Sutcliffe, NV 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 Sutcliffe's primary NOAA station, SUTCLIFFE.
The climate verdict for Sutcliffe
Dryness leads the climate profile for Sutcliffe, Nevada, with 7.4 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 54°F. At 53/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 54°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 53/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 7.4"
- annual precipitation · 4" snow
- 210 days
- frost-free growing season
Sutcliffe: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00267953 · Sutcliffe, NV 54°F mean · 7.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 54°F
- RANK-MID #3,979
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Clayton
- PRCP-ARID 7.4"
- SWING-MID 40°F
- COMF-LOW 53/100
- LOAD-HEAT 4,816 HDD
- STN-1 USC00267953
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Clayton Muni Air Park, 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.
- Hot Warnock, KY 55°F
- Sutcliffe (this station) 54°F
- Cold Boston, VA 54°F
- Near Clayton, NM 54°F
- Near Walla Walla Rgnl, WA 54°F
Climate Living Index · Sutcliffe
Sutcliffe: 59/100 · grade C
Sutcliffe publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Sutcliffe, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 53/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 74 calendar days | 84/100 · B |
| Snowfall burden | 4.2 inches/year | 72/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 210 days/year | 71/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 54.4°F · 13.1° from 67.5°F | 57/100 · C |
| Precipitation balance | 7.4 in · 27.6 from 35 in | 6/100 · F |
Sutcliffe · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Sutcliffe's normals sit in a dry climate class: BWk
Annual precipitation falls well below the aridity threshold for this temperature regime, so the normals classify as cold desert (BWk). Class BWk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold desert.
- Köppen code
- BWk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 76.1°F
- Coldest month
- 36.2°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 Sutcliffe sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Sutcliffe's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 58th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 98%
- Sutcliffe's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 35th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Sutcliffe compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Sutcliffe's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
53 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
Sutcliffe's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 30 complete annual observations from 1969 to 2025, SUTCLIFFE warmed at a fitted rate of 0.36°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Sutcliffe primary station fitted change +0.36 °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 | 43°F (6°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 1.3" | 1.3" | 20.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 47°F (8°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 0.8" | 1.0" | 14.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 54°F (12°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 0.8" | 0.6" | 8.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 60°F (16°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 0.5" | 0.2" | 3.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 69°F (21°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| June | 79°F (26°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 4.1 |
| July | 88°F (31°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 15.5 |
| August | 86°F (30°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 9.9 |
| September | 78°F (25°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.3 |
| October | 64°F (18°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| November | 52°F (11°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 0.8" | 0.4" | 7.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 44°F (7°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 1.0" | 0.7" | 19.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 89°F around July 24, short of 90°F on every date, while 74 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 29°F near January 1.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into February 15, then returns to freezing around December 4, covering 74 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 17, when 19% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 23 at 4%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 44 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 7 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 23°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Sutcliffe.
Where Sutcliffe Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 7 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 23°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Sutcliffe 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: 1.3"
5.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.0"
5.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
4.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
4.5 days with precipitation
4.6 days with precipitation
2.9 days with precipitation
1.4 days with precipitation
1.3 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
2.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
4.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.7"
5.1 days with precipitation
Sutcliffe's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 42% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 12%. 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 39.9°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- January, 1.3"
- Driest month
- August, 0.2"
- Wettest three months
- January, December, February (42% 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.
Sutcliffe is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 45 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 12% of the calendar, and they carry 7.4" between them. At roughly 0.17 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 January at about 6 wet days; the driest is August at about 1.
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.
Snow reaches Sutcliffe, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 4.2 inches of snow a year here, most likely in January. That is a real but marginal amount: enough that snow is part of the local record, not enough to define the winter.
A figure in this range usually reflects a handful of events that melt quickly rather than a season of accumulation; about 2 days a year record any measurable snow at all.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. An average across thirty years can smooth away a single heavy winter, so a small annual figure does not mean a significant snowfall is impossible.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 11
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 15
50% probability date
Growing Season
210 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,816
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
965
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Sutcliffe 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 (54°F here).
- Arlington, OR 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Bent Creek, NC 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Bloomfield, NM 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Charleston, WV 54°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (7.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Bruneau, ID 7.4" · 0.0" off
- Quincy, WA 7.5" · 0.1" off
- Fruitland, NM 7.3" · 0.1" off
- Kettleman City, CA 7.5" · 0.1" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Sutcliffe's limited precipitation lands
heating led · dry · mid swing
Sutcliffe's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 4,816 annual heating degree days against 965 for cooling. Its 39.9°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Sutcliffe's frost-free season lasts about 210 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Sutcliffe's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 39.9°F. The annual average is 54°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Sutcliffe's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 7.4 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Annual snowfall totals 4.2 inches. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
Sutcliffe wettest normal
January
January concentrates the scarce annual total (7.4 inches).
Sutcliffe driest normal
August
August is typically driest; arid stations are defined by when water is absent, not by a four-season grid.
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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 Sutcliffe's primary station: SUTCLIFFE (USC00267953). 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 a census-designated place (GEOID 3271800), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Sutcliffe: 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 Sutcliffe 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.