Valley of Fire State Park, NV Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Valley of Fire State Park's primary NOAA station, VALLEY OF FIRE SP.
The climate verdict for Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada is cooling-led and dry. Its 6.3 inches of annual precipitation pairs with an annual average of 70°F. It scores 80/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 76% of them.
- 70°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 80/100
- comfort score, above 76% of station-mapped location scores
- 6.3"
- yearly precipitation total
- 324 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Valley of Fire State Park: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00268588 · Valley of Fire State Park, NV 70°F mean · 6.3" precip
TEMP-HOT · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-TOP · LOAD-COOL · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-HOT 70°F
- RANK-WARM #6,518
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Baker
- PRCP-ARID 6.3"
- SWING-WIDE 46°F
- COMF-TOP 80/100
- LOAD-COOL 3,805 CDD
- STN-1 USC00268588
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Baker, CA (+ 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.
- Valley of Fire… (this station) 70°F
- Cold N Las Vegas, NV 70°F
- Hot Echo Bay, NV 70°F
- Near Baker, CA 70°F
- Near Las Vegas Mccar…, NV 70°F
Climate Living Index · Valley of Fire State Park
Valley of Fire State Park: 66/100 · grade C
Valley of Fire State Park publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Valley of Fire State Park, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 80/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 324 days/year | 100/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 70.2°F · 2.7° from 67.5°F | 92/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.3 inches/year | 88/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 135 calendar days | 56/100 · C |
| Precipitation balance | 6.3 in · 28.7 from 35 in | 4/100 · F |
Valley of Fire State Park · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Valley of Fire State Park's normals sit in a dry climate class: BWh
Annual precipitation falls well below the aridity threshold for this temperature regime, so the normals classify as hot desert (BWh). Class BWh is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically hot desert.
- Köppen code
- BWh
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 93.7°F
- Coldest month
- 48.1°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 · cooling-led station
Where Valley of Fire State Park sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Valley of Fire State Park's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 5% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Valley of Fire State Park sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 98%
- Valley of Fire State Park's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 62nd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Valley of Fire State Park compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Valley of Fire State Park's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
80 Top 24% score exceeds 76% 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 | 58°F (15°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 3.6 | 0.0 |
| February | 63°F (17°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 1.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 71°F (22°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| April | 79°F (26°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 4.2 |
| May | 89°F (32°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 16.7 |
| June | 100°F (38°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 88°F (31°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 27.7 |
| July | 105°F (41°C) | 82°F (28°C) | 94°F (34°C) | 0.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 30.8 |
| August | 104°F (40°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 92°F (33°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 30.5 |
| September | 96°F (36°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 84°F (29°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 25.8 |
| October | 83°F (28°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 7.5 |
| November | 68°F (20°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| December | 57°F (14°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 0.8" | 0.3" | 3.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Valley of Fire State Park runs from a mild 39°F around December 20 to 106°F at the peak near July 17, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from May 19 through September 30, covering 135 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 13 to November 11.
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 39°F around December 20.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is February 20, when 15% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 10 at 2%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 28 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 5 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 25°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Valley of Fire State Park.
Where Valley of Fire State Park Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 135 days a year the normal daily high itself reaches 90°F — a count fewer than one station in ten exceeds.
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 6 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Valley of Fire State Park 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
3.5 days with precipitation
4.2 days with precipitation
3.7 days with precipitation
1.9 days with precipitation
1.1 days with precipitation
0.6 days with precipitation
2.1 days with precipitation
2.1 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
2.2 days with precipitation
2.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
3.5 days with precipitation
Valley of Fire State Park's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 43% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 18%. 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 a wide 45.6°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
- Wettest month
- February, 1.1"
- Driest month
- June, 0.1"
- Wettest three months
- February, December, January (43% 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.
How Valley of Fire State Park's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 29 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 6.3" 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.
Snow reaches Valley of Fire State Park, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 0.3 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 0 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
December 13
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
January 23
50% probability date
Growing Season
324 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
1,863
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
3,805
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Valley of Fire State Park 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 (70°F here).
- Eagle Pass, TX 70°F · 0.0°F off
- Karnes City, TX 70°F · 0.0°F off
- Port Aransas, TX 70°F · 0.0°F off
- Roosevelt, AZ 70°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (6.3" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Tuba City, AZ 6.3" · 0.0" off
- Mexican Hat, UT 6.3" · 0.0" off
- Yucca Valley, CA 6.3" · 0.0" off
- Gila Bend, AZ 6.3" · 0.0" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Valley of Fire State Park's limited precipitation lands
cooling led · dry · mid swing
Air-conditioning demand is the clearest thermal signal here. Valley of Fire State Park accumulates 3,805 cooling degree days, more than twice its 1,863 heating total; the monthly table shows when that imbalance builds rather than treating it as a year-round condition.
Heat demand sits beside limited local precipitation: Valley of Fire State Park receives 6.3 inches in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's dry range. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. Month-level precipitation is the useful check on when that small annual total arrives.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Valley of Fire State Park's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 45.6°F. The annual average is 70°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Valley of Fire State Park has a long frost-free window of roughly 324 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
Valley of Fire State Park wettest normal
February
February concentrates the scarce annual total (6.3 inches).
Valley of Fire State Park 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 Valley of Fire State Park's primary station: VALLEY OF FIRE SP (USC00268588). 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 of Fire State Park; 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 of Fire State Park 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.