Stanley Ranger Station, ID Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Stanley Ranger Station's primary NOAA station, STANLEY RS.
The climate verdict for Stanley Ranger Station
Dryness leads the climate profile for Stanley Ranger Station, Idaho, with 17.9 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 37°F. July is the warmest month at 59°F and December the coldest at 17°F.
- 37°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 17.9"
- yearly precipitation total
Stanley Ranger Station: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00004112 · Stanley Ranger Station, ID 37°F mean · 17.9" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 37°F
- RANK-COOL #206
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Lamar Ranger St…
- PRCP-DRY 17.9"
- SWING-MID 43°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 10,061 HDD
- STN-1 USW00004112
- BOOK-FULL 5/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Lamar Ranger Station, 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 ID station list.
- Hot Anchorage Forec…, AK 38°F
- Near Bondurant, WY 38°F
- Near Pinedale, WY 38°F
- Stanley Ranger… (this station) 37°F
- Cold Lamar Ranger St…, WY 37°F
Climate Living Index · Stanley Ranger Station
Stanley Ranger Station: 9/100 · grade F
Stanley Ranger Station publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Stanley Ranger Station, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 17.9 in · 17.1 from 35 in | 39/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 37.4°F · 30.1° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 260 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
Stanley Ranger Station · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
Stanley Ranger Station is a continental Köppen climate: Dsb
Coldest-month mean 16.8°F and warmest-month mean 59.3°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
- 59.3°F
- Coldest month
- 16.8°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 Stanley Ranger Station sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Stanley Ranger Station'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, Stanley Ranger Station sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 76%
- Stanley Ranger Station's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 46th 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 | 30°F (-1°C) | 4°F (-15°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 1.7" | 30.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 35°F (2°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 1.3" | 27.7 | 0.0 |
| March | 43°F (6°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 2.2" | 30.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 49°F (9°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 1.7" | 29.1 | 0.0 |
| May | 60°F (16°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 1.5" | 23.9 | 0.0 |
| June | 69°F (20°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.6" | 14.0 | 0.2 |
| July | 80°F (27°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 0.6" | 5.4 | 1.7 |
| August | 80°F (27°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 0.5" | 9.5 | 0.7 |
| September | 70°F (21°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 1.0" | 20.5 | 0.2 |
| October | 55°F (13°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 1.6" | 28.5 | 0.0 |
| November | 39°F (4°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 2.2" | 29.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 28°F (-2°C) | 6°F (-14°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 1.9" | 30.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 82°F around July 28, short of 90°F on every date, while 260 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 4°F near January 3.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 24, then returns to freezing around September 8, covering 260 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 March 24, when 46% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 28 at 17%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 125 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 20 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 43°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Stanley Ranger Station.
Where Stanley Ranger Station Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 260 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 43°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Stanley Ranger Station earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
11.6 days with precipitation
11.6 days with precipitation
14.2 days with precipitation
12.1 days with precipitation
11.7 days with precipitation
10.3 days with precipitation
5.2 days with precipitation
5.4 days with precipitation
7.1 days with precipitation
9.6 days with precipitation
11.9 days with precipitation
14.1 days with precipitation
Stanley Ranger Station spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 15% of the annual total and December through February 28%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Stanley Ranger Station has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 42.5°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: March averages 2.2" and August 0.5". The three wettest months together take 35% 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.
Rain reaches Stanley Ranger Station in small, frequent amounts
Stanley Ranger Station records about 125 days with measurable precipitation a year and 17.9" in total, which works out to roughly 0.14 inches on an average wet day. Precipitation on 34% of all days, arriving that lightly, is the damp many-grey-days pattern rather than the storm-driven one.
Places in this band read as wetter than their annual totals suggest, because what people notice is the number of overcast days, not the depth in the gauge.
- Most wet days: March, about 14 of them.
- Fewest: July, about 5.
- Average depth per wet day: 0.14 inches.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year and say nothing about the heaviest single storm on record.
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
10,061
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
13
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside ID closest to Stanley Ranger Station 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 (37°F here).
- Big Falls, MN 38°F · 0.1°F off
- Bondurant, WY 38°F · 0.1°F off
- Edmore, ND 37°F · 0.1°F off
- Pinedale, WY 38°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (17.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Grass Range, MT 17.9" · 0.0" off
- Oelrichs, SD 17.9" · 0.0" off
- Pismo Beach, CA 17.9" · 0.0" off
- Atlantic City, WY 17.9" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Stanley Ranger Station's climate pattern fits together
heating led · dry · mid swing
Stanley Ranger Station's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 10,061 annual heating degree days against 13 for cooling. Its 42.5°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 Stanley Ranger Station. 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 Stanley Ranger Station's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 42.5°F. The annual average is 37°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Stanley Ranger Station's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 17.9 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 Stanley Ranger Station'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 Stanley Ranger Station, 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 Stanley Ranger Station's primary station: STANLEY RS (USW00004112). 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 Stanley Ranger Station; 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 Stanley Ranger Station 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.