Yellowpine, ID Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Yellowpine's primary NOAA station, YELLOWPINE.
The climate verdict for Yellowpine
Yellowpine, Idaho has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 44°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.
- 44°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 52/100
- comfort score, above 24% of station-mapped location scores
- 24.0"
- precipitation, annual total
- 91 days
- frost-free growing season
Yellowpine: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00109950 · Yellowpine, ID 44°F mean · 24.0" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 44°F
- RANK-COOL #1,029
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hill City
- PRCP-DRY 24.0"
- SWING-MID 42°F
- COMF-LOW 52/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,878 HDD
- STN-1 USC00109950
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Hill City, SD (+ 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 (this station) 44°F
- Cold Idaho City, ID 44°F
- Hot Fortine, MT 44°F
- Near Hill City, SD 44°F
- Near Anaconda, MT 44°F
Climate Living Index · Yellowpine
Yellowpine: 21/100 · grade F
Yellowpine publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Yellowpine, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 52/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 24.0 in · 11.0 from 35 in | 61/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 43.9°F · 23.6° from 67.5°F | 16/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 209 calendar days | 9/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 91 days/year | 0/100 · F |
Yellowpine · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Yellowpine is a continental Köppen climate: Dsb
Coldest-month mean 24.1°F and warmest-month mean 65.8°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, warm summer climates (Dsb). Class Dsb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 65.8°F
- Coldest month
- 24.1°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 sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Yellowpine's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 85%
- Among 6,861 stations, Yellowpine sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 33rd percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 43rd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Yellowpine compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Yellowpine'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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 36°F (2°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 2.7" | 30.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 40°F (5°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 2.0" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 46°F (8°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 2.7" | 28.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 56°F (13°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 2.1" | 22.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 64°F (18°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 1.8" | 9.1 | 0.1 |
| June | 74°F (23°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 2.1" | 2.5 | 2.0 |
| July | 87°F (30°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.9" | 0.3 | 13.7 |
| August | 87°F (30°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 0.7" | 0.7 | 12.2 |
| September | 76°F (25°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 1.3" | 5.6 | 1.9 |
| October | 59°F (15°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 2.0" | 20.5 | 0.2 |
| November | 43°F (6°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 2.7" | 27.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 34°F (1°C) | 15°F (-10°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 3.0" | 30.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 89°F around July 26, short of 90°F on every date, while 209 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 12°F near January 7.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 4, then returns to freezing around October 9, covering 209 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 March 5, when 47% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is July 27 at 16%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 131 wet dates a year.
The widest day
July 22 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 43°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Yellowpine.
Where Yellowpine Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 209 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Day-to-night contrast is extreme by national standards — the widest normal daily swing reaches about 43°F, sharper than nine in ten ranked stations see.
Yellowpine earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
12.1 days with precipitation
12.6 days with precipitation
14.9 days with precipitation
12.3 days with precipitation
11.4 days with precipitation
11.4 days with precipitation
4.6 days with precipitation
5.5 days with precipitation
7.3 days with precipitation
11.6 days with precipitation
12.0 days with precipitation
14.7 days with precipitation
Yellowpine spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 16% of the annual total and December through February 32%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Yellowpine has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 41.7°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: December averages 3.0" and August 0.7". The three wettest months together take 35% 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 in small, frequent amounts
Yellowpine records about 130 days with measurable precipitation a year and 24.0" in total, which works out to roughly 0.18 inches on an average wet day. Precipitation on 36% 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: March, about 15 of them.
- Fewest: July, about 5.
- Average depth per wet day: 0.18 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 11
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 12
50% probability date
Growing Season
91 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,878
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
198
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside ID closest to Yellowpine 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 (44°F here).
- Bethel, ME 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Carter, MT 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Colton, NY 44°F · 0.0°F off
- Dayton, WY 44°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (24.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Chamberlain, SD 24.1" · 0.0" off
- Alexandria, MN 24.1" · 0.1" off
- McLeod, ND 24.0" · 0.1" off
- Andover, SD 24.0" · 0.1" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Yellowpine's climate pattern fits together
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Yellowpine's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 7,878 annual heating degree days against 198 for cooling. Its 41.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 91 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 Yellowpine's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 41.7°F. The annual average is 44°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Yellowpine's 24.0 inches of annual precipitation falls in PlainClimate's middle band, so “wet” or “dry” is not the leading description. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. Temperature balance and the calendar distribution carry more information than the annual moisture label alone.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Yellowpine'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 Yellowpine, 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 Yellowpine's primary station: YELLOWPINE (USC00109950). 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; 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 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.