Packwood, WA 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 Packwood's primary NOAA station, PACKWOOD.
The climate verdict for Packwood
Water is the standout signal in Packwood, Washington: 58.4 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 51°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.
- 51°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 58.4"
- annual precipitation · 32" snow
- 161 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Packwood: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00456262 · Packwood, WA 51°F mean · 58.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 51°F
- RANK-MID #2,882
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Oakridge Fish H…
- PRCP-WET 58.4"
- SWING-NARROW 29°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,482 HDD
- STN-1 USC00456262
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Oakridge Fish Hatchery, OR (+ 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 WA station list.
- Packwood (this station) 51°F
- Hot Mckenzie Rvr Ra…, OR 51°F
- Near Oakridge Fish H…, OR 51°F
- Cold Cascadia, OR 50°F
- Near Palmer, WA 50°F
Climate Living Index · Packwood
Packwood: 48/100 · grade D
Packwood publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Packwood, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 85 calendar days | 81/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 50.5°F · 17.0° from 67.5°F | 43/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 31.5 inches/year | 37/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 161 days/year | 34/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 58.4 in · 23.4 from 35 in | 17/100 · F |
Packwood · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Packwood is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 36.8°F and warmest-month mean 65.9°F place this station in temperate, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Csb). Class Csb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Csb
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 65.9°F
- Coldest month
- 36.8°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 Packwood sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Packwood's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 42nd percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 7% wettest
- Packwood's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 91%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Packwood is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Packwood compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Packwood'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
Packwood's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 37 complete annual observations from 1957 to 2019, PACKWOOD warmed at a fitted rate of 0.16°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Packwood primary station fitted change +0.16 °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 | 44°F (7°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 8.9" | 13.4" | 16.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 49°F (9°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 6.0" | 2.6" | 15.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 53°F (12°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 6.1" | 3.3" | 12.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 59°F (15°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 4.0" | 0.4" | 4.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 67°F (19°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 2.9" | 0.0" | 1.3 | 0.6 |
| June | 71°F (22°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 2.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.1 |
| July | 79°F (26°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.9 |
| August | 80°F (26°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.9 |
| September | 74°F (23°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 2.3" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| October | 61°F (16°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 6.0" | 0.0" | 5.4 | 0.0 |
| November | 49°F (10°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 9.4" | 2.5" | 10.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 43°F (6°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 9.2" | 9.3" | 16.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 81°F around July 26, short of 90°F on every date, while 85 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 30°F near December 24.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into February 27, then returns to freezing around December 5, covering 85 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 November 24, when 65% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 29 at 11%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 169 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 5 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 28°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Packwood.
Where Packwood Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 58 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Packwood 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: 13.4"
19.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.6"
16.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.3"
19.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
17.8 days with precipitation
14.4 days with precipitation
10.9 days with precipitation
3.9 days with precipitation
4.2 days with precipitation
7.5 days with precipitation
15.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.5"
19.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 9.3"
19.0 days with precipitation
Packwood's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 41% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 6%. 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 29.1°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- November, 9.4"
- Driest month
- July, 0.7"
- Wettest three months
- November, December, January (47% 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 Packwood's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 168 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 58.4" between them, or roughly 0.35 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 Packwood
Packwood averages 31.5 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 11 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: 31.5 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 11 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 5% 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 8
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 30
50% probability date
Growing Season
161 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,482
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
200
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WA closest to Packwood 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 (51°F here).
- Chenoa, IL 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Columbus, NE 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Coos Bay, OR 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Crook, CO 51°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (58.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Murfreesboro, AR 58.4" · 0.0" off
- Summerville, GA 58.3" · 0.0" off
- Bastrop, LA 58.4" · 0.0" off
- Ocracoke, NC 58.3" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Packwood
heating led · wet · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Packwood, at 5,482 degree days versus 200 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 29.1°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
Packwood's frost-free season lasts about 161 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. Packwood coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 37°F (3°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Packwood typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Packwood snow peak
January
Packwood averages 31.5 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 Packwood's primary station: PACKWOOD (USC00456262). 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 5352600), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Packwood: 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 Packwood 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.