Tuzigoot, 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 Tuzigoot's primary NOAA station, TUZIGOOT.
The climate verdict for Tuzigoot
Dryness leads the climate profile for Tuzigoot, Arizona, with 12.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 64°F. It scores 83/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 81% of them.
- 64°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 83/100
- comfort score, above 81% of station-mapped location scores
- 12.0"
- annual precipitation · 1" snow
- 225 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Tuzigoot: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00028904 · Tuzigoot, AZ 64°F mean · 12.0" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 64°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,763
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alvord
- PRCP-DRY 12.0"
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-TOP 83/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00028904
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Alvord, TX (+ 0 °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.
- Tuzigoot (this station) 64°F
- Hot Ash Mtn, CA 64°F
- Near Alvord, TX 64°F
- Near Andrews, SC 64°F
- Near Arkansas Post, AR 64°F
Climate Living Index · Tuzigoot
Tuzigoot: 52/100 · grade D
Tuzigoot publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Tuzigoot, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 83/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 63.5°F · 4.0° from 67.5°F | 88/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 1.0 inches/year | 83/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 225 days/year | 79/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 12.0 in · 23.0 from 35 in | 18/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 203 calendar days | 12/100 · F |
Tuzigoot · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Tuzigoot's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSk
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: cold semi-arid steppe (BSk). Class BSk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 83.9°F
- Coldest month
- 44.6°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 · balanced station
Where Tuzigoot sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Tuzigoot's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 16% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Tuzigoot sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 90%
- Tuzigoot'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 Tuzigoot compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Tuzigoot's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
83 Top 19% score exceeds 81% 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 | 61°F (16°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 1.1" | 0.2" | 18.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 65°F (18°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 1.0" | 0.1" | 10.7 | 0.0 |
| March | 71°F (22°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 1.0" | 0.1" | 4.2 | 0.1 |
| April | 79°F (26°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 0.4" | 0.2" | 1.0 | 2.6 |
| May | 88°F (31°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 13.8 |
| June | 99°F (37°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 26.9 |
| July | 101°F (38°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 84°F (29°C) | 1.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 29.8 |
| August | 98°F (37°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 82°F (28°C) | 2.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 27.7 |
| September | 93°F (34°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 1.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 21.6 |
| October | 83°F (28°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 5.3 |
| November | 71°F (21°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 0.7" | 0.1" | 7.5 | 0.0 |
| December | 60°F (15°C) | 29°F (-1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 1.1" | 0.3" | 20.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Tuzigoot works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 102°F by July 3 and hold at or above 90°F on 127 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 76 dates, bottoming at 29°F around December 19.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from May 22 through September 25, covering 127 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 12 to November 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 February 11, then returns to freezing around November 28, covering 76 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 1, when 27% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 6 at 5%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 53 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 11 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 40°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Tuzigoot.
Where Tuzigoot Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 127 days a year the normal daily high itself reaches 90°F — a count fewer than one station in ten exceeds.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 40°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Tuzigoot 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: 0.2"
4.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
5.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
4.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
2.7 days with precipitation
2.5 days with precipitation
1.3 days with precipitation
7.5 days with precipitation
8.4 days with precipitation
4.9 days with precipitation
3.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
3.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
4.4 days with precipitation
Tuzigoot spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 33% of the annual total and December through February 27%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Tuzigoot 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: August averages 2.1" and June 0.2". The three wettest months together take 42% 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 Tuzigoot's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 53 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 12.0" between them, or roughly 0.23 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.
Snow reaches Tuzigoot, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 1.0 inches of snow a year here, most likely in December. That is a real but marginal amount: enough that snow is part of the local record, not enough to define the winter.
A figure in this range usually reflects a handful of events that melt quickly rather than a season of accumulation; about 1 days a year record any measurable snow at all.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. An average across thirty years can smooth away a single heavy winter, so a small annual figure does not mean a significant snowfall is impossible.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 10
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 30
50% probability date
Growing Season
225 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,657
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
2,136
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AZ closest to Tuzigoot 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 (64°F here).
- Alvord, TX 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Andrews, SC 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Bonham, TX 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Hemingway, SC 64°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (12.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Kremmling, CO 12.0" · 0.0" off
- Camarillo, CA 12.0" · 0.0" off
- Long Beach, CA 12.0" · 0.0" off
- Chelan, WA 12.0" · 0.0" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Tuzigoot's limited precipitation lands
mixed demand · dry · mid swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 12.0 inches annually, within PlainClimate's dry band. Annual snowfall totals 1.0 inches. The monthly distribution matters because the total alone does not reveal the timing.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Tuzigoot's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 39.3°F. The annual average is 64°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Tuzigoot's normal, at 2,657 and 2,136 degree days respectively. Neither total exceeds the other by more than two to one, so the record is better read as a mixed-demand calendar than as heating-led or cooling-led.
A roughly 225-day frost-free season sits inside this mixed heating-and-cooling profile. Start and end dates matter because both sides of the thermostat register during a normal year.
Tuzigoot wettest normal
August
August concentrates the scarce annual total (12.0 inches).
Tuzigoot 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 Tuzigoot's primary station: TUZIGOOT (USC00028904). 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 Tuzigoot; 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 Tuzigoot 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.