Whiskeytown Rsvr, CA 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 Whiskeytown Rsvr's primary NOAA station, WHISKEYTOWN RSVR.
The climate verdict for Whiskeytown Rsvr
Water is the standout signal in Whiskeytown Rsvr, California: 62.9 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 63°F. It scores 76/100 for climate comfort (good), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 69% of them.
- 63°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 76/100
- comfort score, above 69% of station-mapped location scores
- 62.9"
- annual precipitation
- 303 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Whiskeytown Rsvr: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00049621 · Whiskeytown Rsvr, CA 63°F mean · 62.9" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 63°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,626
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Ashdown
- PRCP-WET 62.9"
- SWING-MID 37°F
- COMF-TOP 76/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00049621
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Ashdown, AR (+ 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.
- Whiskeytown Rsvr (this station) 63°F
- Hot Goodsprings, NV 63°F
- Near Ashdown, AR 63°F
- Near Chisos Basin, TX 63°F
- Near Durant, OK 63°F
Climate Living Index · Whiskeytown Rsvr
Whiskeytown Rsvr: 69/100 · grade C
Whiskeytown Rsvr publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Whiskeytown Rsvr, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 76/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 303 days/year | 100/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 62.9°F · 4.6° from 67.5°F | 86/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 96 calendar days | 77/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 62.9 in · 27.9 from 35 in | 5/100 · F |
Whiskeytown Rsvr · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Whiskeytown Rsvr is a temperate Köppen climate: Csa
Coldest-month mean 46.0°F and warmest-month mean 82.6°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
- 82.6°F
- Coldest month
- 46.0°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 Whiskeytown Rsvr sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Whiskeytown Rsvr'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, Whiskeytown Rsvr sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 4% wettest
- Whiskeytown Rsvr's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 78%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Whiskeytown Rsvr is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Whiskeytown Rsvr compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Whiskeytown Rsvr's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
76 Top 31% score exceeds 69% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Whiskeytown Rsvr's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 37 complete annual observations from 1965 to 2017, WHISKEYTOWN RSVR warmed at a fitted rate of 0.24°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Whiskeytown Rsvr primary station fitted change +0.24 °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 | 54°F (12°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 10.7" | 6.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 58°F (15°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 11.6" | 4.1 | 0.0 |
| March | 63°F (17°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 9.9" | 1.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 70°F (21°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 5.0" | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| May | 79°F (26°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 3.1" | 0.0 | 5.3 |
| June | 89°F (32°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 1.3" | 0.0 | 15.3 |
| July | 99°F (37°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 83°F (28°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 27.4 |
| August | 98°F (37°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 27.6 |
| September | 92°F (33°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 76°F (25°C) | 0.5" | 0.0 | 18.6 |
| October | 78°F (25°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 2.8" | 0.0 | 3.4 |
| November | 62°F (17°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 6.3" | 1.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 54°F (12°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 11.5" | 6.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Whiskeytown Rsvr runs from a mild 38°F around December 19 to 100°F at the peak near July 24, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 19 through September 22, covering 96 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 16 to October 29.
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 38°F around December 19.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is January 22, when 45% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 27 at 2%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 92 wet dates a year.
The widest day
August 5 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 33°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Whiskeytown Rsvr.
Where Whiskeytown Rsvr Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 96 days a year the normal daily high itself reaches 90°F — a count fewer than one station in ten exceeds.
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 63 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Whiskeytown Rsvr earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
14.4 days with precipitation
11.6 days with precipitation
12.8 days with precipitation
9.5 days with precipitation
7.3 days with precipitation
3.4 days with precipitation
0.6 days with precipitation
0.9 days with precipitation
2.0 days with precipitation
4.9 days with precipitation
10.1 days with precipitation
13.9 days with precipitation
Whiskeytown Rsvr's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 54% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 3%. 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 36.6°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- February, 11.6"
- Driest month
- August, 0.1"
- Wettest three months
- February, December, January (54% 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.
When it rains in Whiskeytown Rsvr, it arrives in quantity
62.9" of precipitation falls across only about 91 wet days here, averaging 0.69 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 91 a year, 25% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.69 inches
- Most wet days
- January, about 14
- Fewest wet days
- July, about 1
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
December 13
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
February 13
50% probability date
Growing Season
303 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,752
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
2,006
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Whiskeytown Rsvr 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).
- Ashdown, AR 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Durant, OK 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Goodsprings, NV 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Hamlet, NC 63°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (62.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Buras, LA 62.8" · 0.1" off
- Liberty, TX 62.8" · 0.1" off
- Cascadia, OR 63.1" · 0.2" off
- Wewahitchka, FL 63.1" · 0.2" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Whiskeytown Rsvr's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · wet · mid swing
Water is prominent even though neither heating nor cooling wholly defines the record. Whiskeytown Rsvr averages 62.9 inches of precipitation a year. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The monthly table supplies the seasonal distribution hidden by that annual total.
July and December mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Whiskeytown Rsvr's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 36.6°F. The annual average is 63°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Whiskeytown Rsvr's normal, at 2,752 and 2,006 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.
The frost-free window extends for about 303 days. That is a long calendar measure, but it is not a forecast and does not combine heat, rainfall, soil, or local elevation into a planting recommendation.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Whiskeytown Rsvr'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 Whiskeytown Rsvr, 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 Whiskeytown Rsvr's primary station: WHISKEYTOWN RSVR (USC00049621). 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 Whiskeytown Rsvr; 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 Whiskeytown Rsvr 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.