Plainville, KS 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 Plainville's primary NOAA station, PLAINVILLE 4WNW.
The climate verdict for Plainville
Plainville, Kansas has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 53°F. Its climate comfort score of 64/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 49% of station-mapped location scores.
- 53°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 64/100
- comfort score, above 49% of station-mapped location scores
- 26.1"
- annual precipitation · 20" snow
- 180 days
- frost-free growing season
Plainville: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00146435 · Plainville, KS 53°F mean · 26.1" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 53°F
- RANK-MID #3,705
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Oakley
- PRCP-MID 26.1"
- SWING-WIDE 49°F
- COMF-MID 64/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,487 HDD
- STN-1 USC00146435
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Oakley, KS ( -0.1 °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.
- Hot Bison, KS 54°F
- Plainville (this station) 53°F
- Cold Oakley, KS 53°F
- Near Grand Junction…, CO 53°F
- Near Cottonwood Weir, UT 53°F
Climate Living Index · Plainville
Plainville: 46/100 · grade D
Plainville publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Plainville, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 64/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 26.1 in · 8.9 from 35 in | 69/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 53.3°F · 14.2° from 67.5°F | 54/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 180 days/year | 50/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 19.7 inches/year | 49/100 · D |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 183 calendar days | 23/100 · F |
Plainville · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Plainville is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 29.3°F and warmest-month mean 78.2°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
- 78.2°F
- Coldest month
- 29.3°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 Plainville sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Plainville's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 54th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 36th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 77%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Plainville is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Plainville compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Plainville's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
64 49th percentile score exceeds 49% 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
Plainville's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 74 complete annual observations from 1918 to 2025, PLAINVILLE 4WNW warmed at a fitted rate of 0.07°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Plainville primary station fitted change +0.07 °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 | 41°F (5°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 29°F (-1°C) | 0.6" | 4.8" | 30.1 | 0.0 |
| February | 45°F (7°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 0.8" | 5.4" | 26.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 56°F (13°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 1.4" | 2.0" | 20.8 | 0.1 |
| April | 65°F (19°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 2.2" | 1.2" | 8.6 | 0.7 |
| May | 75°F (24°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 4.1" | 0.1" | 0.5 | 2.7 |
| June | 86°F (30°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 3.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 11.6 |
| July | 91°F (33°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 78°F (26°C) | 4.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 18.4 |
| August | 89°F (32°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 76°F (25°C) | 3.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 14.9 |
| September | 81°F (27°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 2.2" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 7.3 |
| October | 69°F (20°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 1.7" | 0.6" | 5.3 | 1.1 |
| November | 55°F (13°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 1.1" | 1.9" | 20.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 43°F (6°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 0.9" | 3.7" | 29.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Plainville works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 92°F by July 15 and hold at or above 90°F on 41 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 142 dates, bottoming at 17°F around January 11.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 30 through August 9, covering 41 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 4 to October 12.
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 March 26, then returns to freezing around November 6, covering 142 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 25, when 30% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 19 at 11%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 71 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 1 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 29°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Plainville.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 4.8"
3.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.4"
3.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.0"
5.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.2"
7.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
9.3 days with precipitation
8.6 days with precipitation
7.9 days with precipitation
7.8 days with precipitation
5.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
5.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.9"
4.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.7"
3.7 days with precipitation
Plainville runs a summer-peaked wet season
42% of Plainville'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 May at 4.1", on a wide 48.9°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: May, July, August, taking 45% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: January at 0.6".
- Winter share: 9% 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 Plainville, it arrives in quantity
26.1" of precipitation falls across only about 71 wet days here, averaging 0.37 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 71 a year, 20% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.37 inches
- Most wet days
- May, about 9
- Fewest wet days
- January, about 3
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 Plainville
Plainville averages 19.7 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 12 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: 19.7 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 12 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 8% 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 20
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 23
50% probability date
Growing Season
180 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,487
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 Plainville 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 (53°F here).
- Bowling Green, MO 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Corona, NM 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Holly, CO 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Lancaster, PA 53°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (26.1" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Childress, TX 26.1" · 0.0" off
- Freedom, OK 26.1" · 0.0" off
- Berkeley, CA 26.1" · 0.0" off
- Moorhead, MN 26.1" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Plainville
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Plainville's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,487 annual heating degree days against 1,277 for cooling. Its 48.9°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Plainville's frost-free season lasts about 180 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. Plainville coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 29°F (-1°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Plainville typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Plainville snow peak
February
Plainville averages 19.7 inches of snow a year, with February 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 Plainville's primary station: PLAINVILLE 4WNW (USC00146435). 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 an incorporated place (GEOID 2056150). Match rule for Plainville: 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 Plainville 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.