Spicer, CO 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 Spicer's primary NOAA station, SPICER.
The climate verdict for Spicer
Dryness leads the climate profile for Spicer, Colorado, with 15.2 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 38°F. July is the warmest month at 59°F and January the coldest at 18°F.
- 38°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 15.2"
- precipitation, annual total
Spicer: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00057848 · Spicer, CO 38°F mean · 15.2" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 38°F
- RANK-COOL #206
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Vail
- PRCP-DRY 15.2"
- SWING-MID 41°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 9,881 HDD
- STN-1 USC00057848
- BOOK-FULL 5/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Vail, CO (+ 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 CO station list.
- Spicer (this station) 38°F
- Cold Wise Rvr, MT 38°F
- Hot Anchorage Lake…, AK 38°F
- Near Vail, CO 38°F
- Near Anchorage Merri…, AK 38°F
Climate Living Index · Spicer
Spicer: 7/100 · grade F
Spicer publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Spicer, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 15.2 in · 19.9 from 35 in | 29/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 37.9°F · 29.6° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 248 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
Spicer · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
Spicer is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 17.9°F and warmest-month mean 59.3°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
- 59.3°F
- Coldest month
- 17.9°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 Spicer sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Spicer's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 97%
- Among 6,861 stations, Spicer sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 82%
- Spicer's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 42nd 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 | 29°F (-2°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 1.0" | 30.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 31°F (0°C) | 9°F (-13°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 1.1" | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 40°F (4°C) | 15°F (-9°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 1.2" | 30.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 49°F (10°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 1.6" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 59°F (15°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 1.5" | 20.4 | 0.0 |
| June | 71°F (22°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 1.0" | 10.8 | 0.0 |
| July | 77°F (25°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 1.5" | 2.5 | 0.3 |
| August | 76°F (24°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 1.3" | 2.6 | 0.0 |
| September | 68°F (20°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 1.7" | 12.0 | 0.0 |
| October | 55°F (13°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 1.2" | 27.0 | 0.0 |
| November | 39°F (4°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 1.1" | 29.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 29°F (-2°C) | 9°F (-13°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 1.0" | 30.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 77°F around July 22, short of 90°F on every date, while 248 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 7°F near January 3.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 28, then returns to freezing around September 24, covering 248 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 August 10, when 35% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is October 11 at 20%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 103 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 19 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 36°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Spicer.
Where Spicer Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 248 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 15 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Spicer earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
9.0 days with precipitation
8.3 days with precipitation
7.6 days with precipitation
9.5 days with precipitation
9.4 days with precipitation
7.7 days with precipitation
8.8 days with precipitation
11.0 days with precipitation
8.7 days with precipitation
6.4 days with precipitation
8.7 days with precipitation
7.3 days with precipitation
Spicer spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 25% of the annual total and December through February 20%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Spicer has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 41.4°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: September averages 1.7" and December 1.0". The three wettest months together take 32% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
Spicer is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 102 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 28% of the calendar, and they carry 15.2" between them. At roughly 0.15 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 August at about 11 wet days; the driest is October at about 6.
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.
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
9,881
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
12
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CO closest to Spicer 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 (38°F here).
- Ely, MN 38°F · 0.0°F off
- Jackson, WY 38°F · 0.0°F off
- Cook, MN 38°F · 0.1°F off
- Farson, WY 38°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (15.2" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Jemez Springs, NM 15.2" · 0.0" off
- Gila Hot Springs, NM 15.2" · 0.0" off
- Monument, OR 15.1" · 0.0" off
- Palo Alto, CA 15.1" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Spicer's climate pattern fits together
heating led · dry · mid swing
Spicer's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 9,881 annual heating degree days against 12 for cooling. Its 41.4°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 Spicer. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Spicer's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 41.4°F. The annual average is 38°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Spicer's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 15.2 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Spicer'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 Spicer, 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 Spicer's primary station: SPICER (USC00057848). 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 Spicer; 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 Spicer 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.