Valley Ctr, CA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Valley Ctr's primary NOAA station, VALLEY CTR 1N.
The climate verdict for Valley Ctr
Dryness leads the climate profile for Valley Ctr, California, with 16.7 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 63°F. It scores 85/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 85% of them.
- 63°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 85/100
- comfort score, above 85% of station-mapped location scores
- 16.7"
- yearly precipitation total
- 285 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Valley Ctr: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00049226 · Valley Ctr, CA 63°F mean · 16.7" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-NARROW · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 63°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,626
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Chesterfield
- PRCP-DRY 16.7"
- SWING-NARROW 24°F
- COMF-TOP 85/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00049226
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Chesterfield, SC (+ 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 CA station list.
- Valley Ctr (this station) 63°F
- Hot Dillon, SC 63°F
- Near Chesterfield, SC 63°F
- Near Childress, TX 63°F
- Near Des Arc, AR 63°F
Climate Living Index · Valley Ctr
Valley Ctr: 76/100 · grade B
Valley Ctr publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Valley Ctr, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 85/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 285 days/year | 98/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 62.7°F · 4.8° from 67.5°F | 85/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 75 calendar days | 84/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 16.7 in · 18.3 from 35 in | 35/100 · F |
Valley Ctr · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Valley Ctr is a temperate Köppen climate: Csa
Coldest-month mean 51.9°F and warmest-month mean 75.9°F place this station in temperate, dry-summer, hot summer climates (Csa). Class Csa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, dry-summer, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Csa
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 75.9°F
- Coldest month
- 51.9°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 Valley Ctr sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Valley Ctr's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 18% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Valley Ctr sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 79%
- Valley Ctr's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 95%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Valley Ctr is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Valley Ctr compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Valley Ctr's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
85 Top 15% score exceeds 85% 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 | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 68°F (20°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 3.2" | 4.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 67°F (20°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 3.9" | 6.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 71°F (22°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 2.5" | 0.5 | 1.0 |
| April | 75°F (24°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 1.3" | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| May | 77°F (25°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 0.4" | 0.0 | 4.0 |
| June | 84°F (29°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 8.8 |
| July | 91°F (33°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 23.0 |
| August | 93°F (34°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 23.5 |
| September | 91°F (33°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 0.2" | 0.0 | 19.0 |
| October | 83°F (29°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 65°F (19°C) | 0.9" | 0.3 | 10.0 |
| November | 76°F (24°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 1.6" | 0.8 | 3.0 |
| December | 67°F (20°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 2.5" | 6.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Valley Ctr runs from a mild 36°F around December 15 to 94°F at the peak near August 28, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 8 through September 20, covering 75 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 12 to December 1.
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 15.
The widest day
October 26 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 Valley Ctr.
Where Valley Ctr Stands Nationally
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.
Heat is a defining feature of the normals calendar — the normal daily high reaches 90°F on roughly 75 days a year, more than four out of five ranked stations record.
Valley Ctr earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Valley Ctr's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 57% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 2%. That is the cool-season-dominant pattern of the West Coast and the higher inland West, where storm tracks swing south in winter and summer turns dry; the thermometer meanwhile shows an unusually narrow 24°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 3.9"
- Driest month
- July, 0.1"
- Wettest three months
- February, January, December (57% of the year)
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A cool-season label means the December-February share reaches 35%. Where snow falls, the monthly figures above report liquid-equivalent precipitation, so a wet winter month is not necessarily a rainy one.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
December 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
February 19
50% probability date
Growing Season
285 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
1,955
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,150
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
August
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Valley Ctr 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 (63°F here).
- Chesterfield, SC 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Des Arc, AR 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Dillon, SC 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Georgetown, GA 63°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (16.7" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Minot, ND 16.7" · 0.0" off
- Bushnell, NE 16.7" · 0.0" off
- Elida, NM 16.7" · 0.0" off
- Lewistown, MT 16.8" · 0.1" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Valley Ctr's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · dry · low swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 16.7 inches annually, within PlainClimate's dry band. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The monthly distribution matters because the total alone does not reveal the timing.
The calendar stays thermally compact and dry. August and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar, only 24.0°F apart, while the annual precipitation total remains below PlainClimate's dry threshold. The annual average is 63°F. The monthly rows show whether that limited precipitation is spread through the year or concentrated in a shorter interval.
Valley Ctr combines a compact 24.0°F annual temperature range with meaningful demand on both sides of the thermostat: 1,955 heating and 1,150 cooling degree days. The balance matters more here than either annual total in isolation.
Valley Ctr has a long frost-free window of roughly 285 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Valley Ctr's primary station, where heating and cooling demand are close enough that neither season sets the character on its own. On a balanced station like Valley Ctr, the bands are descriptive ranges rather than an official NOAA classification or a 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 Valley Ctr's primary station: VALLEY CTR 1N (USC00049226). 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 Valley Ctr; 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 Valley Ctr 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.