Topaz Lake, NV 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 Topaz Lake's primary NOAA station, TOPAZ LAKE.
The climate verdict for Topaz Lake
Dryness leads the climate profile for Topaz Lake, Nevada, with 5.9 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 52°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.
- 52°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 5.9"
- annual precipitation · 18" snow
- 147 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Topaz Lake: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00268186 · Topaz Lake, NV 52°F mean · 5.9" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 52°F
- RANK-MID #3,362
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Orderville
- PRCP-ARID 5.9"
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,405 HDD
- STN-1 USC00268186
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Orderville, UT ( -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.
- Topaz Lake (this station) 52°F
- Cold Orderville, UT 52°F
- Hot Spanish Springs, NV 52°F
- Near Lowell Three Ri…, ID 52°F
- Near Santa FE County, NM 52°F
Climate Living Index · Topaz Lake
Topaz Lake: 26/100 · grade F
Topaz Lake publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Topaz Lake, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 18.3 inches/year | 51/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 51.9°F · 15.6° from 67.5°F | 49/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 147 days/year | 23/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 211 calendar days | 9/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 5.9 in · 29.1 from 35 in | 3/100 · F |
Topaz Lake · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Topaz Lake'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
- 73.4°F
- Coldest month
- 34.1°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 Topaz Lake sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Topaz Lake's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 49th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 99%
- Topaz Lake's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 33rd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Topaz Lake compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Topaz Lake'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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 47°F (8°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 0.6" | 5.8" | 27.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 51°F (10°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 0.4" | 3.0" | 25.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 58°F (14°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.1" | 3.1" | 22.2 | 0.0 |
| April | 63°F (17°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 0.3" | 0.3" | 12.6 | 0.0 |
| May | 72°F (22°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 56°F (14°C) | 0.6" | 0.0" | 2.4 | 0.5 |
| June | 82°F (28°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 7.9 |
| July | 92°F (33°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 23.5 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 20.1 |
| September | 82°F (28°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 1.0 | 5.1 |
| October | 70°F (21°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 11.3 | 0.2 |
| November | 56°F (13°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 0.7" | 1.5" | 22.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 46°F (8°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 1.0" | 4.6" | 27.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Topaz Lake works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 93°F by July 21 and hold at or above 90°F on 46 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 165 dates, bottoming at 21°F around December 20.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 6 through August 20, covering 46 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 11 to October 16.
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.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 11, then returns to freezing around October 30, covering 165 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 December 14, when 14% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 25 at 3%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 28 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 16 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 37°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Topaz Lake.
Where Topaz Lake Stands Nationally
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 6 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 37°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Topaz Lake 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: 5.8"
2.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.0"
2.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.1"
3.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
2.1 days with precipitation
3.1 days with precipitation
1.0 days with precipitation
1.7 days with precipitation
2.0 days with precipitation
1.3 days with precipitation
1.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.5"
2.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.6"
4.6 days with precipitation
Topaz Lake spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 12% of the annual total and December through February 34%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Topaz Lake has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 39.3°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: March averages 1.1" and June 0.1". The three wettest months together take 47% 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 Topaz Lake's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 28 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.
Winter brings real snow to Topaz Lake
Topaz Lake averages 18.3 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 8 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: 18.3 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 8 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 31% 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 6
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 12
50% probability date
Growing Season
147 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,405
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
663
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Topaz Lake 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 (52°F here).
- Atwood, KS 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Boston, MA 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Connellsville, PA 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Curtis, NE 52°F · 0.0°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
- Taft, CA 6.0" · 0.1" off
- Buttonwillow, CA 6.0" · 0.1" off
- Fort Duchesne, UT 6.0" · 0.1" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Topaz Lake
heating led · dry · mid swing
Topaz Lake's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,405 annual heating degree days against 663 for cooling. Its 39.3°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 147 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. Topaz Lake coldest normal
December
The monthly mean of 34°F (1°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Topaz Lake typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Topaz Lake snow peak
January
Topaz Lake averages 18.3 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 Topaz Lake's primary station: TOPAZ LAKE (USC00268186). 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 3274200), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Topaz Lake: 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 Topaz Lake 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.