Temple Bar, AZ Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Temple Bar's primary NOAA station, TEMPLE BAR.
The climate verdict for Temple Bar
Temple Bar, Arizona is cooling-led and dry. Its 5.9 inches of annual precipitation pairs with an annual average of 71°F. It scores 80/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 76% of them.
- 71°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 80/100
- comfort score, above 76% of station-mapped location scores
- 5.9"
- yearly precipitation total
- 309 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Temple Bar: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00028516 · Temple Bar, AZ 71°F mean · 5.9" precip
TEMP-HOT · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-TOP · LOAD-COOL · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-HOT 71°F
- RANK-WARM #6,587
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Echo Bay
- PRCP-ARID 5.9"
- SWING-WIDE 48°F
- COMF-TOP 80/100
- LOAD-COOL 4,048 CDD
- STN-1 USC00028516
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Echo Bay, NV ( -0.5 °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 AZ station list.
- Hot Alan Bible Visi…, NV 72°F
- Temple Bar (this station) 71°F
- Cold Valley of Fire…, NV 70°F
- Near Echo Bay, NV 70°F
- Near Baker, CA 70°F
Climate Living Index · Temple Bar
Temple Bar: 63/100 · grade C
Temple Bar publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Temple Bar, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 80/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 309 days/year | 100/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 70.8°F · 3.3° from 67.5°F | 90/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.0 inches/year | 90/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 148 calendar days | 48/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 5.9 in · 29.1 from 35 in | 3/100 · F |
Temple Bar · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Temple Bar's normals sit in a dry climate class: BWh
Annual precipitation falls well below the aridity threshold for this temperature regime, so the normals classify as hot desert (BWh). Class BWh is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically hot desert.
- Köppen code
- BWh
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 95.7°F
- Coldest month
- 47.5°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 · cooling-led station
Where Temple Bar sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Temple Bar's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 4% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Temple Bar sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 99%
- Temple Bar's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 74%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Temple Bar is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Temple Bar compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Temple Bar's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
80 Top 24% score exceeds 76% 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%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Below this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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 | 60°F (15°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 5.1 | 0.0 |
| February | 65°F (18°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 1.7 | 0.0 |
| March | 73°F (23°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 0.8 |
| April | 83°F (28°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 7.8 |
| May | 93°F (34°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 21.6 |
| June | 104°F (40°C) | 74°F (24°C) | 89°F (32°C) | 0.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 28.4 |
| July | 109°F (43°C) | 82°F (28°C) | 96°F (35°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 30.8 |
| August | 107°F (42°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 94°F (35°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 30.9 |
| September | 99°F (37°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 85°F (30°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 27.7 |
| October | 84°F (29°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 10.1 |
| November | 69°F (20°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 58°F (14°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 6.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Temple Bar runs from a mild 36°F around December 22 to 110°F at the peak near July 18, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from May 10 through October 4, covering 148 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 8 to November 12.
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.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 36°F around December 22.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is February 23, when 16% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is May 19 at 2%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 26 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 15 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 30°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Temple Bar.
Where Temple Bar Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 148 days a year the normal daily high itself reaches 90°F — a count fewer than one station in ten exceeds.
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 6 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Temple Bar 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
3.9 days with precipitation
4.6 days with precipitation
3.6 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
0.5 days with precipitation
0.7 days with precipitation
1.9 days with precipitation
1.7 days with precipitation
1.7 days with precipitation
2.0 days with precipitation
1.8 days with precipitation
2.2 days with precipitation
Temple Bar spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 20% of the annual total and December through February 34%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Temple Bar has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 48.2°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: July averages 0.8" and June 0.0". The three wettest months together take 39% 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.
How Temple Bar's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 26 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 5.9" between them, or roughly 0.22 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.
Temple Bar's record shows no measurable snowfall
This station measured snowfall across the 1991-2020 period and recorded none: the annual normal is 0.0 inches. That is a measured zero rather than missing data, which is a meaningful distinction here , most stations in the database simply do not report snow at all, and those pages say nothing about it.
A thirty-year normal of zero describes the typical year at this station. It is not a claim that snow has never fallen in the area.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
December 10
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
February 4
50% probability date
Growing Season
309 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
1,875
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
4,048
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AZ closest to Temple Bar 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 (71°F here).
- Austwell, TX 71°F · 0.0°F off
- El Campo, TX 71°F · 0.1°F off
- Goliad, TX 71°F · 0.1°F off
- Angleton, TX 71°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (5.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Palmdale, CA 5.9" · 0.0" off
- Topaz Lake, NV 5.9" · 0.1" off
- Bunkerville, NV 5.9" · 0.1" off
- Mojave, CA 5.8" · 0.1" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Temple Bar's limited precipitation lands
cooling led · dry · mid swing
Air-conditioning demand is the clearest thermal signal here. Temple Bar accumulates 4,048 cooling degree days, more than twice its 1,875 heating total; the monthly table shows when that imbalance builds rather than treating it as a year-round condition.
Heat demand sits beside limited local precipitation: Temple Bar receives 5.9 inches in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's dry range. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. Month-level precipitation is the useful check on when that small annual total arrives.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Temple Bar's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 48.2°F. The annual average is 71°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Temple Bar has a long frost-free window of roughly 309 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
Temple Bar wettest normal
July
July concentrates the scarce annual total (5.9 inches).
Temple Bar driest normal
June
June 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 Temple Bar's primary station: TEMPLE BAR (USC00028516). 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 Temple Bar; 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 Temple Bar 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.