Silver Gate, MT Climate: Temperature by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Silver Gate's primary NOAA station, SILVER GATE.
The climate verdict for Silver Gate
Silver Gate, Montana has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 34°F. July is the warmest month at 57°F and December the coldest at 13°F.
- 34°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
Silver Gate: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00247603 · Silver Gate, MT 34°F mean
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COLD 34°F
- RANK-COOL #69
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Snake Rvr
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 44°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 11,167 HDD
- STN-1 USC00247603
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Snake Rvr, WY (+ 0.1 °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 MT station list.
- Silver Gate (this station) 34°F
- Hot Stanley, ID 34°F
- Near Snake Rvr, WY 34°F
- Near Hayes River, AK 34°F
- Near Old Faithful, WY 34°F
Silver Gate sits in Montana, the #6 coldest U.S. state at 43.4°F statewide annual average - see all 50 coldest states ranked by NOAA normals
National standing · heating-led station
Where Silver Gate sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Silver Gate are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 99%
- Among 6,861 stations, Silver Gate sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 52nd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude 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 | 27°F (-3°C) | 3°F (-16°C) | 15°F (-10°C) | N/A | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 30°F (-1°C) | 5°F (-15°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | N/A | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 39°F (4°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | N/A | 30.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 44°F (7°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 32°F (0°C) | N/A | 29.2 | 0.0 |
| May | 55°F (13°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 42°F (6°C) | N/A | 24.1 | 0.0 |
| June | 65°F (18°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 50°F (10°C) | N/A | 9.7 | 0.0 |
| July | 74°F (23°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 57°F (14°C) | N/A | 2.2 | 0.0 |
| August | 73°F (23°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 55°F (13°C) | N/A | 7.4 | 0.0 |
| September | 64°F (18°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 47°F (8°C) | N/A | 18.0 | 0.0 |
| October | 50°F (10°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 36°F (2°C) | N/A | 28.2 | 0.0 |
| November | 33°F (1°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | N/A | 29.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 24°F (-4°C) | 2°F (-17°C) | 13°F (-10°C) | N/A | 30.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 76°F around July 26, short of 90°F on every date, while 269 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 0°F near December 24.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 27, then returns to freezing around September 2, covering 269 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
August 27 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 Silver Gate.
Where Silver Gate Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 269 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
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.
Silver Gate earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
11,167
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MT closest to Silver Gate 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 (34°F here).
- Crested Butte, CO 34°F · 0.1°F off
- Kenai, AK 34°F · 0.1°F off
- Stanley, ID 34°F · 0.1°F off
- Soldotna, AK 34°F · 0.2°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Silver Gate's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Silver Gate's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 11,167 annual heating degree days against 1 for cooling. Its 43.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Silver Gate. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Silver Gate's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 43.7°F. The annual average is 34°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Silver Gate'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 Silver Gate'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 Silver Gate, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Silver Gate'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 Silver Gate's primary station: SILVER GATE (USC00247603). 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 3068425), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Silver Gate: 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 Silver Gate 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.