Sandia Park, NM Climate: Temperature by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Sandia Park's primary NOAA station, SANDIA PARK.
The climate verdict for Sandia Park
Sandia Park, New Mexico 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 68°F and December the coldest at 30°F.
- 50°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 153 days
- frost-free growing season
Sandia Park: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00298015 · Sandia Park, NM 50°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 50°F
- RANK-COOL #2,607
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Yosemite Village
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 38°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 5,939 HDD
- STN-1 USC00298015
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Yosemite Village, CA (+ 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 NM station list.
- Sandia Park (this station) 50°F
- Hot Pietown, NM 50°F
- Near Yosemite Village, CA 50°F
- Cold Augustine, NM 49°F
- Near Burkes Garden, VA 49°F
Climate Living Index · Sandia Park
Sandia Park: 36/100 · grade F
Sandia Park publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Sandia Park, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 49.5°F · 18.0° from 67.5°F | 38/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 164 calendar days | 36/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 153 days/year | 28/100 · F |
Sandia Park · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Sandia Park sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Sandia Park 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
- Narrower than 74%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Sandia Park is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44°F (7°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 31°F (0°C) | N/A | 30.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 48°F (9°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 35°F (2°C) | N/A | 26.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 55°F (13°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 40°F (5°C) | N/A | 26.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 63°F (17°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 49°F (9°C) | N/A | 17.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 73°F (23°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 57°F (14°C) | N/A | 3.4 | 0.3 |
| June | 83°F (28°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 66°F (19°C) | N/A | 0.1 | 2.7 |
| July | 83°F (28°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 68°F (20°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 4.0 |
| August | 80°F (27°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 66°F (19°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| September | 77°F (25°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 61°F (16°C) | N/A | 1.2 | 0.2 |
| October | 65°F (18°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 50°F (10°C) | N/A | 12.1 | 0.0 |
| November | 54°F (12°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 39°F (4°C) | N/A | 24.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 43°F (6°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | N/A | 29.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 85°F around June 29, short of 90°F on every date, while 164 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 18°F near December 16.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 7, then returns to freezing around October 27, covering 164 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
June 8 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 35°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Sandia Park.
Where Sandia Park Stands Nationally
Daily temperature swings run wider than most of the country, peaking near 35°F between the normal high and low.
Sandia Park 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
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 9
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 9
50% probability date
Growing Season
153 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,939
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
298
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NM closest to Sandia Park 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).
- Ankeny, IA 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Bartlett, NE 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Carleton, MI 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Columbia City, IN 50°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Sandia Park's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Sandia Park's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,939 annual heating degree days against 298 for cooling. Its 37.8°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Sandia Park's frost-free season lasts about 153 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Sandia Park's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 37.8°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 Sandia Park'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 Sandia Park'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 Sandia Park, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Sandia Park's climate
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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 Sandia Park's primary station: SANDIA PARK (USC00298015). 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 3566960), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Sandia Park: 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 Sandia Park 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.