What is the hottest month in Yates Center?

July is the warmest month in Yates Center, with an average high of 89.3°F.

What is the coldest month in Yates Center?

January is the coldest month in Yates Center, with an average low of 20.6°F.

What month does Yates Center get the most rain?

May is typically the wettest month in Yates Center, with about 5.89 inches of precipitation.

What plant hardiness zone is Yates Center in?

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

Has the climate in Yates Center changed recently?

8.5% of Yates Center'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.

Yates Center, KS

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

Dfa Hot-summer humid continental climate 7b USDA hardiness Zone 7b

Year-round temperatures (°F)

Avg high Avg low

Climate summary

Yates Center has an annual average temperature of 55.9°F with about 41.8 inches of precipitation per year and 9 inches of snow. The warmest month is July (average high 89.3°F), and the coldest is January (average low 20.6°F). May is typically the wettest month (5.89 in) and January the driest (1.07 in). Snow typically falls from October through March.

Pleasant months

1 / 12

avg high 65–80°F, low ≥ 50°F

Annual swing

47.5°F

warmest to coldest month

Heating need

4,494

HDD/yr

Cooling need

1,203

CDD/yr

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Climate change signal

All-time records →

31 of 366 (8.5%) of Yates Center'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		28
1900s		43
1910s		68
1920s		33
1940s		0
1950s		32
1960s		43
1970s		22
1980s		28
1990s		19
2000s		12
2010s		19
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	42.0°F	20.6°F	31.3°F	1.07 in	3.1 in	4
February	47.4°F	24.2°F	35.8°F	1.63 in	1.8 in	5
March	57.3°F	33.1°F	45.2°F	2.67 in	1.0 in	7
April	66.9°F	43.2°F	55.0°F	4.12 in	—	9
May	75.2°F	54.5°F	64.8°F	5.89 in	—	10
June	84.6°F	63.9°F	74.2°F	5.47 in	—	8
July	89.3°F	68.3°F	78.8°F	5.04 in	—	8
August	88.8°F	66.3°F	77.6°F	3.75 in	—	7
September	81.2°F	57.9°F	69.5°F	4.37 in	—	7
October	69.6°F	46.0°F	57.8°F	3.73 in	0.2 in	7
November	56.8°F	33.9°F	45.4°F	2.26 in	0.6 in	5
December	45.1°F	24.6°F	34.9°F	1.81 in	2.3 in	5