Yellowpine Bar, ID 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 Yellowpine Bar's primary NOAA station, YELLOWPINE BAR.
The climate verdict for Yellowpine Bar
Yellowpine Bar, Idaho has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 50°F. Its climate comfort score of 59/100 (moderate) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 37% of station-mapped location scores.
- 50°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 59/100
- comfort score, above 37% of station-mapped location scores
- 21.9"
- annual precipitation · 45" snow
- 161 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Yellowpine Bar: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00109963 · Yellowpine Bar, ID 50°F mean · 21.9" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 50°F
- RANK-COOL #2,607
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Richland
- PRCP-DRY 21.9"
- SWING-MID 44°F
- COMF-MID 59/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,223 HDD
- STN-1 USC00109963
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Richland, OR (+ 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 ID station list.
- Yellowpine Bar (this station) 50°F
- Hot Ford City 4 S D…, PA 50°F
- Near Richland, OR 50°F
- Near Norton W, MA 50°F
- Cold Yorktown Hts, NY 49°F
Climate Living Index · Yellowpine Bar
Yellowpine Bar: 32/100 · grade F
Yellowpine Bar publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Yellowpine Bar, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 59/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 21.9 in · 13.1 from 35 in | 54/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 49.5°F · 18.0° from 67.5°F | 38/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 161 days/year | 34/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 44.6 inches/year | 24/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 199 calendar days | 14/100 · F |
Yellowpine Bar · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Yellowpine Bar is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 28.7°F and warmest-month mean 72.5°F place this station in continental, no dry season, hot summer climates (Dfa). Class Dfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 72.5°F
- Coldest month
- 28.7°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 Yellowpine Bar sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Yellowpine Bar'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
- 31st percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 52nd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Yellowpine Bar compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Yellowpine Bar's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
59 37th percentile score exceeds 37% 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 37°F (3°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 1.9" | 15.4" | 30.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 44°F (7°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 1.4" | 7.0" | 27.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 54°F (12°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 2.0" | 1.9" | 23.8 | 0.0 |
| April | 63°F (17°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 2.1" | 0.1" | 10.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 73°F (23°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 2.3" | 0.0" | 2.6 | 2.0 |
| June | 80°F (27°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 2.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 5.9 |
| July | 92°F (33°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 1.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 20.4 |
| August | 91°F (33°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 0.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 19.3 |
| September | 81°F (27°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 1.4" | 0.0" | 1.0 | 6.0 |
| October | 62°F (17°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 1.9" | 0.0" | 12.0 | 0.0 |
| November | 45°F (7°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 2.4" | 4.6" | 22.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 36°F (2°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 2.1" | 15.6" | 29.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Yellowpine Bar works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 95°F by July 27 and hold at or above 90°F on 44 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 155 dates, bottoming at 20°F around January 1.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 9 through August 21, covering 44 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs May 5 to October 4.
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 March 31, then returns to freezing around October 29, covering 155 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 November 22, when 48% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is August 1 at 20%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 136 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 25 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 Yellowpine Bar.
Where Yellowpine Bar Stands Nationally
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 41°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Yellowpine Bar earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 15.4"
13.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.0"
10.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.9"
12.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
14.0 days with precipitation
13.8 days with precipitation
13.0 days with precipitation
6.9 days with precipitation
6.3 days with precipitation
7.1 days with precipitation
10.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.6"
14.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 15.6"
13.6 days with precipitation
Yellowpine Bar spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 20% of the annual total and December through February 25%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Yellowpine Bar has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 43.8°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: June averages 2.6" and August 0.8". The three wettest months together take 33% 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.
Rain reaches Yellowpine Bar in small, frequent amounts
Yellowpine Bar records about 136 days with measurable precipitation a year and 21.9" in total, which works out to roughly 0.16 inches on an average wet day. Precipitation on 37% of all days, arriving that lightly, is the damp many-grey-days pattern rather than the storm-driven one.
Places in this band read as wetter than their annual totals suggest, because what people notice is the number of overcast days, not the depth in the gauge.
- Most wet days: November, about 14 of them.
- Fewest: August, about 6.
- Average depth per wet day: 0.16 inches.
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.
Winter brings real snow to Yellowpine Bar
Yellowpine Bar averages 44.6 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 25 days that record measurable snow. That is depth accumulating on the ground, which is why it can exceed the annual precipitation figure: precipitation counts the liquid the snow melts down to, and fresh snow is mostly air.
- Annual snowfall: 44.6 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 25 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 20% of the year's precipitation.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. The ten-to-one ratio is a convention, not a measurement: real ratios vary with temperature, so treat the share as an order of magnitude rather than an exact split.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 10
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 2
50% probability date
Growing Season
161 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,223
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
609
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside ID closest to Yellowpine Bar 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 (21.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Willows, CA 21.9" · 0.0" off
- Edmore, ND 21.9" · 0.0" off
- Eldorado, TX 21.9" · 0.0" off
- Aberdeen, SD 21.8" · 0.1" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Yellowpine Bar
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Yellowpine Bar's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,223 annual heating degree days against 609 for cooling. Its 43.8°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Yellowpine Bar's frost-free season lasts about 161 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
-
1. Yellowpine Bar coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 29°F (-2°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
-
2. Yellowpine Bar typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
-
3. Yellowpine Bar snow peak
December
Yellowpine Bar averages 44.6 inches of snow a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals.
Questions about Yellowpine Bar's climate
How much snow does Yellowpine Bar get? ▼
How many days above 90°F does Yellowpine Bar get? ▼
How much energy does heating and cooling require in Yellowpine Bar? ▼
Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Yellowpine Bar's primary station: YELLOWPINE BAR (USC00109963). 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 Yellowpine Bar; 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 Yellowpine Bar 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.