Silver City, NM

Climate overview — based on NOAA 1991-2020 normals from FT BAYARD, NM US.

BSk Semi-arid (cold) climate 8b USDA hardiness Zone 8b

Year-round temperatures (°F)

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Climate summary

Silver City has an annual average temperature of 59.6°F with about 16.2 inches of precipitation per year. The warmest month is June (average high 90.2°F), and the coldest is December (average low 30.3°F). July is typically the wettest month (3.91 in) and April the driest (0.32 in).

Annual swing
33.2°F
warmest to coldest month
Heating need
3,048
Cooling need
1,095

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Climate change signal

All-time records →

27 of 366 (7.4%) of Silver City'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
15
1900s
22
1910s
21
1920s
15
1930s
18
1940s
15
1950s
91
1960s
7
1970s
19
1980s
32
1990s
39
2000s
41
2010s
4
2020s
27

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 55.6°F 31.6°F 43.6°F 1.07 in 6
February 59.1°F 33.6°F 46.3°F 0.91 in 6
March 66.1°F 37.5°F 51.8°F 0.48 in 5
April 72.7°F 43.0°F 57.8°F 0.32 in 2
May 80.1°F 50.2°F 65.1°F 0.57 in 3
June 90.2°F 59.5°F 74.8°F 0.84 in 5
July 88.4°F 63.7°F 76.0°F 3.91 in 15
August 86.9°F 62.8°F 74.9°F 2.93 in 13
September 83.2°F 58.1°F 70.7°F 2.10 in 7
October 74.2°F 47.0°F 60.6°F 0.99 in 5
November 63.5°F 37.4°F 50.5°F 0.85 in 3
December 55.3°F 30.3°F 42.8°F 1.22 in 6

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