What is the hottest month in Las Animas?

July is the warmest month in Las Animas, with an average high of 94.5°F.

What is the coldest month in Las Animas?

January is the coldest month in Las Animas, with an average low of 15.5°F.

What month does Las Animas get the most rain?

July is typically the wettest month in Las Animas, with about 2.63 inches of precipitation.

What plant hardiness zone is Las Animas in?

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

Has the climate in Las Animas changed recently?

11.5% of Las Animas'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.

Las Animas, CO

Climate overview — based on NOAA 1991-2020 normals from LAS ANIMAS, CO US.

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

Year-round temperatures (°F)

Avg high Avg low

Climate summary

Las Animas has an annual average temperature of 54.5°F with about 13.6 inches of precipitation per year and 16.2 inches of snow. The warmest month is July (average high 94.5°F), and the coldest is January (average low 15.5°F). July is typically the wettest month (2.63 in) and February the driest (0.32 in). Snow typically falls from October through April.

Annual swing

47.1°F

warmest to coldest month

Heating need

4,911

HDD/yr

Cooling need

1,116

CDD/yr

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Climate change signal

All-time records →

42 of 366 (11.5%) of Las Animas'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		6
1900s		16
1910s		16
1920s		14
1930s		93
1940s		25
1950s		16
1960s		5
1970s		13
1980s		34
1990s		44
2000s		28
2010s		36
2020s		20

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	47.8°F	15.5°F	31.6°F	0.38 in	3.9 in	3
February	51.6°F	19.3°F	35.5°F	0.32 in	2.3 in	3
March	61.8°F	28.1°F	45.0°F	0.78 in	3.3 in	5
April	69.6°F	36.8°F	53.2°F	1.36 in	0.4 in	5
May	79.2°F	47.5°F	63.3°F	1.69 in	—	7
June	90.0°F	57.8°F	73.9°F	1.81 in	—	7
July	94.5°F	63.0°F	78.7°F	2.63 in	—	7
August	91.7°F	61.1°F	76.4°F	1.82 in	—	7
September	84.6°F	51.9°F	68.2°F	0.93 in	—	4
October	71.3°F	37.4°F	54.3°F	1.10 in	1.5 in	4
November	58.2°F	24.9°F	41.6°F	0.40 in	1.9 in	3
December	47.6°F	16.0°F	31.8°F	0.36 in	2.9 in	3