Pahrump, NV Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Pahrump's primary NOAA station, PAHRUMP 4 NW.
The climate verdict for Pahrump
Dryness leads the climate profile for Pahrump, Nevada, with 5.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 62°F. Its climate comfort score of 68/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 56% of station-mapped location scores.
- 62°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 68/100
- comfort score, above 56% of station-mapped location scores
- 5.0"
- precipitation, annual total
- 219 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Pahrump: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00265890 · Pahrump, NV 62°F mean · 5.0" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 62°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,557
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Atlanta Fulton…
- PRCP-ARID 5.0"
- SWING-MID 43°F
- COMF-MID 68/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00265890
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Atlanta Fulton County, GA (+ 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 NV station list.
- Pahrump (this station) 62°F
- Hot Douglas Bisbee…, AZ 62°F
- Near Atlanta Fulton…, GA 62°F
- Near Camp Pendleton…, CA 62°F
- Near Chickasha, OK 62°F
Climate Living Index · Pahrump
Pahrump: 42/100 · grade D
Pahrump publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Pahrump, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 68/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 62.3°F · 5.2° from 67.5°F | 84/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 219 days/year | 77/100 · B |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 206 calendar days | 11/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 5.0 in · 30.0 from 35 in | 1/100 · F |
Pahrump · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Pahrump's normals sit in a dry climate class: BWk
Annual precipitation falls well below the aridity threshold for this temperature regime, so the normals classify as cold desert (BWk). Class BWk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold desert.
- Köppen code
- BWk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 84.6°F
- Coldest month
- 41.8°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 · balanced station
Where Pahrump sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Pahrump's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 19% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Pahrump sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 99%
- Pahrump's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 48th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Pahrump compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Pahrump's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
68 Top 44% score exceeds 56% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Pahrump's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 39 complete annual observations from 1949 to 2022, PAHRUMP 4 NW warmed at a fitted rate of 0.33°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Pahrump primary station fitted change +0.33 °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 | 58°F (14°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 0.7" | 23.4 | 0.0 |
| February | 62°F (17°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 0.9" | 14.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 69°F (20°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 0.6" | 5.1 | 0.1 |
| April | 76°F (24°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 0.3" | 0.5 | 1.7 |
| May | 85°F (29°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 0.2" | 0.1 | 10.9 |
| June | 95°F (35°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 78°F (26°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 24.3 |
| July | 101°F (39°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 85°F (29°C) | 0.4" | 0.0 | 30.5 |
| August | 100°F (38°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 83°F (28°C) | 0.2" | 0.0 | 30.4 |
| September | 93°F (34°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 0.4" | 0.0 | 23.0 |
| October | 81°F (27°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.4" | 0.9 | 5.3 |
| November | 67°F (20°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 0.2" | 11.2 | 0.0 |
| December | 57°F (14°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 0.7" | 23.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Pahrump works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 102°F by July 21 and hold at or above 90°F on 117 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 89 dates, bottoming at 26°F around December 17.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from May 31 through September 24, covering 117 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 21 to November 10.
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 16, then returns to freezing around November 20, covering 89 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 February 17, when 14% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 10 at 2%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 26 wet dates a year.
The widest day
October 1 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 36°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Pahrump.
Where Pahrump Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 117 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 5 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Pahrump earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
3.6 days with precipitation
4.0 days with precipitation
3.3 days with precipitation
2.2 days with precipitation
1.4 days with precipitation
0.5 days with precipitation
2.0 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
1.4 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
1.5 days with precipitation
3.0 days with precipitation
Pahrump's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 46% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 13%. 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 42.8°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 0.9"
- Driest month
- June, 0.1"
- Wettest three months
- February, January, December (46% 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.
Pahrump is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 26 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 7% of the calendar, and they carry 5.0" between them. At roughly 0.19 inches on an average wet day, this is not the damp drizzle of a marine climate; it is an arid record in which precipitation is both uncommon and light when it appears.
The wettest month by count is February at about 4 wet days; the driest is June at about 1.
A low per-event average in a dry record is a statement about typical days only. Arid regions can still take a large share of a year's total from a single convective storm, which a normal cannot show.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, not the extremes within it.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 3
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 29
50% probability date
Growing Season
219 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,078
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
2,129
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Pahrump 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 (62°F here).
- Dunn, NC 62°F · 0.0°F off
- Elizabeth City, NC 62°F · 0.0°F off
- Houston, MS 62°F · 0.0°F off
- Madera, CA 62°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (5.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Barstow, CA 5.0" · 0.0" off
- Bishop, CA 4.8" · 0.1" off
- Palm Springs, CA 5.1" · 0.1" off
- Quartzsite, AZ 4.6" · 0.4" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Pahrump's limited precipitation lands
mixed demand · dry · mid swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 5.0 inches annually, within PlainClimate's dry band. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. 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 Pahrump's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 42.8°F. The annual average is 62°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Pahrump's normal, at 3,078 and 2,129 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.
A roughly 219-day frost-free season sits inside this mixed heating-and-cooling profile. Start and end dates matter because both sides of the thermostat register during a normal year.
Pahrump wettest normal
February
February concentrates the scarce annual total (5.0 inches).
Pahrump driest normal
June
June 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 Pahrump's primary station: PAHRUMP 4 NW (USC00265890). 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 3253800), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Pahrump: 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 Pahrump 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.