Rainier Paradise Ranger Station, WA 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 Rainier Paradise Ranger Station's primary NOAA station, RAINIER PARADISE RS.
The climate verdict for Rainier Paradise Ranger Station
Water is the standout signal in Rainier Paradise Ranger Station, Washington: 116.4 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 38°F. August is the warmest month at 54°F and December the coldest at 27°F.
- 38°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 116.4"
- annual precipitation
Rainier Paradise Ranger Station: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00456898 · Rainier Paradise Ranger Station, WA 38°F mean · 116.4" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 38°F
- RANK-COOL #206
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Afton
- PRCP-WET 116.4"
- SWING-NARROW 27°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 9,698 HDD
- STN-1 USC00456898
- BOOK-FULL 5/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Afton, WY (+ 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 WA station list.
- Hot Kremmling, CO 39°F
- Near Afton, WY 39°F
- Near Kemmerer, WY 39°F
- Rainier Paradis… (this station) 38°F
- Cold Warren, ID 38°F
Climate Living Index · Rainier Paradise Ranger Station
Rainier Paradise Ranger Station: 5/100 · grade F
Rainier Paradise Ranger Station publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Rainier Paradise Ranger Station, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 206 calendar days | 11/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 38.4°F · 29.1° from 67.5°F | 1/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 116.4 in · 81.4 from 35 in | 0/100 · F |
Rainier Paradise Ranger Station · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
Rainier Paradise Ranger Station is a continental Köppen climate: Dsc
Coldest-month mean 27.3°F and warmest-month mean 54.4°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, cool summer climates (Dsc). Class Dsc is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, cool summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsc
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 54.4°F
- Coldest month
- 27.3°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 Rainier Paradise Ranger Station sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Rainier Paradise Ranger Station's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 97%
- Among 6,861 stations, Rainier Paradise Ranger Station sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 1% wettest
- Rainier Paradise Ranger Station's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 93%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Rainier Paradise Ranger Station is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Rainier Paradise Ranger Station's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 39 complete annual observations from 1920 to 2023, RAINIER PARADISE RS cooled at a fitted rate of 0.10°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Rainier Paradise Ranger Station primary station fitted change -0.10 °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 | 35°F (1°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 17.2" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 34°F (1°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 12.9" | 25.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 36°F (2°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 13.2" | 28.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 40°F (4°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 8.3" | 25.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 48°F (9°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 5.1" | 17.0 | 0.0 |
| June | 54°F (12°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 3.8" | 10.0 | 0.0 |
| July | 62°F (17°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 1.4" | 1.9 | 0.0 |
| August | 64°F (18°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 1.6" | 1.1 | 0.0 |
| September | 57°F (14°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 4.4" | 4.5 | 0.0 |
| October | 46°F (8°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 11.3" | 17.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 37°F (3°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 18.2" | 24.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 33°F (0°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 18.9" | 29.2 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 65°F around July 30, short of 90°F on every date, while 206 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 22°F near December 16.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 10, then returns to freezing around October 18, covering 206 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
August 6 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 19°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Rainier Paradise Ranger Station.
Where Rainier Paradise Ranger Station Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 206 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 116 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Rainier Paradise Ranger Station earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Rainier Paradise Ranger Station's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 42% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 6%. That is the cool-season-dominant pattern of the West Coast and the higher inland West, where storm tracks swing south in winter and summer turns dry; the thermometer meanwhile shows an unusually narrow 27.1°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 18.9"
- Driest month
- July, 1.4"
- Wettest three months
- December, November, January (47% of the year)
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A cool-season label means the December-February share reaches 35%. Where snow falls, the monthly figures above report liquid-equivalent precipitation, so a wet winter month is not necessarily a rainy one.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
9,698
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
29
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WA closest to Rainier Paradise Ranger Station 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 (38°F here).
- Baudette, MN 38°F · 0.0°F off
- Floodwood, MN 38°F · 0.0°F off
- Pembina, ND 38°F · 0.0°F off
- Van Buren, ME 38°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (116.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Hilo, HI 120.4" · 4.0" off
- Petersburg, AK 110.2" · 6.3" off
- Metlakatla, AK 105.2" · 11.2" off
- Elfin Cove, AK 104.0" · 12.4" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Rainier Paradise Ranger Station's climate pattern fits together
heating led · wet · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Rainier Paradise Ranger Station, at 9,698 degree days versus 29 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 27.1°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Rainier Paradise Ranger Station. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
Rainier Paradise Ranger Station's 27.1°F seasonal spread is compact even though precipitation is abundant. August and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar. The annual average is 38°F. Temperature is relatively steady; the monthly rows show how rain and snow observations vary across the calendar.
Alongside its heating load, Rainier Paradise Ranger Station carries 116.4 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. That distinction matters because a wet annual total can arrive as rain, snow, or a mixture at different times.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Rainier Paradise Ranger Station'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 Rainier Paradise Ranger Station, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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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 Rainier Paradise Ranger Station's primary station: RAINIER PARADISE RS (USC00456898). 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 Rainier Paradise Ranger Station; 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 Rainier Paradise Ranger Station 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.