Stead, NV Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Stead's primary NOAA station, STEAD.
The climate verdict for Stead
Dryness leads the climate profile for Stead, Nevada, with 11.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 51°F. At 54/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 51°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 54/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 11.0"
- annual precipitation · 17" snow
- 157 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Stead: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00267820 · Stead, NV 51°F mean · 11.0" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 51°F
- RANK-MID #3,087
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Pasamonte
- PRCP-ARID 11.0"
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-LOW 54/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,665 HDD
- STN-1 USC00267820
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Pasamonte, NM ( -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 NV station list.
- Stead (this station) 51°F
- Cold Pasamonte, NM 51°F
- Hot Smith, NV 51°F
- Near Belington, WV 51°F
- Near Kamiah, ID 51°F
Climate Living Index · Stead
Stead: 37/100 · grade F
Stead publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Stead, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 54/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 16.7 inches/year | 53/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 51.0°F · 16.5° from 67.5°F | 45/100 · D |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 161 calendar days | 39/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 157 days/year | 31/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 11.0 in · 24.0 from 35 in | 15/100 · F |
Stead · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Stead is a temperate Köppen climate: Csa
Coldest-month mean 33.4°F and warmest-month mean 72.8°F place this station in temperate, dry-summer, hot summer climates (Csa). Class Csa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, dry-summer, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Csa
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 72.8°F
- Coldest month
- 33.4°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 Stead sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Stead's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 45th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 92%
- Stead's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 33rd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Stead compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Stead's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
54 31st percentile score exceeds 31% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Above this entry.
- 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 | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43°F (6°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 1.6" | 4.0" | 27.1 | 0.0 |
| February | 47°F (8°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 1.6" | 3.1" | 23.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 54°F (12°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 1.2" | 2.5" | 20.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 60°F (15°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 0.5" | 0.6" | 13.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 69°F (21°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 0.6" | 0.1" | 3.7 | 0.7 |
| June | 79°F (26°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 4.6 |
| July | 89°F (32°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 17.7 |
| August | 87°F (31°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 14.3 |
| September | 79°F (26°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 2.9 |
| October | 66°F (19°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 9.4 | 0.1 |
| November | 52°F (11°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 1.1" | 1.0" | 22.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 43°F (6°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 2.2" | 5.4" | 26.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Stead works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 90°F by July 23 and hold at or above 90°F on 10 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 151 dates, bottoming at 23°F around December 21.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 20 through July 29, covering 10 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 19 to October 8.
This counts calendar dates whose 1991–2020 normal high reaches 90°F. It is a smaller number than the 90°F+ day counts in the monthly table above, which measure how often the threshold was actually crossed in a typical year. A date can average 88°F and still exceed 90°F in half of all years.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 30, then returns to freezing around November 1, covering 151 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 February 18, when 21% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 27 at 4%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 44 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 20 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 33°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Stead.
Where Stead Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 11 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Daily temperature swings run wider than most of the country, peaking near 33°F between the normal high and low.
Stead earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 4.0"
5.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.1"
6.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.5"
4.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
3.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
3.8 days with precipitation
2.8 days with precipitation
1.7 days with precipitation
1.4 days with precipitation
1.4 days with precipitation
3.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.0"
4.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.4"
5.4 days with precipitation
Stead's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 49% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 10%. 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 39.4°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 2.2"
- Driest month
- August, 0.2"
- Wettest three months
- December, January, February (49% 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.
How Stead's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 44 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 11.0" between them, or roughly 0.25 inches on a typical wet day. That sits in the middle band: neither the many-light-days pattern of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes, nor the few-heavy-events pattern of the Gulf and the desert Southwest.
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.
Winter brings real snow to Stead
Stead averages 16.7 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 8 days that record measurable snow. That is depth accumulating on the ground, which is why it can exceed the annual precipitation figure: precipitation counts the liquid the snow melts down to, and fresh snow is mostly air.
- Annual snowfall: 16.7 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 8 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 15% of the year's precipitation.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. The ten-to-one ratio is a convention, not a measurement: real ratios vary with temperature, so treat the share as an order of magnitude rather than an exact split.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 12
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 8
50% probability date
Growing Season
157 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,665
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
596
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Stead 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 (51°F here).
- Deseret, UT 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Elwood, IN 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Gothenburg, NE 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Hastings, NE 51°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (11.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Porterville, CA 11.0" · 0.0" off
- McNeal, AZ 11.0" · 0.0" off
- Moro, OR 11.0" · 0.0" off
- Wickenburg, AZ 10.9" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Stead
heating led · dry · mid swing
Stead's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,665 annual heating degree days against 596 for cooling. Its 39.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Stead's frost-free season lasts about 157 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Stead coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 33°F (1°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Stead typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Stead snow peak
December
Stead averages 16.7 inches of snow a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals.
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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 Stead's primary station: STEAD (USC00267820). 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 Stead; 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 Stead 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.