Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit La Conner, WA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Whidbey Island NAS, WA, 8 miles west of La Conner at 47 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 70°F and low of 54°F; December is the coolest, at 49°F and 38°F. November is the wettest at 3.1 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.6 inches; the year adds up to 19.9 inches over 63 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs of 90°F are rare: fewer than one day a year on average. Lows fall below freezing on about 40 nights a year. Snowfall averages 5.4 inches a year, most of it in December. That 19.9 inches is more than at 35 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (41%). Anacortes, 9 miles northwest, has its own station (Anacortes, WA): 29.2 inches a year, 9.3 more than here, and an August average high of 75°F against 70°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Port Townsend, WA, 23 miles southwest, averaged 53°F in August and 46°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Port Townsend tide gauge, 23 miles from La Conner, has risen 0.72 ± 0.11 inches per decade from 1972 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 7.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 34 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Flood insurance policyholders in La Conner's ZIP code 98257 have filed 12 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $276,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 25% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 128 Washington cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 6 have fewer than La Conner.