Taylor Park, CO Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Taylor Park's primary NOAA station, TAYLOR PARK.
The climate verdict for Taylor Park
Dryness leads the climate profile for Taylor Park, Colorado, with 18.8 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 35°F. At 40/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 6% of scores.
- 35°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 40/100
- comfort score, above 6% of station-mapped location scores
- 18.8"
- yearly precipitation total
- 80 days
- frost-free growing season
Taylor Park: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00058184 · Taylor Park, CO 35°F mean · 18.8" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 35°F
- RANK-COOL #69
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Leadville Lake…
- PRCP-DRY 18.8"
- SWING-WIDE 47°F
- COMF-LOW 40/100
- LOAD-HEAT 11,084 HDD
- STN-1 USC00058184
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Leadville Lake County, CO (+ 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 CO station list.
- Taylor Park (this station) 35°F
- Hot Silverton, CO 35°F
- Near Leadville Lake…, CO 35°F
- Cold Stanley, ID 34°F
- Near Old Faithful, WY 34°F
Climate Living Index · Taylor Park
Taylor Park: 9/100 · grade F
Taylor Park publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Taylor Park, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 40/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 18.8 in · 16.2 from 35 in | 43/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 34.5°F · 33.0° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 80 days/year | 0/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 249 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
Taylor Park · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Taylor Park is a continental Köppen climate: Dfc
Coldest-month mean 10.4°F and warmest-month mean 57.2°F place this station in continental, no dry season, cool summer climates (Dfc). Class Dfc is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, cool summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfc
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 57.2°F
- Coldest month
- 10.4°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 Taylor Park sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Taylor Park's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 99%
- Among 6,861 stations, Taylor Park sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 74%
- Taylor Park's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 67th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Taylor Park compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Taylor Park's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
40 6th percentile score exceeds 6% 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
Taylor Park's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 66 complete annual observations from 1941 to 2022, TAYLOR PARK warmed at a fitted rate of 0.20°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Taylor Park primary station fitted change +0.20 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29°F (-2°C) | -8°F (-22°C) | 10°F (-12°C) | 1.7" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 33°F (0°C) | -5°F (-21°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 1.6" | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 41°F (5°C) | 4°F (-15°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 1.3" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 47°F (8°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 1.6" | 29.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 58°F (14°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.5" | 24.8 | 0.0 |
| June | 69°F (21°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 0.9" | 8.0 | 0.0 |
| July | 72°F (22°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 1.9" | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| August | 70°F (21°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 2.2" | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| September | 64°F (18°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 1.6" | 12.5 | 0.0 |
| October | 54°F (12°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 1.4" | 27.1 | 0.0 |
| November | 40°F (4°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 1.4" | 29.8 | 0.0 |
| December | 28°F (-2°C) | -3°F (-20°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 1.7" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 73°F around July 10, short of 90°F on every date, while 249 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest -8°F near January 3.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 29, then returns to freezing around September 24, covering 249 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 August 3, when 40% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 10 at 21%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 102 wet dates a year.
The widest day
February 25 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 Taylor Park.
Where Taylor Park Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 249 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.
Taylor Park earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
8.0 days with precipitation
8.7 days with precipitation
7.8 days with precipitation
8.3 days with precipitation
8.2 days with precipitation
5.6 days with precipitation
11.6 days with precipitation
12.1 days with precipitation
8.2 days with precipitation
7.3 days with precipitation
7.7 days with precipitation
7.7 days with precipitation
Taylor Park spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 27% of the annual total and December through February 26%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Taylor Park has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 46.8°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: August averages 2.2" and June 0.9". 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.
Taylor Park is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 101 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 28% of the calendar, and they carry 18.8" between them. At roughly 0.19 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 August at about 12 wet days; the driest is June at about 6.
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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 8
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 20
50% probability date
Growing Season
80 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
11,084
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
0
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CO closest to Taylor Park 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 (35°F here).
- Skwentna, AK 35°F · 0.0°F off
- Stanley, ID 34°F · 0.1°F off
- Silver Gate, MT 34°F · 0.2°F off
- Cooke City, MT 34°F · 0.3°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (18.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Lakin, KS 18.8" · 0.0" off
- Dayton, WA 18.8" · 0.0" off
- Kenai, AK 18.8" · 0.0" off
- Rapid City, SD 18.8" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Taylor Park's climate pattern fits together
heating led · dry · mid swing
Taylor Park's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 11,084 annual heating degree days against 0 for cooling. Its 46.8°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 80 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.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Taylor Park's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 46.8°F. The annual average is 35°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Taylor Park's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 18.8 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 Taylor Park'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 Taylor Park, 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 Taylor Park's primary station: TAYLOR PARK (USC00058184). 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 Taylor Park; 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 Taylor Park 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.