Quemado, NM Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Quemado's primary NOAA station, QUEMADO.
The climate verdict for Quemado
Dryness leads the climate profile for Quemado, New Mexico, with 11.4 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 49°F. At 54/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 49°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 54/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 11.4"
- annual precipitation · 18" snow
- 120 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Quemado: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00297180 · Quemado, NM 49°F mean · 11.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 49°F
- RANK-COOL #2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Raton Krtn Radio
- PRCP-ARID 11.4"
- SWING-MID 38°F
- COMF-LOW 54/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,210 HDD
- STN-1 USC00297180
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Raton Krtn Radio, NM (+ 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 NM station list.
- Quemado (this station) 49°F
- Hot Blue Ridge Rang…, AZ 49°F
- Near Raton Krtn Radio, NM 49°F
- Near Lee Vining, CA 49°F
- Near Pullman Moscow…, WA 49°F
Climate Living Index · Quemado
Quemado: 23/100 · grade F
Quemado publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Quemado, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 54/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 17.6 inches/year | 52/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 48.5°F · 19.0° from 67.5°F | 34/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 11.4 in · 23.6 from 35 in | 16/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 208 calendar days | 10/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 120 days/year | 7/100 · F |
Quemado · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Quemado's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSk
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: cold semi-arid steppe (BSk). Class BSk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 68.3°F
- Coldest month
- 30.4°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 Quemado sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Quemado's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 34th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 91%
- Quemado's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 73%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Quemado is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Quemado compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Quemado's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
54 31st percentile score exceeds 31% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Above this entry.
- 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 46°F (8°C) | 15°F (-10°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 0.5" | 3.8" | 29.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 50°F (10°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 0.6" | 3.9" | 26.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 58°F (14°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 0.6" | 1.8" | 28.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 66°F (19°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 0.4" | 0.3" | 23.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 75°F (24°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 0.1" | 0.2" | 12.7 | 0.3 |
| June | 84°F (29°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 1.2 | 6.4 |
| July | 85°F (29°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 1.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 7.1 |
| August | 82°F (28°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 2.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.2 |
| September | 77°F (25°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 1.9" | 0.0" | 2.1 | 0.2 |
| October | 68°F (20°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 0.9" | 0.6" | 19.1 | 0.0 |
| November | 56°F (13°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 0.5" | 1.4" | 26.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 46°F (8°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 0.5" | 5.6" | 29.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 85°F around June 26, short of 90°F on every date, while 208 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 14°F near January 1.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 8, then returns to freezing around October 14, covering 208 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 August 4, when 28% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is May 24 at 4%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 42 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 3 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 43°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Quemado.
Where Quemado Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 208 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 11 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Quemado earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 3.8"
2.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.9"
3.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.8"
2.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
1.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
1.4 days with precipitation
1.5 days with precipitation
7.4 days with precipitation
8.9 days with precipitation
4.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
3.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.4"
2.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.6"
3.4 days with precipitation
Quemado runs a summer-peaked wet season
47% of Quemado'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 August at 2.9", on a 37.9°F seasonal spread. 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: August, September, July, taking 59% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: May at 0.1".
- Winter share: 13% 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.
How Quemado's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 42 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 11.4" between them, or roughly 0.27 inches on a typical wet day. That sits in the middle band: neither the many-light-days pattern of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes, nor the few-heavy-events pattern of the Gulf and the desert Southwest.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year and say nothing about the heaviest single storm on record.
Winter brings real snow to Quemado
Quemado averages 17.6 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 8 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: 17.6 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 8 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 15% 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
September 29
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 1
50% probability date
Growing Season
120 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,210
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
233
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NM closest to Quemado 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).
- Butler, PA 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Decorah, IA 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Fredericktown, OH 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 49°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (11.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Jackpot, NV 11.4" · 0.0" off
- Springerville, AZ 11.4" · 0.0" off
- Window Rock, AZ 11.3" · 0.0" off
- Helena, MT 11.4" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Quemado
heating led · dry · mid swing
Quemado's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,210 annual heating degree days against 233 for cooling. Its 37.9°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 120 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.
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1. Quemado coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 30°F (-1°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Quemado typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Quemado snow peak
December
Quemado averages 17.6 inches of snow a year, with December 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 Quemado's primary station: QUEMADO (USC00297180). 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 a census-designated place (GEOID 3560730), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Quemado: 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 Quemado 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.