Santa FE Seton, NM Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Santa FE Seton's primary NOAA station, SANTA FE SETON.
The climate verdict for Santa FE Seton
Dryness leads the climate profile for Santa FE Seton, New Mexico, with 14.7 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 51°F. At 49/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 18% of scores.
- 51°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 14.7"
- annual precipitation · 28" snow
- 168 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Santa FE Seton: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00298088 · Santa FE Seton, NM 51°F mean · 14.7" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 51°F
- RANK-MID #3,087
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Dayton
- PRCP-DRY 14.7"
- SWING-MID 40°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,606 HDD
- STN-1 USC00298088
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Dayton, WA (+ 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.
- Santa FE Seton (this station) 51°F
- Cold Chatham, MA 51°F
- Hot Rosedale, WV 51°F
- Near Dayton, WA 51°F
- Near Kamiah, ID 51°F
Climate Living Index · Santa FE Seton
Santa FE Seton: 41/100 · grade D
Santa FE Seton publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Santa FE Seton, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 51.1°F · 16.4° from 67.5°F | 45/100 · D |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 152 calendar days | 45/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 168 days/year | 40/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 28.1 inches/year | 40/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 14.7 in · 20.3 from 35 in | 27/100 · F |
Santa FE Seton · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Santa FE Seton is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 31.6°F and warmest-month mean 71.4°F place this station in continental, no dry season, warm summer climates (Dfb). Class Dfb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 71.4°F
- Coldest month
- 31.6°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 Santa FE Seton sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Santa FE Seton's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 45th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 83%
- Santa FE Seton's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 35th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Santa FE Seton compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Santa FE Seton's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
49 18th percentile score exceeds 18% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Above this entry.
- 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 | 43°F (6°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 0.8" | 5.0" | 30.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 47°F (8°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 0.7" | 5.5" | 25.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 56°F (13°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 0.9" | 4.2" | 20.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 63°F (17°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 0.8" | 1.1" | 9.6 | 0.0 |
| May | 73°F (23°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 2.2 | 0.1 |
| June | 84°F (29°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 0.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 6.6 |
| July | 86°F (30°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 2.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 10.2 |
| August | 83°F (29°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 2.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 5.5 |
| September | 77°F (25°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 1.6" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 0.8 |
| October | 66°F (19°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.6" | 0.5" | 5.4 | 0.0 |
| November | 52°F (11°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 0.9" | 3.2" | 21.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 42°F (6°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 1.0" | 8.6" | 29.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 86°F around July 2, short of 90°F on every date, while 152 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 20°F near January 1.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 2, then returns to freezing around November 3, 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 July 27, when 41% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is May 2 at 13%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 75 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 14 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 31°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Santa FE Seton.
Where Santa FE Seton Stands Nationally
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 15 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Santa FE Seton 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: 5.0"
4.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.5"
5.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.2"
4.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.1"
4.4 days with precipitation
4.3 days with precipitation
5.3 days with precipitation
11.9 days with precipitation
10.6 days with precipitation
7.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.5"
5.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.2"
4.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.6"
6.0 days with precipitation
Santa FE Seton runs a summer-peaked wet season
38% of Santa FE Seton'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 July at 2.5", on a 39.8°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: July, August, September, taking 43% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: February at 0.7".
- Winter share: 17% 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.
Santa FE Seton is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 75 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 21% of the calendar, and they carry 14.7" between them. At roughly 0.20 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 July at about 12 wet days; the driest is May 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 Santa FE Seton
Santa FE Seton averages 28.1 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 19 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: 28.1 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 19 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 19% 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 17
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 2
50% probability date
Growing Season
168 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,606
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
554
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NM closest to Santa FE Seton 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 (51°F here).
- Alpine, UT 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Baiting Hollow, NY 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Burr Oak, KS 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Cambridge, NE 51°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (14.7" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Baker, MT 14.7" · 0.0" off
- Great Falls, MT 14.8" · 0.0" off
- Union, OR 14.8" · 0.0" off
- Walnut Creek, AZ 14.8" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Santa FE Seton
heating led · dry · mid swing
Santa FE Seton's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,606 annual heating degree days against 554 for cooling. Its 39.8°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Santa FE Seton's frost-free season lasts about 168 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Santa FE Seton coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 32°F (0°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Santa FE Seton typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Santa FE Seton snow peak
December
Santa FE Seton averages 28.1 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 Santa FE Seton's primary station: SANTA FE SETON (USC00298088). 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 Santa FE Seton; 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 Santa FE Seton 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.