NOAA NCEI Climate Normals 1991–2020
Kansas Weather by Month
Temperature, rain and the hurricane season at 99 Kansas stations, month by month.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
The median station records 34.4 inches of precipitation a year; Pittsburg, KS records the most, 47.9 inches, and Syracuse 1NE, KS the least, 17.0 (2.8 times as much). July is the hottest month at the median station (average high 91°F); the hottest July is at Abilene, KS, 94°F. January is the coldest (average low 19°F); the coldest January nights are at Syracuse 1NE, KS, 14°F. Highs reach 90°F on 55 days a year at the median station and on 81 at Liberal, KS, the most. Snowfall is heaviest at Goodland, KS, 30.0 inches a year.
This page compares the 1991–2020 NOAA climate normals of 99 Kansas weather stations, each the nearest station with full normals to at least one of the 171 Kansas cities on this site that have one within 25 miles.
At the median station, May is the wettest month (5.1 inches) and January the driest (0.8). Station by station, the wettest month is May at 65, June at 23 and July at 10 of the 99, and the driest January at 95 and February at 4. The gap between the wettest and driest station is widest in May: 5.3 inches.
Month by month across Kansas
High, low and precipitation are the median of the 99 stations; the station columns name the station with the highest average high, the lowest average low, and the most and least precipitation that month, each linked to the city page it serves. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.
Kansas cities and their stations
| City | Station | Miles | Hottest month high °F | Coldest month low °F | Year precip. in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter Springs | Columbus, KS | 12 | 90 | 23 | 46.2 |
| Galena | Joplin Regional Airport, MO | 9 | 90 | 25 | 45.7 |
| Oakley | Oakley 4W, KS | 6 | 92 | 16 | 20.8 |
How stations are matched to cities and what normals are: methodology · other states by month