Satus Pass, WA 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 Satus Pass's primary NOAA station, SATUS PASS 2 SSW.
The climate verdict for Satus Pass
Satus Pass, Washington has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 47°F. Its climate comfort score of 64/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 49% of station-mapped location scores.
- 47°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 64/100
- comfort score, above 49% of station-mapped location scores
- 21.4"
- annual precipitation
- 121 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Satus Pass: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00457342 · Satus Pass, WA 47°F mean · 21.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 47°F
- RANK-COOL #1,784
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lund
- PRCP-DRY 21.4"
- SWING-MID 37°F
- COMF-MID 64/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,869 HDD
- STN-1 USC00457342
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Lund, NV (+ 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 WA station list.
- Satus Pass (this station) 47°F
- Cold Canaan Valley, WV 47°F
- Hot Wallowa, OR 47°F
- Near Lund, NV 47°F
- Near Norwood, CO 47°F
Climate Living Index · Satus Pass
Satus Pass: 31/100 · grade F
Satus Pass publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Satus Pass, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 64/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 21.4 in · 13.6 from 35 in | 52/100 · D |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 170 calendar days | 32/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 46.8°F · 20.7° from 67.5°F | 26/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 121 days/year | 7/100 · F |
Satus Pass · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Satus Pass is a continental Köppen climate: Dsb
Coldest-month mean 28.9°F and warmest-month mean 66.3°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Dsb). Class Dsb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 66.3°F
- Coldest month
- 28.9°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 Satus Pass sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Satus Pass's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 74%
- Among 6,861 stations, Satus Pass sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 70%
- Satus Pass's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 75%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Satus Pass is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Satus Pass compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Satus Pass's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
64 49th percentile score exceeds 49% 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%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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 | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 37°F (3°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 3.6" | 28.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 42°F (6°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 3.1" | 24.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 49°F (10°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 2.3" | 23.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 57°F (14°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 1.1" | 16.2 | 0.0 |
| May | 67°F (19°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 1.1" | 7.2 | 0.3 |
| June | 74°F (23°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 0.8" | 2.2 | 1.4 |
| July | 84°F (29°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.2" | 0.0 | 9.3 |
| August | 84°F (29°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.3" | 0.1 | 9.4 |
| September | 75°F (24°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 0.5" | 2.0 | 1.8 |
| October | 60°F (15°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 1.5" | 12.8 | 0.0 |
| November | 44°F (6°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 2.6" | 21.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 35°F (2°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 4.3" | 28.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 87°F around July 29, short of 90°F on every date, while 170 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 22°F near December 26.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 14, then returns to freezing around October 28, covering 170 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
July 29 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 37°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Satus Pass.
Where Satus Pass Stands Nationally
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 37°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Satus Pass 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
Satus Pass's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 51% 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 a 37.4°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 4.3"
- Driest month
- July, 0.2"
- Wettest three months
- December, January, February (51% 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
October 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 2
50% probability date
Growing Season
121 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,869
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
257
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WA closest to Satus Pass 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 (47°F here).
- Bigfork, MT 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Chamberlain, SD 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Cody, WY 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Dakota City, IA 47°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (21.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Orland, CA 21.4" · 0.0" off
- Cambridge, ID 21.4" · 0.0" off
- Gage, OK 21.4" · 0.0" off
- Spearfish, SD 21.4" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Satus Pass's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Satus Pass's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,869 annual heating degree days against 257 for cooling. Its 37.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 121 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.
August and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Satus Pass's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 37.4°F. The annual average is 47°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Satus Pass's 21.4 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Satus Pass'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 Satus Pass, 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 Satus Pass's primary station: SATUS PASS 2 SSW (USC00457342). 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 Satus Pass; 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 Satus Pass 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.