/A | 20.2 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Oak Creek Canyon works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 91°F by July 4 and hold at or above 90°F on 28 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 84 dates, bottoming at 29°F around December 23.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 24 through July 21, covering 28 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 15 to October 27.
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 February 22, then returns to freezing around December 1, covering 84 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
June 10 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 34°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Oak Creek Canyon.
Where Oak Creek Canyon Stands Nationally
Daily temperature swings run wider than most of the country, peaking near 34°F between the normal high and low.
Oak Creek Canyon 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
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 5
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 14
50% probability date
Growing Season
205 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,676
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
995
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AZ closest to Oak Creek Canyon 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 (58°F here).
- Big Water, UT 58°F · 0.0°F off
- Gate, OK 58°F · 0.0°F off
- Gladeville, TN 58°F · 0.0°F off
- Independence, KS 58°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Oak Creek Canyon's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Oak Creek Canyon's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 3,676 annual heating degree days against 995 for cooling. Its 34.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Oak Creek Canyon's frost-free season lasts about 205 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Oak Creek Canyon's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 34.0°F. The annual average is 58°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Oak Creek Canyon's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Oak Creek Canyon'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 Oak Creek Canyon, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Oak Creek Canyon's climate
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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 Creek Canyon's primary station: OAK CREEK CANYON (USC00026037). 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 a census-designated place (GEOID 0450362), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Oak Creek Canyon: 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 Creek Canyon 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.