What is the hottest month in Zurich?

July is the warmest month in Zurich, with an average high of 91.3°F.

What is the coldest month in Zurich?

January is the coldest month in Zurich, with an average low of 17.3°F.

What month does Zurich get the most rain?

May is typically the wettest month in Zurich, with about 4.10 inches of precipitation.

What plant hardiness zone is Zurich in?

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

Has the climate in Zurich changed recently?

15% of Zurich'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.

Zurich, KS

Climate overview — based on NOAA 1991-2020 normals from PLAINVILLE 4WNW, KS US.

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

Year-round temperatures (°F)

Avg high Avg low

Climate summary

Zurich has an annual average temperature of 53.3°F with about 26.1 inches of precipitation per year and 19.7 inches of snow. The warmest month is July (average high 91.3°F), and the coldest is January (average low 17.3°F). May is typically the wettest month (4.10 in) and January the driest (0.64 in). Snow typically falls from October through April.

Annual swing

48.9°F

warmest to coldest month

Heating need

5,256

HDD/yr

Cooling need

1,059

CDD/yr

Best time to visit Zurich

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Climate change signal

All-time records →

55 of 366 (15%) of Zurich'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		2
1910s		14
1920s		30
1930s		86
1940s		29
1950s		44
1960s		24
1970s		15
1980s		21
1990s		12
2000s		16
2010s		37
2020s		36

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	41.3°F	17.3°F	29.3°F	0.64 in	4.8 in	3
February	45.0°F	19.6°F	32.3°F	0.83 in	5.4 in	4
March	56.2°F	28.5°F	42.3°F	1.40 in	2.0 in	5
April	65.4°F	37.6°F	51.5°F	2.22 in	1.2 in	7
May	74.6°F	49.0°F	61.8°F	4.10 in	0.1 in	9
June	85.9°F	59.9°F	72.9°F	3.28 in	—	9
July	91.3°F	65.2°F	78.2°F	3.95 in	—	8
August	88.9°F	63.5°F	76.2°F	3.64 in	—	8
September	81.4°F	54.5°F	68.0°F	2.24 in	—	6
October	68.5°F	41.1°F	54.8°F	1.71 in	0.6 in	5
November	54.6°F	28.6°F	41.6°F	1.15 in	1.9 in	4
December	42.6°F	19.9°F	31.2°F	0.95 in	3.7 in	4