Tuttle Creek Lake, KS 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 Tuttle Creek Lake's primary NOAA station, TUTTLE CREEK LAKE.
The climate verdict for Tuttle Creek Lake
Tuttle Creek Lake, Kansas has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 54°F. Its climate comfort score of 68/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 56% of station-mapped location scores.
- 54°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 68/100
- comfort score, above 56% of station-mapped location scores
- 33.8"
- yearly precipitation total
- 181 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Tuttle Creek Lake: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00148259 · Tuttle Creek Lake, KS 54°F mean · 33.8" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 54°F
- RANK-MID #3,774
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bison
- PRCP-MID 33.8"
- SWING-WIDE 51°F
- COMF-MID 68/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,426 HDD
- STN-1 USC00148259
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Bison, KS ( -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 KS station list.
- Tuttle Creek La… (this station) 54°F
- Cold Bison, KS 54°F
- Hot St Joseph Rosec…, MO 54°F
- Near Hoxie, KS 54°F
- Near Centralia, KS 54°F
Climate Living Index · Tuttle Creek Lake
Tuttle Creek Lake: 61/100 · grade C
Tuttle Creek Lake publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Tuttle Creek Lake, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 68/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 33.8 in · 1.2 from 35 in | 93/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 53.6°F · 13.9° from 67.5°F | 55/100 · C |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 141 calendar days | 52/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 181 days/year | 51/100 · D |
Tuttle Creek Lake · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Tuttle Creek Lake is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 27.7°F and warmest-month mean 78.3°F place this station in continental, no dry season, hot summer climates (Dfa). Class Dfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 78.3°F
- Coldest month
- 27.7°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 Tuttle Creek Lake sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Tuttle Creek Lake's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 55th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 46th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 82%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Tuttle Creek Lake is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Tuttle Creek Lake compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Tuttle Creek Lake's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
68 Top 44% score exceeds 56% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Tuttle Creek Lake's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 46 complete annual observations from 1961 to 2024, TUTTLE CREEK LAKE warmed at a fitted rate of 0.17°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Tuttle Creek Lake primary station fitted change +0.17 °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 | 39°F (4°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 0.6" | 29.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 44°F (7°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 1.1" | 25.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 55°F (13°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.9" | 19.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 66°F (19°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 3.3" | 6.8 | 0.4 |
| May | 75°F (24°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 5.1" | 0.4 | 1.5 |
| June | 85°F (29°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 5.3" | 0.0 | 8.7 |
| July | 90°F (32°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 78°F (26°C) | 4.3" | 0.0 | 15.1 |
| August | 88°F (31°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 76°F (25°C) | 4.2" | 0.0 | 13.7 |
| September | 81°F (27°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 2.8" | 0.1 | 5.4 |
| October | 68°F (20°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 2.4" | 5.2 | 0.6 |
| November | 54°F (12°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 1.6" | 18.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 43°F (6°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 1.2" | 28.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Tuttle Creek Lake works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 90°F by July 21 and hold at or above 90°F on 9 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 132 dates, bottoming at 16°F around January 19.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 21 through July 29, covering 9 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 1 to October 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.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 20, then returns to freezing around November 10, covering 132 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 May 7, when 36% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 9 at 11%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 84 wet dates a year.
The widest day
October 8 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 27°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Tuttle Creek Lake.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
3.3 days with precipitation
4.0 days with precipitation
5.4 days with precipitation
9.6 days with precipitation
11.3 days with precipitation
10.0 days with precipitation
9.2 days with precipitation
8.8 days with precipitation
7.2 days with precipitation
7.5 days with precipitation
4.9 days with precipitation
3.5 days with precipitation
Tuttle Creek Lake runs a summer-peaked wet season
41% of Tuttle Creek Lake's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is June at 5.3", on a wide 50.6°F gap between its warmest and coldest month. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: June, May, July, taking 43% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: January at 0.6".
- Winter share: 9% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
When it rains in Tuttle Creek Lake, it arrives in quantity
33.8" of precipitation falls across only about 85 wet days here, averaging 0.40 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 85 a year, 23% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.40 inches
- Most wet days
- May, about 11
- Fewest wet days
- January, about 3
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 20
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 22
50% probability date
Growing Season
181 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,426
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,317
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside KS closest to Tuttle Creek 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 (54°F here).
- Brookfield, MO 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Capitan, NM 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Fairfield, OH 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Fairmont, WV 54°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (33.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Oconto, WI 33.8" · 0.0" off
- Waupaca, WI 33.8" · 0.0" off
- Chilton, WI 33.9" · 0.0" off
- Jefferson, OK 33.9" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Tuttle Creek Lake's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Tuttle Creek Lake's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,426 annual heating degree days against 1,317 for cooling. Its 50.6°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Tuttle Creek Lake's frost-free season lasts about 181 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 Tuttle Creek Lake's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 50.6°F. The annual average is 54°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Tuttle Creek Lake's 33.8 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Tuttle Creek Lake'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 Tuttle Creek Lake, 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 Tuttle Creek Lake's primary station: TUTTLE CREEK LAKE (USC00148259). 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 Tuttle Creek Lake; 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 Tuttle Creek 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.