Wickenburg, AZ 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 Wickenburg's primary NOAA station, WICKENBURG.
The climate verdict for Wickenburg
Dryness leads the climate profile for Wickenburg, Arizona, with 10.9 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 67°F. It scores 87/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 87% of them.
- 67°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 87/100
- comfort score, above 87% of station-mapped location scores
- 10.9"
- yearly precipitation total
- 258 days
- frost-free growing season
Wickenburg: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00029287 · Wickenburg, AZ 67°F mean · 10.9" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-WARM · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 67°F
- RANK-WARM #6,312
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Austin Great Hi…
- PRCP-ARID 10.9"
- SWING-MID 40°F
- COMF-TOP 87/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00029287
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Austin Great Hills, 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.
- Wickenburg (this station) 67°F
- Hot Charleston City, SC 67°F
- Near Austin Great Hi…, TX 67°F
- Near Bainbridge Intl…, GA 67°F
- Near Beaufort Mcas, SC 67°F
Climate Living Index · Wickenburg
Wickenburg: 67/100 · grade C
Wickenburg publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Wickenburg, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 87/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 67.2°F · 0.3° from 67.5°F | 97/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 258 days/year | 91/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.1 inches/year | 89/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 144 calendar days | 51/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 10.9 in · 24.1 from 35 in | 15/100 · F |
Wickenburg · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Wickenburg's normals sit in a dry climate class: BSh
Precipitation is low relative to temperature but above true desert thresholds: hot semi-arid steppe (BSh). Class BSh is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically hot semi-arid steppe.
- Köppen code
- BSh
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 88.3°F
- Coldest month
- 48.6°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 Wickenburg sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Wickenburg's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 8% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Wickenburg sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 92%
- Wickenburg's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 34th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Wickenburg compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Wickenburg's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
87 Top 13% score exceeds 87% 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 | 65°F (19°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 1.2" | 0.0" | 13.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 68°F (20°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.6" | 0.0" | 7.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 75°F (24°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 2.4 | 1.4 |
| April | 82°F (28°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 0.3" | 0.0" | 0.8 | 7.1 |
| May | 91°F (33°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 0.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 21.7 |
| June | 101°F (38°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 0.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 29.2 |
| July | 104°F (40°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 88°F (31°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 30.9 |
| August | 102°F (39°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 87°F (31°C) | 2.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 30.6 |
| September | 96°F (36°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 27.5 |
| October | 86°F (30°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.5" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 13.3 |
| November | 74°F (23°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 4.8 | 0.7 |
| December | 64°F (18°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 1.1" | 0.1" | 16.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Wickenburg runs from a mild 32°F around December 18 to 104°F at the peak near July 13, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from May 14 through October 4, covering 144 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs February 28 to November 23.
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 32°F around December 18.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is August 20, when 15% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is May 30 at 1%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 31 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 7 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 41°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Wickenburg.
Where Wickenburg Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 144 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 11 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Wickenburg 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
3.6 days with precipitation
3.6 days with precipitation
3.8 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
0.5 days with precipitation
0.5 days with precipitation
3.2 days with precipitation
4.5 days with precipitation
2.9 days with precipitation
1.6 days with precipitation
2.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
3.2 days with precipitation
Wickenburg's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 36% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 29%. 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 39.7°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- August, 2.0"
- Driest month
- June, 0.1"
- Wettest three months
- August, February, January (44% 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 Wickenburg, it arrives in quantity
10.9" of precipitation falls across only about 31 wet days here, averaging 0.35 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 31 a year, 8% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.35 inches
- Most wet days
- August, about 5
- Fewest wet days
- May, 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.
Snow reaches Wickenburg, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 0.1 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.
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 20
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 7
50% probability date
Growing Season
258 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
1,985
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
2,807
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AZ closest to Wickenburg 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 (67°F here).
- Lake City, FL 67°F · 0.0°F off
- Monticello, MS 67°F · 0.0°F off
- Monticello, FL 67°F · 0.0°F off
- Bogalusa, LA 67°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (10.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Dell City, TX 10.9" · 0.0" off
- Hartline, WA 10.9" · 0.0" off
- Rangely, CO 10.9" · 0.0" off
- Porterville, CA 11.0" · 0.0" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Wickenburg's limited precipitation lands
mixed demand · dry · mid swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 10.9 inches annually, within PlainClimate's dry band. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. 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 Wickenburg's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 39.7°F. The annual average is 67°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Wickenburg's normal, at 1,985 and 2,807 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.
Wickenburg has a long frost-free window of roughly 258 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
Wickenburg wettest normal
August
August concentrates the scarce annual total (10.9 inches).
Wickenburg 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 Wickenburg's primary station: WICKENBURG (USC00029287). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as an incorporated place (GEOID 0482740). Match rule for Wickenburg: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Wickenburg 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.