Pratt, KS Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Pratt's primary NOAA station, PRATT 3NW.
The climate verdict for Pratt
Pratt, Kansas has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 55°F. It scores 78/100 for climate comfort (good), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 72% of them.
- 55°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 78/100
- comfort score, above 72% of station-mapped location scores
- 27.6"
- annual precipitation · 15" snow
- 183 days
- frost-free growing season
Pratt: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00146549 · Pratt, KS 55°F mean · 27.6" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-TOP · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 55°F
- RANK-UPPER #4,185
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lawrence
- PRCP-MID 27.6"
- SWING-WIDE 48°F
- COMF-TOP 78/100
- LOAD-HEAT 4,989 HDD
- STN-1 USC00146549
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Lawrence Muni, 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.
- Pratt (this station) 55°F
- Cold Saverton L&d, MO 55°F
- Hot Wilmore, KS 55°F
- Near Lawrence, KS 55°F
- Near Olathe Johnson…, KS 55°F
Climate Living Index · Pratt
Pratt: 52/100 · grade D
Pratt publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Pratt, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 78/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 27.6 in · 7.4 from 35 in | 74/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 55.2°F · 12.3° from 67.5°F | 60/100 · C |
| Snowfall burden | 15.1 inches/year | 56/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 183 days/year | 52/100 · D |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 176 calendar days | 28/100 · F |
Pratt · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Pratt is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 31.1°F and warmest-month mean 79.2°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
- 79.2°F
- Coldest month
- 31.1°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 Pratt sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Pratt's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 61st percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 37th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 74%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Pratt is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Pratt compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Pratt's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
78 Top 28% score exceeds 72% 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%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Pratt's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 74 complete annual observations from 1896 to 2023, PRATT 3NW warmed at a fitted rate of 0.08°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Pratt primary station fitted change +0.08 °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 | 43°F (6°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 0.6" | 3.6" | 28.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 48°F (9°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 1.0" | 3.9" | 23.1 | 0.0 |
| March | 58°F (14°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 2.0" | 4.1" | 16.8 | 0.0 |
| April | 67°F (19°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 2.7" | 0.4" | 5.2 | 0.8 |
| May | 77°F (25°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 3.0 |
| June | 87°F (30°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 4.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 13.4 |
| July | 92°F (33°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 3.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 21.0 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 65°F (19°C) | 78°F (25°C) | 3.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 18.2 |
| September | 82°F (28°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 2.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 8.0 |
| October | 70°F (21°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 2.2" | 0.1" | 3.7 | 1.3 |
| November | 56°F (13°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.2" | 0.4" | 16.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 45°F (7°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 1.1" | 2.6" | 28.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Pratt works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 92°F by July 20 and hold at or above 90°F on 48 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 128 dates, bottoming at 19°F around January 11.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 30 through August 16, covering 48 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 28 to October 15.
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 18, then returns to freezing around November 12, covering 128 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 June 2, when 25% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 11 at 7%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 57 wet dates a year.
The widest day
March 28 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 27°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Pratt.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 3.6"
2.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.9"
3.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.1"
4.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
6.0 days with precipitation
7.3 days with precipitation
7.2 days with precipitation
5.8 days with precipitation
6.1 days with precipitation
4.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
4.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
3.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.6"
2.9 days with precipitation
Pratt runs a summer-peaked wet season
39% of Pratt'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 4.1", on a wide 48.1°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, August, taking 41% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: January at 0.6".
- 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 Pratt, it arrives in quantity
27.6" of precipitation falls across only about 57 wet days here, averaging 0.48 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 57 a year, 16% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.48 inches
- Most wet days
- May, about 7
- Fewest wet days
- January, about 2
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 Pratt
Pratt averages 15.1 inches of snowfall a year, with March the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 5 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: 15.1 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 5 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 20
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 20
50% probability date
Growing Season
183 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,989
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,442
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside KS closest to Pratt 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 (55°F here).
- Augusta, KY 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Ava, MO 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Brandenburg, KY 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Brevard, NC 55°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (27.6" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Hammon, OK 27.6" · 0.0" off
- Holdrege, NE 27.6" · 0.0" off
- Cook, MN 27.7" · 0.0" off
- Story, WY 27.7" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Pratt
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Pratt's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 4,989 annual heating degree days against 1,442 for cooling. Its 48.1°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Pratt's frost-free season lasts about 183 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. Pratt coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 31°F (0°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Pratt typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Pratt snow peak
March
Pratt averages 15.1 inches of snow a year, with March 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 Pratt's primary station: PRATT 3NW (USC00146549). 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 2057625). Match rule for Pratt: 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 Pratt 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.