Perry Lake, KS 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 Perry Lake's primary NOAA station, PERRY LAKE.
The climate verdict for Perry Lake
Perry Lake, Kansas has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 54°F. Its climate comfort score of 68/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 56% of station-mapped location scores.
- 54°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 68/100
- comfort score, above 56% of station-mapped location scores
- 39.2"
- annual precipitation · 12" snow
- 194 days
- frost-free growing season
Perry Lake: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00146333 · Perry Lake, KS 54°F mean · 39.2" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 54°F
- RANK-MID #3,842
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Eskridge
- PRCP-MID 39.2"
- SWING-WIDE 50°F
- COMF-MID 68/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,321 HDD
- STN-1 USC00146333
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Eskridge, KS (+ 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 KS station list.
- Perry Lake (this station) 54°F
- Cold Kearney, MO 54°F
- Hot Hanksville, UT 54°F
- Near Eskridge, KS 54°F
- Near Quincy Dam, IL 54°F
Climate Living Index · Perry Lake
Perry Lake: 65/100 · grade C
Perry Lake publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Perry Lake, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 68/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 39.2 in · 4.2 from 35 in | 85/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 117 calendar days | 66/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 194 days/year | 60/100 · C |
| Snowfall burden | 12.4 inches/year | 60/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 53.8°F · 13.7° from 67.5°F | 55/100 · C |
Perry Lake · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Perry Lake is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 27.6°F and warmest-month mean 77.8°F place this station in continental, no dry season, hot summer climates (Dfa). Class Dfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 77.8°F
- Coldest month
- 27.6°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 Perry Lake sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Perry Lake's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 56th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 56th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 81%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Perry Lake is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Perry Lake compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Perry Lake'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
Perry Lake's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 40 complete annual observations from 1969 to 2024, PERRY LAKE warmed at a fitted rate of 0.20°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Perry Lake primary station fitted change +0.20 °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 | 37°F (3°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 1.0" | 4.5" | 28.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 43°F (6°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 1.3" | 3.2" | 23.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 54°F (12°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 2.4" | 0.8" | 15.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 64°F (18°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 3.9" | 0.1" | 4.5 | 0.1 |
| May | 73°F (23°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 5.5" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.9 |
| June | 83°F (28°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 5.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 6.8 |
| July | 87°F (31°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 78°F (25°C) | 4.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 13.9 |
| August | 87°F (30°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 76°F (25°C) | 4.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 12.6 |
| September | 79°F (26°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 4.0" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 4.0 |
| October | 67°F (19°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 2.9" | 0.2" | 3.5 | 0.4 |
| November | 53°F (11°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.9" | 0.1" | 15.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 41°F (5°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 1.6" | 3.5" | 26.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 88°F around July 27, short of 90°F on every date, while 117 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 18°F near January 16.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 13, then returns to freezing around November 18, covering 117 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 May 4, when 41% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 12 at 14%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 98 wet dates a year.
The widest day
October 6 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 23°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Perry Lake.
Where Perry Lake Stands Nationally
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 23°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Perry Lake 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: 4.5"
4.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.2"
4.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.8"
7.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
11.3 days with precipitation
12.4 days with precipitation
10.9 days with precipitation
9.9 days with precipitation
9.7 days with precipitation
9.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
7.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
5.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.5"
4.9 days with precipitation
Perry Lake runs a summer-peaked wet season
38% of Perry Lake's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is June at 5.5", on a wide 50.2°F gap between its warmest and coldest month. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: June, May, July, taking 40% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: January at 1.0".
- Winter share: 10% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
When it rains in Perry Lake, it arrives in quantity
39.2" of precipitation falls across only about 98 wet days here, averaging 0.40 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 98 a year, 27% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.40 inches
- Most wet days
- May, about 12
- Fewest wet days
- January, about 4
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Winter brings real snow to Perry Lake
Perry Lake averages 12.4 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 7 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: 12.4 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 7 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 3% 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 24
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 13
50% probability date
Growing Season
194 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,321
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,277
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside KS closest to Perry Lake 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 (54°F here).
- Ashland, KY 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Cheviot, OH 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Kent, WA 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Leitchfield, KY 54°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (39.2" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Waukon, IA 39.2" · 0.0" off
- Coggon, IA 39.1" · 0.0" off
- Boone, IA 39.1" · 0.0" off
- Bethany, MO 39.1" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Perry Lake
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Perry Lake's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,321 annual heating degree days against 1,277 for cooling. Its 50.2°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Perry Lake's frost-free season lasts about 194 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. Perry Lake coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 28°F (-2°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Perry Lake typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Perry Lake snow peak
January
Perry Lake averages 12.4 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 Perry Lake's primary station: PERRY LAKE (USC00146333). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Perry Lake; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Perry Lake 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.