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Richland, OR Climate: Temperature by Month

Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score

30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Richland's primary NOAA station, RICHLAND.

The climate verdict for Richland

Richland, Oregon has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 50°F. July is the warmest month at 73°F and January the coldest at 30°F.

50°F
yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
144 days
frost-free days per growing season

Richland: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.

Normals record plate

Sheet USC00357160 · Richland, OR 50°F mean

TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART

Nearest mean-temperature peer: Yellowpine Bar, ID (+ 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 OR station list.

Climate Living Index · Richland

Richland: 21/100 · grade F

Richland publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.

F
21/100Climate Living Index

PlainClimate-derived for Richland, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.

Richland Living Index dimension scores
DimensionStation valueScore
Annual temperature balance 49.5°F · 18.0° from 67.5°F 38/100 · F
Frost-free season 144 days/year 21/100 · F
Normal heat + freeze calendar 222 calendar days 4/100 · F

Richland · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .

National standing · heating-led station

Where Richland sits across the climate record

Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Richland are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.

Annual temperature
38th percentile warmth
Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
Seasonal temperature swing
51st percentile swing
Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.

Monthly Temperatures

Average daily high and low temperatures by month

Month Avg High Avg Low Mean
January 37°F (3°C) 22°F (-6°C) 30°F (-1°C)
February 44°F (7°C) 25°F (-4°C) 34°F (1°C)
March 55°F (13°C) 29°F (-2°C) 42°F (5°C)
April 62°F (17°C) 33°F (0°C) 47°F (8°C)
May 72°F (22°C) 41°F (5°C) 57°F (14°C)
June 81°F (27°C) 48°F (9°C) 64°F (18°C)
July 92°F (33°C) 54°F (12°C) 73°F (23°C)
August 90°F (32°C) 52°F (11°C) 71°F (22°C)
September 80°F (27°C) 43°F (6°C) 61°F (16°C)
October 64°F (18°C) 32°F (0°C) 48°F (9°C)
November 48°F (9°C) 26°F (-4°C) 37°F (3°C)
December 39°F (4°C) 21°F (-6°C) 30°F (-1°C)

The year, day by day

Richland works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 94°F by July 26 and hold at or above 90°F on 39 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 183 dates, bottoming at 21°F around December 21.

Normal daily high and low temperature for Richland, January through December Peaks 94°F around July 26. Bottoms 21°F around December 21. 10 30 50 70 90 freezing JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Normal daily high and low across the calendar year. NOAA 1991–2020 daily normals, RICHLAND.

When the heat sits

Normal highs reach 90°F from July 9 through August 16, covering 39 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 9 to October 6.

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 April 15, then returns to freezing around October 16, covering 183 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 2 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 39°F between the normal high and the normal low.

Look up any date

Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Richland.

Where Richland Stands Nationally

Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 39°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.

Freezing is routine here by normals standards — the normal low reaches 32°F or colder on about 183 nights a year, more than most ranked stations.

Richland earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.

Monthly Precipitation

Average monthly rainfall

January N/A
February N/A
March N/A
April N/A
May N/A
June N/A
July N/A
August N/A
September N/A
October N/A
November N/A
December N/A

Frost Dates & Growing Season

First Fall Freeze

October 1

50% probability date

Last Spring Freeze

May 10

50% probability date

Growing Season

144 days

Heating & Cooling Degree Days

Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling

Heating Degree Days

6,231

Higher = more heating needed

Cooling Degree Days

597

Higher = more cooling needed

Warmest Month

July

Coldest Month

January

Nationwide similar cities

Other rankable U.S. places outside OR closest to Richland 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 (50°F here).

Oregon climate overview →

Data-derived climate profile

How Richland's climate pattern fits together

heating led · mid swing

Richland's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,231 annual heating degree days against 597 for cooling. Its 43.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.

Only about 144 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 Richland's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 43.5°F. The annual average is 50°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.

A moisture-range label is withheld because Richland'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 Richland'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 Richland, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.

Questions about Richland's climate

How many days above 90°F does Richland get?
Richland averages about 52 days a year at or above 90°F, concentrated in July and the months either side of it. That is a count of days reaching the threshold, not a measure of how far above it they go.
How much energy does heating and cooling require in Richland?
Richland has 6,231 heating degree days and 597 cooling degree days annually, a heating-dominated climate. Degree-day definitions: reading weather data.

Data Sources

Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Richland's primary station: RICHLAND (USC00357160). 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 4161700). Match rule for Richland: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainClimate

On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Richland 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.