Steamboat Springs, CO Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Steamboat Springs's primary NOAA station, STEAMBOAT SPRINGS.
The climate verdict for Steamboat Springs
Steamboat Springs, Colorado has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 41°F. At 44/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 10% of scores.
- 41°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 24.7"
- annual precipitation · 185" snow
- 95 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Steamboat Springs: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00057936 · Steamboat Springs, CO 41°F mean · 24.7" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 41°F
- RANK-COOL #480
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Mtn View
- PRCP-DRY 24.7"
- SWING-WIDE 48°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 8,871 HDD
- STN-1 USC00057936
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Mtn View, WY (+ 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.
- Steamboat Sprin… (this station) 41°F
- Cold Wilsall, MT 41°F
- Hot Millegan, MT 41°F
- Near Mtn View, WY 41°F
- Near Holden Village, WA 41°F
Climate Living Index · Steamboat Springs
Steamboat Springs: 14/100 · grade F
Steamboat Springs publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Steamboat Springs, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 24.7 in · 10.3 from 35 in | 64/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 40.8°F · 26.7° from 67.5°F | 6/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 223 calendar days | 4/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 95 days/year | 0/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 184.5 inches/year | 0/100 · F |
Steamboat Springs · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Steamboat Springs is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 16.9°F and warmest-month mean 64.5°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
- 64.5°F
- Coldest month
- 16.9°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 Steamboat Springs sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Steamboat Springs's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 93%
- Among 6,861 stations, Steamboat Springs sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 34th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 71%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Steamboat Springs is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Steamboat Springs compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Steamboat Springs's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
44 10th percentile score exceeds 10% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Above this entry.
- 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
Steamboat Springs's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 88 complete annual observations from 1897 to 2025, STEAMBOAT SPRINGS warmed at a fitted rate of 0.16°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Steamboat Springs primary station fitted change +0.16 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29°F (-2°C) | 5°F (-15°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 2.5" | 46.6" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 34°F (1°C) | 8°F (-13°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 1.9" | 35.7" | 27.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 45°F (7°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 1.6" | 19.5" | 30.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 54°F (12°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 2.5" | 13.2" | 27.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 65°F (18°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 2.6" | 2.8" | 14.4 | 0.0 |
| June | 76°F (24°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 1.6" | 0.3" | 3.4 | 0.6 |
| July | 83°F (28°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 1.7" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 3.6 |
| August | 82°F (28°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 1.8" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 2.0 |
| September | 74°F (23°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 2.3" | 0.4" | 10.5 | 0.2 |
| October | 59°F (15°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 2.2" | 6.9" | 26.6 | 0.0 |
| November | 43°F (6°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 1.9" | 23.3" | 29.5 | 0.0 |
| December | 30°F (-1°C) | 6°F (-14°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 2.0" | 35.8" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 84°F around July 21, short of 90°F on every date, while 223 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 4°F near January 1.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 6, then returns to freezing around September 27, covering 223 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 January 25, when 47% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 27 at 26%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 136 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 7 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 38°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Steamboat Springs.
Where Steamboat Springs Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 223 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 38°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Steamboat Springs 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: 46.6"
14.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 35.7"
13.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 19.5"
10.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 13.2"
12.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.8"
12.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
8.3 days with precipitation
9.4 days with precipitation
11.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
9.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.9"
9.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 23.3"
10.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 35.8"
13.4 days with precipitation
Steamboat Springs spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 21% of the annual total and December through February 26%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Steamboat Springs has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 47.6°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 2.6" and June 1.6". The three wettest months together take 31% 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 Steamboat Springs in small, frequent amounts
Steamboat Springs records about 136 days with measurable precipitation a year and 24.7" in total, which works out to roughly 0.18 inches on an average wet day. Precipitation on 37% 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: January, about 15 of them.
- Fewest: June, about 8.
- Average depth per wet day: 0.18 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.
Winter brings real snow to Steamboat Springs
Steamboat Springs averages 184.5 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 73 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: 184.5 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 73 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 75% 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
September 12
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 9
50% probability date
Growing Season
95 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
8,871
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
75
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CO closest to Steamboat Springs 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 (41°F here).
- Morrisville, VT 41°F · 0.0°F off
- Underwood, ND 41°F · 0.0°F off
- Gordon, WI 41°F · 0.1°F off
- Houlton, ME 41°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (24.7" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Callaway, NE 24.7" · 0.0" off
- Georgetown, MN 24.7" · 0.0" off
- Cle Elum, WA 24.7" · 0.0" off
- Watertown, SD 24.6" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Steamboat Springs
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Steamboat Springs's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 8,871 annual heating degree days against 75 for cooling. Its 47.6°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 95 days are frost-free in a normal year. That short interval is consistent with the cold-season signal, but the measure does not predict the exact first or last freeze in any one year.
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1. Steamboat Springs coldest normal
January
Averaging 17°F (-8°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Steamboat Springs typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Steamboat Springs snow peak
January
Steamboat Springs averages 184.5 inches of snow a year, with January 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 Steamboat Springs's primary station: STEAMBOAT SPRINGS (USC00057936). 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 an incorporated place (GEOID 0873825). Match rule for Steamboat Springs: 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 Steamboat Springs 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.