Scott City, Kansas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Scott City's normal year runs from 16°F January nights to 93°F July afternoons, with 20.2 inches of precipitation and 20 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 11.7°C, January lows of −9°C, July highs of 34°C, 513 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationScott City
- Station IDUSC00147271
- Location38.47°N 100.92°W
- Elevation2,974 ft (907 m)
- From the centerunder 1 mile
- Population3,929
On October 23, the normal high in Scott City is 66°F and the normal low 35°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 14%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Scott City.
- Jan 44° 16°
- Feb 47° 19°
- Mar 58° 27°
- Apr 67° 35°
- May 77° 47°
- Jun 88° 58°
- Jul 93° 63°
- Aug 90° 61°
- Sep 82° 52°
- Oct 69° 38°
- Nov 56° 26°
- Dec 45° 18°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
What is the weather like in Scott City each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 93°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 16°F. The most precipitation falls in June (3.16 in), the least in January (0.44 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44°F | 16°F | 29.9°F | 0.44 | 4.5 | 3 | <1 | 31 | 9 h 50 min |
| February | 47°F | 19°F | 33.0°F | 0.52 | 4.0 | 4 | <1 | 27 | 10 h 40 min |
| March | 58°F | 27°F | 42.2°F | 1.13 | 3.9 | 5 | <1 | 23 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 67°F | 35°F | 51.0°F | 1.88 | 1.8 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 13 h 10 min |
| May | 77°F | 47°F | 61.7°F | 2.65 | 0.0 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 14 h 10 min |
| June | 88°F | 58°F | 73.0°F | 3.16 | 0.0 | 8 | 14 | <1 | 14 h 50 min |
| July | 93°F | 63°F | 78.0°F | 3.06 | 0.0 | 8 | 21 | <1 | 14 h 40 min |
| August | 90°F | 61°F | 75.6°F | 3.05 | 0.0 | 8 | 17 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| September | 82°F | 52°F | 67.3°F | 1.45 | 0.0 | 6 | 8 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 69°F | 38°F | 53.8°F | 1.53 | 1.2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 56°F | 26°F | 40.8°F | 0.64 | 1.1 | 3 | <1 | 23 | 10 h 10 min |
| December | 45°F | 18°F | 31.2°F | 0.67 | 3.1 | 3 | <1 | 30 | 9 h 30 min |
| Year (annual) | 68°F | 38°F | 53.1°F | 20.18 | 19.6 | 66 | 67 | 154 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7°C | −9°C | −1.2°C | 11 mm | 11 cm |
| February | 8°C | −7°C | 0.6°C | 13 mm | 10 cm |
| March | 14°C | −3°C | 5.7°C | 29 mm | 10 cm |
| April | 19°C | 2°C | 10.6°C | 48 mm | 5 cm |
| May | 25°C | 8°C | 16.5°C | 67 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 31°C | 15°C | 22.8°C | 80 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 34°C | 17°C | 25.6°C | 78 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 32°C | 16°C | 24.2°C | 77 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 28°C | 11°C | 19.6°C | 37 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 21°C | 4°C | 12.1°C | 39 mm | 3 cm |
| November | 13°C | −3°C | 4.9°C | 16 mm | 3 cm |
| December | 7°C | −8°C | −0.4°C | 17 mm | 8 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00147271; annual normals. Wet days: 0.01 inch or more; 90°F days and freezing nights: NOAA's day counts. Daylight: sunrise to sunset on the 15th, computed from the latitude.
When is the best weather to visit Scott City?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in April, May, September and October. Of those, October has the fewest days with rain (5).
That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00147271.
When is the last frost in Scott City?
In Scott City, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 30 in half of years and after May 13 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 15 in half of years and before October 1 in one year in ten.
Frost-free in half of yearsFrost in 1 to 9 years out of 10Frost most years
- Last spring frost, half of years after
- April 301 year in 10 after May 13; 9 in 10 after April 14
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- October 151 year in 10 before October 1; 9 in 10 before October 26
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 167 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 186 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 20 in half of springs and before October 23 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Scott City in zone 6a in ZIP code 67871, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Scott City's NOAA station is in zone 6a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches −6°F (29 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Kansas · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00147271; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; the station zone: ACIS daily lows, 1991-2020. A 10% date means one year in ten has a frost after it in spring or before it in autumn.
