Queen Creek, Arizona climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Queen Creek's center at January lows of 41°F and July highs of 105°F, a yearly mean of 71.6°F and 9.2 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Chandler (5 miles SW, 1,425 ft), has January lows of 41°F and July highs of 104°F.
83,781 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 67° 41°
- Feb 70° 43°
- Mar 77° 47°
- Apr 85° 53°
- May 94° 61°
- Jun 103° 70°
- Jul 105° 78°
- Aug 103° 77°
- Sep 99° 71°
- Oct 88° 59°
- Nov 76° 47°
- Dec 66° 40°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
The months above are NOAA's gridded normals at Queen Creek's center.
What is each month like in Queen Creek?
NOAA's grid estimates the normals every 5 km or so from the stations around each point, terrain included. It smooths between stations, so night lows at the heart of a large city can run warmer than the grid shows: at five big-city airports we compared, the grid's highs were within about 1°F of the station and its lows 1-6°F cooler. The nearest record's high and low are beside each month.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Chandler high | Chandler low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 67°F | 41°F | 53.7°F | 1.10 | 66°F | 41°F |
| February | 70°F | 43°F | 56.6°F | 1.22 | 70°F | 43°F |
| March | 77°F | 47°F | 62.3°F | 1.01 | 77°F | 48°F |
| April | 85°F | 53°F | 68.9°F | 0.29 | 85°F | 53°F |
| May | 94°F | 61°F | 77.5°F | 0.22 | 93°F | 62°F |
| June | 103°F | 70°F | 86.6°F | 0.05 | 103°F | 71°F |
| July | 105°F | 78°F | 91.5°F | 1.02 | 104°F | 79°F |
| August | 103°F | 77°F | 90.1°F | 1.24 | 103°F | 78°F |
| September | 99°F | 71°F | 85.0°F | 0.82 | 98°F | 72°F |
| October | 88°F | 59°F | 73.5°F | 0.57 | 87°F | 59°F |
| November | 76°F | 47°F | 61.4°F | 0.65 | 74°F | 47°F |
| December | 66°F | 40°F | 52.7°F | 1.03 | 64°F | 39°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 22.0°C, January lows of 5°C, July highs of 41°C and 234 mm of precipitation a year.
Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Monthly Gridded Climate Normals 1991-2020 (nClimGrid, accession 0245564); NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 station normals. The grid cell holding the city's Census center point.
What do the station records around Queen Creek say?
Each row is a NOAA station's own 1991-2020 normals, with the snow and frost dates the grid does not give. A record downhill or nearer the coast than the city can run warmer, one uphill cooler: compare the elevations.
| Record | Where | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChandlerChandler Heights | 5 mi SW | 1,425 ft | 71.4°F | 41°F | 104°F | – | – | February 1 |
| MesaEast Mesa | 13 mi N | 1,518 ft | 72.2°F | 41°F | 106°F | 10.8 | – | February 1 |
| Apache Junction5 mi NE | 17 mi NE | 2,070 ft | 71.9°F | 43°F | 105°F | 12.6 | 0 | February 11 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals; place center and population: Census Bureau 2024. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
How much snow, how late a frost, what zone and how much sun in Queen Creek?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Chandler (5 miles SW, 1,425 ft). NOAA publishes no snowfall normal for it; the nearest record that has one, Apache Junction (17 miles NE), gets 0 inches a year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after February 1 in half of years and the first autumn frost before December 11. Its record high is 117°F (1990) and its record low 14°F (1971) (kept since 1941).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Queen Creek in zone 9b across its 2 ZIP code areas.
Over a year 91% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (5.8 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); June is the sunniest month (97%) and December the cloudiest (84%).
Chandler's page has its months, frost probabilities, records by month and recent years. NOAA's grid has monthly figures only, so there are no day-by-day month pages for Queen Creek; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USC00021514; records: ACIS; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; sunshine: NASA POWER.
How does the climate vary across Queen Creek, ZIP code by ZIP code?
2 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Queen Creek. On NOAA's grid 85142 is the warmest (71.7°F a year) and 85140 the coolest (71.5°F), so the city is nearly uniform. Each row also names the nearest station record and its frost dates.
| ZIP code | Zone | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Nearest record | Last frost | First frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85140 | 9b | 71.5°F | 41°F | 105°F | 10.3 | Chandler (11 mi) | February 1 | December 11 |
| 85142 | 9b | 71.7°F | 41°F | 105°F | 8.9 | Chandler (1 mi) | February 1 | December 11 |
Source: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file and ZCTA centers; NOAA NCEI gridded and station normals, 1991-2020. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) is in the city; its figures are the grid cell at its center; frost dates are the nearest record's medians of 32°F.