What is the hottest month in Horace?

July is the warmest month in Horace, with an average high of 91.4°F.

What is the coldest month in Horace?

January is the coldest month in Horace, with an average low of 16.1°F.

What month does Horace get the most rain?

July is typically the wettest month in Horace, with about 3.14 inches of precipitation.

What plant hardiness zone is Horace in?

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

Has the climate in Horace changed recently?

12% of Horace'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.

Horace, KS

Climate overview — based on NOAA 1991-2020 normals from TRIBUNE 1W, KS US.

BSk Semi-arid (cold) climate 7a USDA hardiness Zone 7a

Year-round temperatures (°F)

Avg high Avg low

Climate summary

Horace has an annual average temperature of 52.2°F with about 18.4 inches of precipitation per year and 21.7 inches of snow. The warmest month is July (average high 91.4°F), and the coldest is January (average low 16.1°F). July is typically the wettest month (3.14 in) and January the driest (0.43 in). Snow typically falls from October through May.

Annual swing

46.3°F

warmest to coldest month

Heating need

5,439

HDD/yr

Cooling need

840

CDD/yr

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Climate change signal

All-time records →

44 of 366 (12%) of Horace'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		12
1900s		2
1910s		12
1920s		20
1930s		41
1940s		18
1950s		34
1960s		29
1970s		20
1980s		27
1990s		35
2000s		44
2010s		44
2020s		28

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	44.2°F	16.1°F	30.2°F	0.43 in	4.2 in	3
February	47.2°F	18.7°F	33.0°F	0.54 in	4.2 in	3
March	56.9°F	26.5°F	41.7°F	0.99 in	3.6 in	5
April	64.9°F	34.6°F	49.8°F	1.66 in	2.1 in	6
May	74.6°F	46.0°F	60.3°F	2.23 in	0.3 in	8
June	86.2°F	56.6°F	71.4°F	2.77 in	—	8
July	91.4°F	61.7°F	76.5°F	3.14 in	—	8
August	88.2°F	59.8°F	74.0°F	2.87 in	—	8
September	81.4°F	50.8°F	66.1°F	1.13 in	0.1 in	5
October	68.3°F	36.7°F	52.5°F	1.59 in	1.3 in	5
November	54.7°F	25.6°F	40.2°F	0.53 in	2.1 in	3
December	44.8°F	17.2°F	31.0°F	0.56 in	3.8 in	3