How hot and how cold does it get in Scott City?
In a normal year in Scott City, 67 days a year reach 90°F (11 of them 100°F or more), 154 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 66 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 67a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 11a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 154a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 22high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 66a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 8a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1895) is 114°F, on July 13, 1913; the lowest is −26°F, on January 12, 1912.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1915, with 36.15 in; the snowiest season is 1947–48, with 60.5 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00147271; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00147271. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Scott City?
Over a year 83% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Scott City, 4.9 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (89%) and February the cloudiest (76%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 78% | 2.6 |
| February | 76% | 3.5 |
| March | 79% | 4.7 |
| April | 78% | 5.7 |
| May | 80% | 6.6 |
| June | 87% | 7.3 |
| July | 89% | 7.2 |
| August | 87% | 6.3 |
| September | 86% | 5.2 |
| October | 81% | 3.9 |
| November | 81% | 2.9 |
| December | 78% | 2.3 |
Source: NASA POWER solar climatology, 2001-2020 (CERES SYN1deg). Satellite-based, for the 1-degree cell (about 100 km across) around the station, so it describes the area rather than the airport.
How much heating and cooling does Scott City need?
A normal year in Scott City brings 5,518 heating degree days, 3% more than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,225 cooling degree days, 35% more than the median (908). Seven months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 3,653 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,088 | 0 |
| February | 896 | 0 |
| March | 706 | 0 |
| April | 426 | 6 |
| May | 169 | 67 |
| June | 19 | 259 |
| July | 2 | 403 |
| August | 4 | 333 |
| September | 73 | 142 |
| October | 361 | 15 |
| November | 728 | 0 |
| December | 1,048 | 0 |
| Year (annual) | 5,518 | 1,225 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00147271. A degree day is one degree of a day's mean temperature below 65°F (heating) or above it (cooling); utilities use them to estimate energy use.
Has Scott City been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 54.9°F, 1.8°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 53.1°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 54.5°F | +1.4°F | 18.06 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 53.6°F | +0.5°F | 8.01 | 21.5 |
| 2023 | 54.0°F | +0.9°F | 22.10 | 16.0 |
| 2024 | 55.8°F | +2.7°F | 21.70 | 20.6 |
| 2025 | 54.9°F | +1.8°F | 21.64 | 11.0 |
Over 93 complete years from 1907 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 0.7°F per century (+0.04°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00147271; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Scott City's climate compare?
Scott City is warmer than 24 of the other 136 places with their own NOAA record in Kansas, and wetter than 15. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 53.1°F is warmer than 54%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Scott City is BSk: cold semi-arid steppe. What the classes mean.
Places with the most similar year elsewhere
Measured month by month on the normal high, low and precipitation, among places of 20,000 or more people in other states:
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for every station PlainClimate covers. Similarity: the root-mean-square difference of the 36 monthly figures, precipitation weighted so an inch counts like 6°F.
Which places near Scott City share this climate record?
Shallow Water has no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of its own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.
- Shallow Water, KS0 people · 7 mi S
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
Questions about Scott City's climate
What is the coldest month in Scott City?
January, with a normal high of 44°F and a normal low of 16°F. The warmest is July (93°F by day, 63°F at night).
Does it snow in Scott City?
Yes: 20 inches in a normal year, falling on 10 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in January (4.5 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Scott City?
June, with 3.16 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is January with 0.44 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Scott City in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Scott City in zone 6a in ZIP code 67871, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Scott City's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches −6°F (29 years, 1991-2020): zone 6a.
How late can frost come in Scott City?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after April 30; in one year in ten it comes after May 13. Waiting until May 13 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Kansas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Healy, KS18 miles from this station, 53.9°F a year
- Leoti, KS24 miles from this station, 52.3°F a year
- Garden City Experiment Station, KS34 miles from this station, 54.5°F a year
- Russell Springs, KS36 miles from this station, 52.6°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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