What is the hottest month in Protection?

July is the warmest month in Protection, with an average high of 94.6°F.

What is the coldest month in Protection?

January is the coldest month in Protection, with an average low of 23.9°F.

What month does Protection get the most rain?

June is typically the wettest month in Protection, with about 3.91 inches of precipitation.

What plant hardiness zone is Protection in?

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

Has the climate in Protection changed recently?

11.5% of Protection'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.

Protection, KS

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

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

Year-round temperatures (°F)

Avg high Avg low

Climate summary

Protection has an annual average temperature of 59.3°F with about 25.3 inches of precipitation per year and 17.1 inches of snow. The warmest month is July (average high 94.6°F), and the coldest is January (average low 23.9°F). June is typically the wettest month (3.91 in) and January the driest (0.76 in). Snow typically falls from November through April.

Annual swing

45.4°F

warmest to coldest month

Heating need

3,711

HDD/yr

Cooling need

1,656

CDD/yr

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Climate change signal

All-time records →

42 of 366 (11.5%) of Protection'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		21
1900s		6
1910s		36
1920s		29
1930s		60
1940s		19
1950s		42
1960s		23
1970s		12
1980s		21
1990s		20
2000s		26
2010s		31
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	49.3°F	23.9°F	36.6°F	0.76 in	3.5 in	3
February	53.7°F	26.7°F	40.2°F	0.87 in	4.0 in	3
March	63.5°F	35.7°F	49.6°F	1.56 in	3.2 in	5
April	72.5°F	44.7°F	58.6°F	2.21 in	0.5 in	5
May	80.8°F	55.3°F	68.0°F	3.44 in	—	7
June	89.6°F	64.9°F	77.2°F	3.91 in	—	7
July	94.6°F	69.5°F	82.0°F	3.36 in	—	7
August	92.6°F	68.0°F	80.3°F	3.32 in	—	7
September	85.6°F	59.9°F	72.7°F	1.71 in	—	5
October	74.2°F	47.4°F	60.8°F	2.08 in	0.1 in	5
November	60.9°F	34.9°F	47.9°F	0.95 in	1.2 in	3
December	49.5°F	25.8°F	37.6°F	1.12 in	4.6 in	3