What is the hottest month in Great Bend?

July is the warmest month in Great Bend, with an average high of 91.3°F.

What is the coldest month in Great Bend?

January is the coldest month in Great Bend, with an average low of 18.2°F.

What month does Great Bend get the most rain?

May is typically the wettest month in Great Bend, with about 4.83 inches of precipitation.

What plant hardiness zone is Great Bend in?

Great Bend is approximately in USDA plant hardiness Zone 7a, based on the average annual extreme minimum temperature.

Has the climate in Great Bend changed recently?

13.7% of Great Bend'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.

Great Bend, KS

Climate overview — based on NOAA 1991-2020 normals from GREAT BEND 3W, KS US.

Dfa Hot-summer humid continental climate 7a USDA hardiness Zone 7a

Year-round temperatures (°F)

Avg high Avg low

Climate summary

Great Bend has an annual average temperature of 54.3°F with about 27.3 inches of precipitation per year and 11.5 inches of snow. The warmest month is July (average high 91.3°F), and the coldest is January (average low 18.2°F). May is typically the wettest month (4.83 in) and January the driest (0.71 in). Snow typically falls from November through April.

Pleasant months

1 / 12

avg high 65–80°F, low ≥ 50°F

Annual swing

48°F

warmest to coldest month

Heating need

4,950

HDD/yr

Cooling need

1,098

CDD/yr

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Climate change signal

All-time records →

50 of 366 (13.7%) of Great Bend'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.

1900s		0
1910s		0
1920s		0
1930s		0
1940s		1
1950s		76
1960s		44
1970s		40
1980s		75
1990s		31
2000s		28
2010s		39
2020s		32

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	42.5°F	18.2°F	30.3°F	0.71 in	2.2 in	3
February	47.0°F	21.0°F	34.0°F	0.89 in	2.6 in	4
March	57.7°F	30.0°F	43.9°F	1.56 in	2.3 in	6
April	67.6°F	39.3°F	53.5°F	2.15 in	0.3 in	7
May	76.4°F	50.7°F	63.5°F	4.83 in	—	9
June	86.7°F	60.9°F	73.8°F	3.66 in	—	8
July	91.3°F	65.2°F	78.3°F	3.86 in	—	9
August	89.0°F	63.4°F	76.2°F	3.69 in	—	8
September	81.7°F	54.9°F	68.3°F	1.98 in	—	6
October	69.4°F	41.9°F	55.7°F	1.96 in	0.1 in	6
November	55.1°F	29.3°F	42.2°F	1.00 in	1.7 in	4
December	43.5°F	20.3°F	31.9°F	1.01 in	2.3 in	4