Wabuska, NV Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Wabuska's primary NOAA station, WABUSKA 6 SE.
The climate verdict for Wabuska
Dryness leads the climate profile for Wabuska, Nevada, with 4.9 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 51°F. At 49/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 18% of scores.
- 51°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 49/100
- comfort score, above 18% of station-mapped location scores
- 4.9"
- annual precipitation · 2" snow
- 109 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Wabuska: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00268822 · Wabuska, NV 51°F mean · 4.9" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 51°F
- RANK-MID #2,950
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Virginia City
- PRCP-ARID 4.9"
- SWING-MID 43°F
- COMF-LOW 49/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,832 HDD
- STN-1 USC00268822
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Virginia City, NV (+ 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 NV station list.
- Wabuska (this station) 51°F
- Cold Mt Pleasant, PA 51°F
- Hot Fort Collins, CO 51°F
- Near Virginia City, NV 51°F
- Near Montgomery L&d, PA 51°F
Climate Living Index · Wabuska
Wabuska: 22/100 · grade F
Wabuska publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Wabuska, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 49/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Snowfall burden | 2.4 inches/year | 75/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 50.6°F · 16.9° from 67.5°F | 43/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 109 days/year | 2/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 4.9 in · 30.1 from 35 in | 1/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 270 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
Wabuska · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Wabuska's normals sit in a dry climate class: BWk
Annual precipitation falls well below the aridity threshold for this temperature regime, so the normals classify as cold desert (BWk). Class BWk is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically cold desert.
- Köppen code
- BWk
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 73.2°F
- Coldest month
- 29.9°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 · heating-led station
Where Wabuska sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Wabuska's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 43rd percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 99%
- Wabuska's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 50th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Wabuska compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Wabuska's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
49 18th percentile score exceeds 18% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Above this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Above this entry.
- 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49°F (9°C) | 15°F (-10°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 0.5" | 1.0" | 30.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 53°F (12°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 0.4" | 0.3" | 26.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 61°F (16°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 0.6" | 1.0" | 24.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 67°F (19°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 17.6 | 0.0 |
| May | 76°F (24°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 5.3 | 2.1 |
| June | 86°F (30°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.4" | 0.0" | 0.7 | 13.6 |
| July | 95°F (35°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 26.6 |
| August | 94°F (34°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 71°F (21°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 25.3 |
| September | 85°F (29°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 3.7 | 9.2 |
| October | 71°F (22°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 20.2 | 0.5 |
| November | 58°F (14°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 28.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 47°F (8°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 0.4" | 0.1" | 30.1 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Wabuska works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 97°F by July 22 and hold at or above 90°F on 69 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 201 dates, bottoming at 12°F around December 20.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 25 through September 1, covering 69 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 28 to October 18.
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 April 24, then returns to freezing around October 7, covering 201 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 January 7, when 14% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 26 at 4%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 34 wet dates a year.
The widest day
September 2 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 47°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Wabuska.
Where Wabuska Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 201 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Aridity defines the water calendar: about 5 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Wabuska 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: 1.0"
4.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
3.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.0"
3.5 days with precipitation
3.1 days with precipitation
4.4 days with precipitation
2.3 days with precipitation
1.9 days with precipitation
1.2 days with precipitation
1.2 days with precipitation
2.4 days with precipitation
2.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
3.8 days with precipitation
Wabuska spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 17% of the annual total and December through February 28%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Wabuska has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 43.3°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 0.8" and September 0.1". The three wettest months together take 39% 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.
Wabuska is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 34 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 9% of the calendar, and they carry 4.9" between them. At roughly 0.14 inches on an average wet day, this is not the damp drizzle of a marine climate; it is an arid record in which precipitation is both uncommon and light when it appears.
The wettest month by count is January at about 4 wet days; the driest is August at about 1.
A low per-event average in a dry record is a statement about typical days only. Arid regions can still take a large share of a year's total from a single convective storm, which a normal cannot show.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, not the extremes within it.
Snow reaches Wabuska, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 2.4 inches of snow a year here, most likely in January. 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 2 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
September 17
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 31
50% probability date
Growing Season
109 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,832
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
612
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NV closest to Wabuska 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 (51°F here).
- Bellefontaine, OH 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Bridgeport, NE 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Brighton, CO 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Delta, UT 51°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (4.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Barstow, CA 5.0" · 0.1" off
- Bishop, CA 4.8" · 0.1" off
- Palm Springs, CA 5.1" · 0.2" off
- Quartzsite, AZ 4.6" · 0.3" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Wabuska's limited precipitation lands
heating led · dry · mid swing
Wabuska's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,832 annual heating degree days against 612 for cooling. Its 43.3°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 109 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 December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Wabuska's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 43.3°F. The annual average is 51°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Wabuska's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 4.9 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Annual snowfall totals 2.4 inches. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
Wabuska wettest normal
May
May concentrates the scarce annual total (4.9 inches).
Wabuska driest normal
September
September is typically driest; arid stations are defined by when water is absent, not by a four-season grid.
Questions about Wabuska's climate
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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 Wabuska's primary station: WABUSKA 6 SE (USC00268822). 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 Wabuska; 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 Wabuska 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.