What is the hottest month in Ekalaka?

July is the warmest month in Ekalaka, with an average high of 85.6°F.

What is the coldest month in Ekalaka?

January is the coldest month in Ekalaka, with an average low of 10.8°F.

What month does Ekalaka get the most rain?

May is typically the wettest month in Ekalaka, with about 3.21 inches of precipitation.

What plant hardiness zone is Ekalaka in?

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

Has the climate in Ekalaka changed recently?

10.9% of Ekalaka'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.

Ekalaka, MT

Climate overview — based on NOAA 1991-2020 normals from EKALAKA, MT US.

BSk Semi-arid (cold) climate 6b USDA hardiness Zone 6b

Year-round temperatures (°F)

Avg high Avg low

Climate summary

Ekalaka has an annual average temperature of 45.3°F with about 18.1 inches of precipitation per year and 48.4 inches of snow. The warmest month is July (average high 85.6°F), and the coldest is January (average low 10.8°F). May is typically the wettest month (3.21 in) and December the driest (0.51 in). Snow typically falls from October through May.

Annual swing

49.6°F

warmest to coldest month

Heating need

7,428

HDD/yr

Cooling need

336

CDD/yr

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Climate change signal

All-time records →

40 of 366 (10.9%) of Ekalaka'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		0
1900s		29
1910s		45
1920s		37
1930s		34
1940s		23
1950s		26
1960s		21
1970s		16
1980s		31
1990s		36
2000s		18
2010s		26
2020s		24

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	32.5°F	10.8°F	21.6°F	0.58 in	6.5 in	7
February	35.0°F	13.1°F	24.0°F	0.66 in	9.0 in	7
March	46.4°F	21.8°F	34.1°F	0.95 in	8.8 in	7
April	56.8°F	30.7°F	43.7°F	1.86 in	5.3 in	8
May	66.8°F	40.4°F	53.6°F	3.21 in	2.6 in	11
June	76.5°F	49.9°F	63.2°F	2.95 in	—	11
July	85.6°F	56.8°F	71.2°F	2.10 in	—	8
August	84.7°F	55.3°F	70.0°F	1.35 in	—	7
September	74.5°F	45.6°F	60.0°F	1.60 in	0.1 in	7
October	58.4°F	33.2°F	45.8°F	1.58 in	2.4 in	8
November	44.0°F	21.5°F	32.8°F	0.76 in	6.2 in	7
December	34.3°F	12.9°F	23.6°F	0.51 in	7.5 in	7