What is the hottest month in Broken Bow?

July is the warmest month in Broken Bow, with an average high of 86.1°F.

What is the coldest month in Broken Bow?

January is the coldest month in Broken Bow, with an average low of 11.5°F.

What month does Broken Bow get the most rain?

May is typically the wettest month in Broken Bow, with about 4.03 inches of precipitation.

What plant hardiness zone is Broken Bow in?

Broken Bow is approximately in USDA plant hardiness Zone 6b, based on the average annual extreme minimum temperature.

Has the climate in Broken Bow changed recently?

8.5% of Broken Bow's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (since 2015), compared to roughly 5% if records were evenly distributed over time.

Broken Bow, NE

Climate overview — based on NOAA 1991-2020 normals from BROKEN BOW 2 W, NE US.

Dwa Monsoon continental (hot summer) climate 6b USDA hardiness Zone 6b

Year-round temperatures (°F)

Avg high Avg low

Climate summary

Broken Bow has an annual average temperature of 48°F with about 23 inches of precipitation per year and 29.5 inches of snow. The warmest month is July (average high 86.1°F), and the coldest is January (average low 11.5°F). May is typically the wettest month (4.03 in) and January the driest (0.32 in). Snow typically falls from October through April.

Annual swing

48.9°F

warmest to coldest month

Heating need

6,621

HDD/yr

Cooling need

507

CDD/yr

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Climate change signal

All-time records →

31 of 366 (8.5%) of Broken Bow's all-time daily heat records have been set since 2015. If records were spread evenly across the station's history, only about 5% would fall in any given decade.

1890s		19
1900s		16
1910s		30
1920s		28
1930s		90
1940s		23
1950s		30
1960s		22
1970s		14
1980s		21
1990s		19
2000s		14
2010s		17
2020s		23

Bars: number of all-time daily heat records still standing that were set in each decade.

Monthly averages

Month	Avg High	Avg Low	Avg Temp	Precipitation	Snow	Rainy days
January	36.9°F	11.5°F	24.2°F	0.32 in	4.4 in	4
February	40.0°F	14.2°F	27.1°F	0.47 in	7.0 in	5
March	51.0°F	22.8°F	36.9°F	1.29 in	3.8 in	7
April	60.1°F	32.0°F	46.1°F	2.52 in	2.8 in	10
May	69.9°F	43.6°F	56.7°F	4.03 in	0.1 in	11
June	80.5°F	55.1°F	67.8°F	3.73 in	—	11
July	86.1°F	60.1°F	73.1°F	3.12 in	—	9
August	84.4°F	57.7°F	71.0°F	2.48 in	—	7
September	77.1°F	47.7°F	62.4°F	2.03 in	—	6
October	63.9°F	33.9°F	48.9°F	1.83 in	2.0 in	7
November	50.1°F	21.6°F	35.8°F	0.72 in	3.7 in	5
December	39.0°F	13.4°F	26.2°F	0.50 in	5.7 in	4