Richmond, UT Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Richmond's primary NOAA station, RICHMOND.
The climate verdict for Richmond
Richmond, Utah has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 48°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.
- 48°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 54/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 20.3"
- annual precipitation · 62" snow
- 147 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Richmond: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00427271 · Richmond, UT 48°F mean · 20.3" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 48°F
- RANK-COOL #1,990
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Flint
- PRCP-DRY 20.3"
- SWING-WIDE 49°F
- COMF-LOW 54/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,908 HDD
- STN-1 USC00427271
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Flint, MI (+ 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 UT station list.
- Richmond (this station) 48°F
- Hot Elko Nws Office, NV 48°F
- Near Flint, MI 48°F
- Cold Lapeer Wwtp, MI 47°F
- Near Massabesic Lake, NH 47°F
Climate Living Index · Richmond
Richmond: 30/100 · grade F
Richmond publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Richmond, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 54/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 20.3 in · 14.8 from 35 in | 48/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 47.5°F · 20.0° from 67.5°F | 29/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 174 calendar days | 29/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 147 days/year | 23/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 62.3 inches/year | 14/100 · F |
Richmond · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Richmond is a continental Köppen climate: Dsa
Coldest-month mean 23.7°F and warmest-month mean 72.7°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, hot summer climates (Dsa). Class Dsa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 72.7°F
- Coldest month
- 23.7°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 Richmond sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Richmond's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 71%
- Among 6,861 stations, Richmond sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 72%
- Richmond's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 78%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Richmond is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Richmond compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Richmond'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
Richmond's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 66 complete annual observations from 1951 to 2025, RICHMOND warmed at a fitted rate of 0.11°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Richmond primary station fitted change +0.11 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31°F (-1°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 1.9" | 12.9" | 29.6 | 0.0 |
| February | 37°F (3°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 1.8" | 12.7" | 25.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 49°F (9°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 2.1" | 8.9" | 21.8 | 0.0 |
| April | 58°F (14°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 2.5" | 4.0" | 12.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 68°F (20°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 2.5" | 0.5" | 3.3 | 0.2 |
| June | 79°F (26°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 1.4" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 4.6 |
| July | 89°F (32°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 20.3 |
| August | 87°F (31°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 16.7 |
| September | 77°F (25°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 1.4" | 0.0" | 0.9 | 2.0 |
| October | 61°F (16°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 1.8" | 1.3" | 9.7 | 0.0 |
| November | 45°F (7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 1.5" | 6.6" | 23.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 32°F (0°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 1.9" | 15.4" | 28.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Richmond works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 91°F by July 24 and hold at or above 90°F on 22 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 152 dates, bottoming at 16°F around January 1.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 16 through August 6, covering 22 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 23 to September 29.
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 March 29, then returns to freezing around October 30, covering 152 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 January 8, when 38% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 7 at 12%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 104 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 15 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 33°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Richmond.
Where Richmond Stands Nationally
Daily temperature swings run wider than most of the country, peaking near 33°F between the normal high and low.
Richmond earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 12.9"
11.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 12.7"
10.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.9"
10.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.0"
10.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.5"
11.3 days with precipitation
5.8 days with precipitation
3.9 days with precipitation
4.9 days with precipitation
5.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.3"
7.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.6"
9.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 15.4"
12.0 days with precipitation
Richmond spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 13% of the annual total and December through February 28%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Richmond has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 49°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 2.5" and July 0.6". The three wettest months together take 35% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
Richmond is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 104 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 28% of the calendar, and they carry 20.3" between them. At roughly 0.19 inches on an average wet day, this is not the damp drizzle of a marine climate; it is an arid record in which precipitation is both uncommon and light when it appears.
The wettest month by count is December at about 12 wet days; the driest is July at about 4.
A low per-event average in a dry record is a statement about typical days only. Arid regions can still take a large share of a year's total from a single convective storm, which a normal cannot show.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, not the extremes within it.
Winter brings real snow to Richmond
Richmond averages 62.3 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 24 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: 62.3 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 24 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 31% 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
October 5
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 11
50% probability date
Growing Season
147 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,908
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
573
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside UT closest to Richmond 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 (48°F here).
- Anselmo, NE 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Ardmore, SD 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Butte, NE 48°F · 0.0°F off
- Denison, IA 48°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (20.3" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Brewster, KS 20.3" · 0.0" off
- Eureka, SD 20.3" · 0.0" off
- Petersburg, ND 20.2" · 0.0" off
- Rolette, ND 20.2" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Richmond
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Richmond's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,908 annual heating degree days against 573 for cooling. Its 49.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 147 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. Richmond coldest normal
January
Averaging 24°F (-5°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Richmond typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Richmond snow peak
December
Richmond averages 62.3 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 Richmond's primary station: RICHMOND (USC00427271). 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 4963680). Match rule for Richmond: 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 Richmond 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.