North Platte, Nebraska Climate & Temperature
- North Platte, Nebraska, Usa is at 41°7'N, 100°42'W, 848 m (2783 ft). See map.
- North Platte, Nebraska has a humid continental climate with severe winters, no dry season, hot summers and strong seasonality (Köppen-Geiger classification: Dfa).
- According to the Holdridge life zones system of bioclimatic classification North Platte, Nebraska is situated in or near the cool temperate steppe biome.
- The annual average temperature is 8.9 degrees Celsius (48 degrees Fahrenheit). See the temperatures page for a monthly breakdown and the fixed scale graph.
- Average monthly temperatures vary by 29.1 °C (52.4°F). This indicates that the continentality type is continental, subtype truly continental.
- In the winter time records indicate temperatures by day reach 3.1°C (37.5°F) on average falling to -11.5°C (11.4°F) overnight.
- In spring time temperatures climb reaching 16.3°C (61.3°F) generally in the afternoon with overnight lows of 1°C (33.9°F).
- During summer average high temperatures are 29.5°C (85.2°F) and average low temperatures are 14°C (57.3°F).
- Come autumn/ fall temperatures decrease achieving average highs of 17.7°C (63.9°F) during the day and lows of 0.9°C (33.7°F) generally shortly after sunrise.
- Total annual Precipitation averages 490.1 mm (19.3 inches) which is equivalent to 490.1 Litres/m² (12.02 Gallons/ft²).
- On average there are 2867 hours of sunshine per year. Visit the sunshine and daylight section to check monthly details including how high in the sky the sun reaches each month.
- Were you to burrow down through the centre of the Earth from North Platte, Nebraska you would pop up nearest to the climate station at Amsterdam Island, French Southern Lands where you would find a Marine west coast climate.
North Platte, Nebraska Climate Table
| Climate Variable | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Annual | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average Max Temperature °C ( °F) | 1 (35) | 5 (41) | 10 (50) | 17 (62) | 22 (72) | 28 (82) | 31 (88) | 30 (86) | 25 (77) | 19 (66) | 10 (49) | 3 (37) | 17 (62) | ||
| Average Temperature °C ( °F) | -6 (22) | -2 (28) | 3 (37) | 9 (48) | 15 (58) | 20 (68) | 23 (74) | 22 (72) | 16 (61) | 10 (50) | 2 (35) | -4 (24) | 9 (48) | ||
| Average Min Temperature °C ( °F) | -13 (9) | -10 (14) | -5 (23) | 1 (34) | 7 (45) | 12 (54) | 16 (60) | 14 (58) | 8 (46) | 1 (33) | -6 (21) | -12 (11) | 1 (34) | ||
| Average Precipitation mm (in) | 9 (0) | 11 (0) | 31 (1) | 51 (2) | 87 (3) | 86 (3) | 78 (3) | 44 (2) | 41 (2) | 25 (1) | 17 (1) | 12 (0) | 490 (19) | ||
| Number of Wet Days (probability of rain on a day %) | 5 (16) | 6 (21) | 7 (23) | 8 (27) | 11 (35) | 10 (33) | 9 (29) | 9 (29) | 6 (20) | 4 (13) | 4 (13) | 4 (13) | 83 (23) | ||
| Average Sunlight Hours/ Day | 5h 27' | 5h 58' | 6h 30' | 8h 04' | 8h 40' | 10h 30' | 10h 38' | 9h 42' | 8h 56' | 7h 48' | 6h 02' | 5h 46' | 7h 50' | ||
| Average Daylight Hours/ Day | 9h 34' | 10h 34' | 11h 52' | 13h 17' | 14h 28' | 15h 05' | 14h 48' | 13h 47' | 12h 25' | 11h 01' | 9h 50' | 9h 15' | 12h 00' | ||
| Percentage of Sunny (Cloudy) Daylight Hours | 58 (42) | 58 (42) | 56 (44) | 62 (38) | 61 (39) | 70 (30) | 73 (27) | 71 (29) | 73 (27) | 72 (28) | 62 (38) | 64 (36) | 65 (35) | ||
| Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day (°). | 29.1 | 38.4 | 49.3 | 60.9 | 69.1 | 72.3 | 69.2 | 60.8 | 49.4 | 37.9 | 28.8 | 25.5 | 49.2 |
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