What is the hottest month in Liberal?

July is the warmest month in Liberal, with an average high of 93.2°F.

What is the coldest month in Liberal?

January is the coldest month in Liberal, with an average low of 19.7°F.

What month does Liberal get the most rain?

June is typically the wettest month in Liberal, with about 3.31 inches of precipitation.

What plant hardiness zone is Liberal in?

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

Has the climate in Liberal changed recently?

11.7% of Liberal'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.

Liberal, KS

Climate overview — based on NOAA 1991-2020 normals from LIBERAL, KS US.

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

Year-round temperatures (°F)

Avg high Avg low

Climate summary

Liberal has an annual average temperature of 55.8°F with about 21.1 inches of precipitation per year and 14.4 inches of snow. The warmest month is July (average high 93.2°F), and the coldest is January (average low 19.7°F). June is typically the wettest month (3.31 in) and February the driest (0.40 in). Snow typically falls from October through April.

Annual swing

45.4°F

warmest to coldest month

Heating need

4,545

HDD/yr

Cooling need

1,218

CDD/yr

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Climate change signal

All-time records →

43 of 366 (11.7%) of Liberal'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		5
1900s		8
1910s		34
1920s		35
1930s		49
1940s		14
1950s		29
1960s		22
1970s		23
1980s		43
1990s		18
2000s		28
2010s		34
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	47.6°F	19.7°F	33.7°F	0.47 in	3.5 in	2
February	51.0°F	22.2°F	36.6°F	0.40 in	1.8 in	2
March	60.7°F	30.3°F	45.5°F	1.20 in	2.3 in	4
April	69.6°F	38.7°F	54.2°F	1.80 in	0.4 in	5
May	78.7°F	49.8°F	64.2°F	2.66 in	0.1 in	6
June	88.8°F	60.3°F	74.6°F	3.31 in	—	7
July	93.2°F	65.1°F	79.1°F	3.20 in	—	7
August	91.2°F	63.6°F	77.4°F	2.72 in	—	7
September	83.9°F	55.0°F	69.5°F	1.53 in	—	4
October	71.5°F	42.2°F	56.8°F	2.29 in	0.7 in	4
November	58.3°F	28.6°F	43.4°F	0.73 in	1.0 in	3
December	47.4°F	20.8°F	34.1°F	0.80 in	4.6 in	3