Yellow Jacket, CO 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 Yellow Jacket's primary NOAA station, YELLOW JACKET 2W - 2 stations mapped to the area.
The climate verdict for Yellow Jacket
Dryness leads the climate profile for Yellow Jacket, Colorado, with 15.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 50°F. At 52/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 24% of scores.
- 50°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 52/100
- comfort score, above 24% of station-mapped location scores
- 15.0"
- yearly precipitation total
- 145 days
- frost-free growing season
Yellow Jacket: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00059275 · Yellow Jacket, CO 50°F mean · 15.0" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-MULTI · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 50°F
- RANK-COOL #2,607
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Indiana
- PRCP-DRY 15.0"
- SWING-MID 44°F
- COMF-LOW 52/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,159 HDD
- STN-MULTI USC00059275
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Indiana, PA (+ 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 CO station list.
- Yellow Jacket (this station) 50°F
- Hot Donegal, PA 50°F
- Near Indiana, PA 50°F
- Near Oakley, ID 50°F
- Cold Orovada, NV 49°F
Climate Living Index · Yellow Jacket
Yellow Jacket: 27/100 · grade F
Yellow Jacket publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Yellow Jacket, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 52/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 49.5°F · 18.0° from 67.5°F | 38/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 15.0 in · 20.0 from 35 in | 28/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 145 days/year | 22/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 192 calendar days | 18/100 · F |
Yellow Jacket · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Yellow Jacket is a continental Köppen climate: Dsa
Coldest-month mean 28.4°F and warmest-month mean 72.1°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, hot summer climates (Dsa). Class Dsa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 72.1°F
- Coldest month
- 28.4°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 Yellow Jacket sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Yellow Jacket's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 38th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 83%
- Yellow Jacket's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 52nd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Yellow Jacket compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Yellow Jacket's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
52 24th percentile score exceeds 24% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Yellow Jacket's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 39 complete annual observations from 1963 to 2024, YELLOW JACKET 2W warmed at a fitted rate of 0.35°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Yellow Jacket primary station fitted change +0.35 °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 | 41°F (5°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 1.2" | 30.4 | 0.0 |
| February | 45°F (7°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 1.4" | 26.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 54°F (12°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 1.1" | 25.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 63°F (17°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 0.9" | 16.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 72°F (22°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 1.2" | 6.4 | 0.2 |
| June | 85°F (29°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.4" | 0.6 | 6.8 |
| July | 90°F (32°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 1.8" | 0.0 | 14.7 |
| August | 86°F (30°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 1.8" | 0.0 | 8.4 |
| September | 79°F (26°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 1.4" | 1.3 | 2.3 |
| October | 66°F (19°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 1.5" | 11.6 | 0.0 |
| November | 53°F (11°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 1.1" | 24.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 41°F (5°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 29°F (-1°C) | 1.3" | 30.1 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Yellow Jacket works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 91°F by July 9 and hold at or above 90°F on 19 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 173 dates, bottoming at 16°F around January 4.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 4 through July 22, covering 19 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 12 to October 7.
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 16, then returns to freezing around October 27, covering 173 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 August 20, when 27% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is June 19 at 12%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 70 wet dates a year.
The widest day
June 24 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 Yellow Jacket.
Where Yellow Jacket 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.
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 15 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Yellow Jacket earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
6.2 days with precipitation
6.8 days with precipitation
6.6 days with precipitation
5.1 days with precipitation
6.2 days with precipitation
3.3 days with precipitation
6.6 days with precipitation
8.2 days with precipitation
6.2 days with precipitation
5.4 days with precipitation
4.3 days with precipitation
4.8 days with precipitation
Yellow Jacket spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 26% of the annual total and December through February 26%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Yellow Jacket has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 43.7°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: August averages 1.8" and June 0.4". The three wettest months together take 34% 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.
How Yellow Jacket's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 70 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 15.0" 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 9
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 17
50% probability date
Growing Season
145 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,159
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
521
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CO closest to Yellow Jacket 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 (50°F here).
- Ankeny, IA 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Bartlett, NE 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Carleton, MI 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Columbia City, IN 50°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (15.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Sheffield, TX 15.0" · 0.0" off
- Bickleton, WA 15.0" · 0.0" off
- Fillmore, UT 15.0" · 0.0" off
- Pilot Rock, OR 15.0" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Yellow Jacket's climate pattern fits together
heating led · dry · mid swing
Yellow Jacket's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,159 annual heating degree days against 521 for cooling. Its 43.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 145 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 January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Yellow Jacket's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 43.7°F. The annual average is 50°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Yellow Jacket's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 15.0 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Yellow Jacket's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Yellow Jacket, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead 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 Yellow Jacket's primary station: YELLOW JACKET 2W (USC00059275). 2 NOAA stations are mapped to the Yellow Jacket area; the primary station's record is used for consistency. 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 Yellow Jacket; 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 Yellow Jacket 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.