Strawberry Valley, CA 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 Strawberry Valley's primary NOAA station, STRAWBERRY VALLEY.
The climate verdict for Strawberry Valley
Water is the standout signal in Strawberry Valley, California: 82.5 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 53°F. At 34/100 (below average) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 2% of scores.
- 53°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 34/100
- comfort score, above 2% of station-mapped location scores
- 82.5"
- annual precipitation · 82" snow
- 179 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Strawberry Valley: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00048606 · Strawberry Valley, CA 53°F mean · 82.5" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-NARROW · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 53°F
- RANK-MID #3,568
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Detroit Dam
- PRCP-WET 82.5"
- SWING-NARROW 29°F
- COMF-LOW 34/100
- LOAD-HEAT 4,895 HDD
- STN-1 USC00048606
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Detroit Dam, OR ( -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 CA station list.
- Strawberry Vall… (this station) 53°F
- Cold Detroit Dam, OR 53°F
- Hot Cataloochee, NC 53°F
- Near Cougar, WA 53°F
- Near Prospect, OR 53°F
Climate Living Index · Strawberry Valley
Strawberry Valley: 43/100 · grade D
Strawberry Valley publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Strawberry Valley, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 34/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 106 calendar days | 73/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 52.6°F · 14.9° from 67.5°F | 51/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 179 days/year | 49/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 82.0 inches/year | 5/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 82.5 in · 47.5 from 35 in | 0/100 · F |
Strawberry Valley · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Strawberry Valley is a temperate Köppen climate: Csb
Coldest-month mean 40.1°F and warmest-month mean 68.6°F place this station in temperate, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Csb). Class Csb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Csb
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 68.6°F
- Coldest month
- 40.1°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 Strawberry Valley sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Strawberry Valley's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 52nd percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 1% wettest
- Strawberry Valley's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 92%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Strawberry Valley is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Strawberry Valley compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Strawberry Valley's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
34 2nd percentile score exceeds 2% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Above this entry.
- 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
Strawberry Valley's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 59 complete annual observations from 1951 to 2021, STRAWBERRY VALLEY warmed at a fitted rate of 0.23°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Strawberry Valley primary station fitted change +0.24 °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 | 51°F (11°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 14.7" | 17.7" | 21.1 | 0.0 |
| February | 51°F (11°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 13.7" | 19.4" | 18.4 | 0.0 |
| March | 54°F (12°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 12.8" | 17.1" | 15.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 59°F (15°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 6.4" | 8.1" | 10.6 | 0.0 |
| May | 68°F (20°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 4.0" | 0.6" | 1.8 | 0.1 |
| June | 77°F (25°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 1.2" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 1.4 |
| July | 85°F (29°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 5.1 |
| August | 85°F (29°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 5.0 |
| September | 80°F (27°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 2.5 |
| October | 70°F (21°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 4.1" | 0.5" | 2.2 | 0.4 |
| November | 57°F (14°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 8.6" | 3.5" | 11.8 | 0.0 |
| December | 50°F (10°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 16.3" | 15.1" | 21.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 86°F around July 25, short of 90°F on every date, while 106 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 30°F near December 19.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 11, then returns to freezing around November 27, covering 106 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 43% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 22 at 2%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 86 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 16 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 Strawberry Valley.
Where Strawberry Valley Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 83 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Daily temperature swings run wider than most of the country, peaking near 33°F between the normal high and low.
Strawberry Valley 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: 17.7"
13.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 19.4"
12.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 17.1"
11.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.1"
9.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
7.2 days with precipitation
2.6 days with precipitation
0.5 days with precipitation
0.8 days with precipitation
2.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.5"
5.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.5"
9.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 15.1"
12.3 days with precipitation
Strawberry Valley's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 54% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 2%. 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 an unusually narrow 28.5°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- December, 16.3"
- Driest month
- July, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- December, January, February (54% 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.
When it rains in Strawberry Valley, it arrives in quantity
82.5" of precipitation falls across only about 85 wet days here, averaging 0.97 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 85 a year, 23% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.97 inches
- Most wet days
- January, about 13
- Fewest wet days
- July, about 1
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Winter brings real snow to Strawberry Valley
Strawberry Valley averages 82.0 inches of snowfall a year, with February the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 21 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: 82.0 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 21 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 10% 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 30
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 4
50% probability date
Growing Season
179 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,895
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
384
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Strawberry Valley 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 (53°F here).
- Buckhannon, WV 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Cascade Locks, OR 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Christiansburg, VA 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Cincinnati, OH 53°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (82.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Point Baker, AK 82.3" · 0.2" off
- Valdez, AK 82.1" · 0.4" off
- Darrington, WA 83.0" · 0.5" off
- Raymond, WA 83.7" · 1.1" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Strawberry Valley
heating led · wet · low swing
Heating is the larger measured load in Strawberry Valley, at 4,895 degree days versus 384 for cooling. Unlike a strongly continental record, however, its 28.5°F month-to-month range is compact; persistent cool-season demand matters more than a dramatic summer-to-winter reversal.
Strawberry Valley's frost-free season lasts about 179 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. Strawberry Valley coldest normal
December
The coldest month still averages 40°F (5°C), above freezing, so this calendar has no hard winter.
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2. Strawberry Valley typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Strawberry Valley snow peak
February
Strawberry Valley averages 82.0 inches of snow a year, with February 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 Strawberry Valley's primary station: STRAWBERRY VALLEY (USC00048606). 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 Strawberry Valley; 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 Strawberry Valley 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.