Purdum, NE Climate: Temperature 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 Purdum's primary NOAA station, PURDUM.
The climate verdict for Purdum
Purdum, Nebraska has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 49°F. July is the warmest month at 74°F and January the coldest at 25°F.
- 49°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 146 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Purdum: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00256970 · Purdum, NE 49°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 49°F
- RANK-COOL #2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Columbus Juncti…
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 49°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 6,684 HDD
- STN-1 USC00256970
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Columbus Junction, IA (+ 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 NE station list.
- Purdum (this station) 49°F
- Cold Antioch, IL 49°F
- Hot Columbus Juncti…, IA 49°F
- Near McHenry -wg Str…, IL 49°F
- Near Thermopolis, WY 49°F
Climate Living Index · Purdum
Purdum: 29/100 · grade F
Purdum publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Purdum, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 48.7°F · 18.8° from 67.5°F | 35/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 178 calendar days | 26/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 146 days/year | 22/100 · F |
Purdum · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Purdum sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Purdum are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- 34th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 78%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Purdum is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Purdum's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 70 complete annual observations from 1904 to 2024, PURDUM warmed at a fitted rate of 0.12°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Purdum primary station fitted change +0.12 °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 | 39°F (4°C) | 11°F (-11°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | N/A | 30.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 42°F (5°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | N/A | 27.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 52°F (11°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 38°F (3°C) | N/A | 24.8 | 0.0 |
| April | 61°F (16°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 47°F (8°C) | N/A | 14.4 | 0.1 |
| May | 71°F (22°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 58°F (14°C) | N/A | 3.0 | 1.1 |
| June | 81°F (27°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 68°F (20°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 4.8 |
| July | 88°F (31°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 74°F (23°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 13.6 |
| August | 86°F (30°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 72°F (22°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 10.4 |
| September | 78°F (26°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 63°F (17°C) | N/A | 1.2 | 4.8 |
| October | 65°F (18°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 49°F (10°C) | N/A | 13.1 | 0.7 |
| November | 51°F (11°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 37°F (3°C) | N/A | 26.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 40°F (5°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | N/A | 30.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 89°F around July 21, short of 90°F on every date, while 178 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 11°F near January 1.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 14, then returns to freezing around October 20, covering 178 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.
The widest day
October 5 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 31°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Purdum.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 2
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 9
50% probability date
Growing Season
146 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,684
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
774
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NE closest to Purdum 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 (49°F here).
- Cuba, NM 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Dove Creek, CO 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Guernsey, WY 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Loveland, CO 49°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Purdum's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Purdum's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,684 annual heating degree days against 774 for cooling. Its 49.2°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 146 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.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Purdum's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 49.2°F. The annual average is 49°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Purdum's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Purdum's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Purdum, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Purdum's climate
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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 Purdum's primary station: PURDUM (USC00256970). 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 Purdum; 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 Purdum 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.