Parkdale, OR Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Parkdale's primary NOAA station, PARKDALE 1 NNE.
The climate verdict for Parkdale
Parkdale, Oregon has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 48°F. At 54/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 48°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 54/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 36.0"
- annual precipitation · 54" snow
- 143 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Parkdale: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00356466 · Parkdale, OR 48°F mean · 36.0" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 48°F
- RANK-COOL #2,127
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Grant Grove
- PRCP-MID 36.0"
- SWING-MID 32°F
- COMF-LOW 54/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,378 HDD
- STN-1 USC00356466
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Grant Grove, CA (+ 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 OR station list.
- Parkdale (this station) 48°F
- Cold Grandfather Mtn, NC 48°F
- Hot Tolt S Fork Rsvr, WA 48°F
- Near Grant Grove, CA 48°F
- Near Lake Spaulding, CA 48°F
Climate Living Index · Parkdale
Parkdale: 48/100 · grade D
Parkdale publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Parkdale, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 54/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 36.0 in · 1.0 from 35 in | 94/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 130 calendar days | 59/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 47.8°F · 19.7° from 67.5°F | 31/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 143 days/year | 20/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 53.9 inches/year | 19/100 · F |
Parkdale · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Parkdale is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 32.8°F and warmest-month mean 64.3°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
- 64.3°F
- Coldest month
- 32.8°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 Parkdale sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Parkdale's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 31st percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 50th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 88%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Parkdale is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Parkdale compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Parkdale's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
54 31st percentile score exceeds 31% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 40°F (4°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 5.6" | 16.6" | 24.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 44°F (7°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 4.0" | 8.8" | 20.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 51°F (11°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 3.6" | 4.1" | 18.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 57°F (14°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 2.3" | 1.0" | 11.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 65°F (18°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 1.7" | 0.0" | 4.3 | 0.2 |
| June | 71°F (22°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 1.0 |
| July | 80°F (26°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 6.4 |
| August | 79°F (26°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 4.9 |
| September | 73°F (23°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 1.1 | 0.8 |
| October | 60°F (16°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 3.2" | 0.2" | 9.5 | 0.0 |
| November | 46°F (8°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 6.0" | 5.0" | 17.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 38°F (3°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 6.9" | 18.2" | 26.2 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 82°F around July 25, short of 90°F on every date, while 130 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 27°F near December 25.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 19, then returns to freezing around November 11, covering 130 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 22, when 59% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 26 at 7%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 127 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 25 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 32°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Parkdale.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 16.6"
16.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.8"
12.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.1"
14.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.0"
13.3 days with precipitation
9.8 days with precipitation
6.6 days with precipitation
2.1 days with precipitation
2.5 days with precipitation
4.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
11.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.0"
17.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 18.2"
16.7 days with precipitation
Parkdale'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 5%. 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 31.5°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 6.9"
- Driest month
- July, 0.3"
- Wettest three months
- December, November, January (51% 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 Parkdale's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 126 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 36.0" between them, or roughly 0.29 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 Parkdale
Parkdale averages 53.9 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 23 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: 53.9 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 23 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 15% 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 3
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 13
50% probability date
Growing Season
143 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,378
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
132
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside OR closest to Parkdale 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 (48°F here).
- Alliance, NE 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Broadwater, NE 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Chugwater, WY 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Colo, IA 48°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (36.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Belle Plaine, IA 36.0" · 0.0" off
- Butternut, WI 36.0" · 0.0" off
- Tecumseh, MI 36.0" · 0.0" off
- Centerville, IA 36.0" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Parkdale
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Parkdale's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,378 annual heating degree days against 132 for cooling. Its 31.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 143 days are frost-free in a normal year. That short interval is consistent with the cold-season signal, but the measure does not predict the exact first or last freeze in any one year.
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1. Parkdale coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 33°F (0°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Parkdale typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Parkdale snow peak
December
Parkdale averages 53.9 inches of snow a year, with December 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 Parkdale's primary station: PARKDALE 1 NNE (USC00356466). 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 4156500), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Parkdale: 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 Parkdale 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.