Tres Piedras, NM Climate: Temperature 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 Tres Piedras's primary NOAA station, TRES PIEDRAS.
The climate verdict for Tres Piedras
Tres Piedras, New Mexico has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 44°F. July is the warmest month at 65°F and January the coldest at 23°F.
- 44°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 120 days
- frost-free growing season
Tres Piedras: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00299085 · Tres Piedras, NM 44°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 44°F
- RANK-COOL #892
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Crestone
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 42°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 7,866 HDD
- STN-1 USC00299085
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Crestone, 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 NM station list.
- Tres Piedras (this station) 44°F
- Hot Vallecito Dam, CO 44°F
- Near Crestone, CO 44°F
- Near Guffey, CO 44°F
- Cold Bright Angel Ra…, AZ 43°F
Climate Living Index · Tres Piedras
Tres Piedras: 10/100 · grade F
Tres Piedras publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Tres Piedras, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 43.5°F · 24.0° from 67.5°F | 14/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 120 days/year | 7/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 218 calendar days | 6/100 · F |
Tres Piedras · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Tres Piedras sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Tres Piedras are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 87%
- Among 6,861 stations, Tres Piedras sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 45th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38°F (3°C) | 8°F (-13°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | N/A | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 41°F (5°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | N/A | 27.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 50°F (10°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 35°F (2°C) | N/A | 30.2 | 0.0 |
| April | 59°F (15°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 42°F (6°C) | N/A | 26.2 | 0.0 |
| May | 66°F (19°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 50°F (10°C) | N/A | 10.8 | 0.0 |
| June | 79°F (26°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 61°F (16°C) | N/A | 3.1 | 0.3 |
| July | 81°F (27°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 65°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.5 | 0.9 |
| August | 78°F (26°C) | 47°F (9°C) | 63°F (17°C) | N/A | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| September | 72°F (22°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 56°F (13°C) | N/A | 3.3 | 0.0 |
| October | 62°F (16°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 45°F (7°C) | N/A | 22.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 48°F (9°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 33°F (0°C) | N/A | 29.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 39°F (4°C) | 10°F (-12°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | N/A | 30.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 83°F around July 1, short of 90°F on every date, while 218 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 8°F near January 11.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 12, then returns to freezing around October 8, covering 218 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.
The widest day
June 18 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 37°F between the normal high and the normal low.
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Where Tres Piedras Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 218 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 37°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Tres Piedras earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 28
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 31
50% probability date
Growing Season
120 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,866
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
69
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NM closest to Tres Piedras 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 (44°F here).
- Alpena, MI 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Amery, WI 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Blanca, CO 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Bynum, MT 44°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Tres Piedras's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Tres Piedras's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,866 annual heating degree days against 69 for cooling. Its 42.1°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 120 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 Tres Piedras's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 42.1°F. The annual average is 44°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Tres Piedras's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Tres Piedras'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 Tres Piedras, 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 Tres Piedras's primary station: TRES PIEDRAS (USC00299085). 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 Tres Piedras; 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 Tres Piedras 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.