Yucca Mesa, CA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Yucca Mesa's primary NOAA station, YUCCA MESA.
The climate verdict for Yucca Mesa
Dryness leads the climate profile for Yucca Mesa, California, with 5.8 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 65°F. Its climate comfort score of 73/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 66% of station-mapped location scores.
- 65°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 73/100
- comfort score, above 66% of station-mapped location scores
- 5.8"
- precipitation, annual total
- 297 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Yucca Mesa: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00049884 · Yucca Mesa, CA 65°F mean · 5.8" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-ARID · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 65°F
- RANK-UPPER #6,038
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Andalusia
- PRCP-ARID 5.8"
- SWING-MID 35°F
- COMF-MID 73/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00049884
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Andalusia, AL (+ 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.
- Yucca Mesa (this station) 65°F
- Hot Farmerville, LA 65°F
- Near Andalusia, AL 65°F
- Near Andrews, TX 65°F
- Near Dublin, GA 65°F
Climate Living Index · Yucca Mesa
Yucca Mesa: 70/100 · grade B
Yucca Mesa publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Yucca Mesa, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 73/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 297 days/year | 100/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 64.9°F · 2.6° from 67.5°F | 92/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 98 calendar days | 76/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 5.8 in · 29.2 from 35 in | 3/100 · F |
Yucca Mesa · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Yucca Mesa's normals sit in a dry climate class: BWh
Annual precipitation falls well below the aridity threshold for this temperature regime, so the normals classify as hot desert (BWh). Class BWh is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: dry (arid or semi-arid), specifically hot desert.
- Köppen code
- BWh
- Group
- Dry (arid or semi-arid)
- Warmest month
- 83.4°F
- Coldest month
- 48.0°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 Yucca Mesa sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Yucca Mesa's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 12% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Yucca Mesa sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 99%
- Yucca Mesa's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 81%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Yucca Mesa is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Yucca Mesa compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Yucca Mesa's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
73 Top 34% score exceeds 66% 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
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 58°F (15°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 1.6" | 3.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 61°F (16°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.2" | 4.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 68°F (20°C) | 44°F (6°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 0.6" | 1.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 73°F (23°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 0.2" | 0.1 | 1.0 |
| May | 82°F (28°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.1" | 0.0 | 6.9 |
| June | 92°F (33°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 78°F (25°C) | 0.0" | 0.0 | 22.3 |
| July | 96°F (36°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 83°F (29°C) | 0.3" | 0.0 | 28.5 |
| August | 96°F (36°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 83°F (28°C) | 0.3" | 0.0 | 28.8 |
| September | 89°F (32°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 0.3" | 0.0 | 18.8 |
| October | 80°F (27°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 0.3" | 0.1 | 3.6 |
| November | 67°F (19°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 0.2" | 1.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 58°F (15°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 0.7" | 5.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Yucca Mesa runs from a mild 37°F around December 13 to 97°F at the peak near July 25, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 8 through September 13, covering 98 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 29 to November 8.
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 37°F around December 13.
The widest day
June 8 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 30°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Yucca Mesa.
Where Yucca Mesa Stands Nationally
Summers here run among the most heat-heavy normals calendars in the country: on about 98 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 6 inches in a normal year lands this among the driest tenth of ranked stations.
Yucca Mesa earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Yucca Mesa's wet season runs through the cold months
December, January and February carry 59% of the year's precipitation here, while June through August contribute 10%. 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 35.4°F seasonal spread.
- Wettest month
- January, 1.6"
- Driest month
- June, 0.0"
- Wettest three months
- January, February, December (59% 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
December 10
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
February 16
50% probability date
Growing Season
297 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,232
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
2,225
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
December
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside CA closest to Yucca Mesa 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 (65°F here).
- Andalusia, AL 65°F · 0.0°F off
- Andrews, TX 65°F · 0.0°F off
- Dublin, GA 65°F · 0.0°F off
- Farmerville, LA 65°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (5.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Topaz Lake, NV 5.9" · 0.1" off
- Bunkerville, NV 5.9" · 0.1" off
- Nuiqsut, AK 5.7" · 0.2" off
- Bouse, AZ 5.7" · 0.2" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Yucca Mesa's limited precipitation lands
mixed demand · dry · mid swing
Local precipitation is sparse in this otherwise mixed profile. The station reports 5.8 inches annually, within PlainClimate's dry band. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. 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 Yucca Mesa's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 35.4°F. The annual average is 65°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Yucca Mesa's normal, at 2,232 and 2,225 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.
Yucca Mesa has a long frost-free window of roughly 297 days, but the dry annual profile is a separate constraint. Growing-season length says when freezes are unlikely, not whether rainfall is sufficient.
Yucca Mesa wettest normal
January
January concentrates the scarce annual total (5.8 inches).
Yucca Mesa 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 Yucca Mesa's primary station: YUCCA MESA (USC00049884). 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 Yucca Mesa; 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 Yucca Mesa 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.