What is the hottest month in WaKeeney?

July is the warmest month in WaKeeney, with an average high of 92.9°F.

What is the coldest month in WaKeeney?

January is the coldest month in WaKeeney, with an average low of 17.4°F.

What month does WaKeeney get the most rain?

May is typically the wettest month in WaKeeney, with about 3.98 inches of precipitation.

What plant hardiness zone is WaKeeney in?

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

Has the climate in WaKeeney changed recently?

9% of WaKeeney'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.

WaKeeney, KS

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

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

Year-round temperatures (°F)

Avg high Avg low

Climate summary

WaKeeney has an annual average temperature of 53.9°F with about 23.9 inches of precipitation per year and 20.3 inches of snow. The warmest month is July (average high 92.9°F), and the coldest is January (average low 17.4°F). May is typically the wettest month (3.98 in) and January the driest (0.57 in). Snow typically falls from October through April.

Annual swing

49.4°F

warmest to coldest month

Heating need

5,139

HDD/yr

Cooling need

1,143

CDD/yr

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Climate change signal

All-time records →

33 of 366 (9%) of WaKeeney'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		0
1900s		8
1910s		36
1920s		32
1930s		66
1940s		31
1950s		25
1960s		13
1970s		12
1980s		27
1990s		20
2000s		40
2010s		37
2020s		19

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	42.3°F	17.4°F	29.8°F	0.57 in	4.3 in	4
February	46.2°F	20.0°F	33.1°F	0.85 in	4.3 in	5
March	57.1°F	28.7°F	42.9°F	1.32 in	3.2 in	5
April	66.2°F	37.9°F	52.0°F	2.04 in	1.3 in	7
May	75.9°F	49.4°F	62.7°F	3.98 in	—	10
June	87.5°F	60.4°F	74.0°F	3.09 in	—	8
July	92.9°F	65.5°F	79.2°F	3.80 in	—	8
August	90.3°F	63.2°F	76.7°F	3.04 in	—	8
September	82.4°F	54.1°F	68.2°F	1.83 in	—	6
October	69.2°F	40.5°F	54.8°F	1.64 in	1.1 in	5
November	55.1°F	28.4°F	41.8°F	0.88 in	1.8 in	4
December	43.6°F	19.6°F	31.6°F	0.88 in	4.3 in	4