NOAA NCEI Climate Normals 1991–2020
Nebraska Weather by Month
Temperature, rain and the hurricane season at 66 Nebraska stations, month by month.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
The median station records 27.8 inches of precipitation a year; Falls City Brenner Field, NE records the most, 34.6 inches, and Alliance Municipal Airport, NE the least, 14.9 (2.3 times as much). July is the hottest month at the median station (average high 87°F); the hottest July is at Bridgeport, NE, 92°F. January is the coldest (average low 14°F); the coldest January nights are at Osmond, NE, 10°F. Highs reach 90°F on 32 days a year at the median station and on 57 at Bridgeport, NE, the most. Snowfall is heaviest at Chadron 3SW, NE, 50.3 inches a year.
This page compares the 1991–2020 NOAA climate normals of 66 Nebraska weather stations, each the nearest station with full normals to at least one of the 91 Nebraska cities on this site that have one within 25 miles.
At the median station, May is the wettest month (4.4 inches) and January the driest (0.6). Station by station, the wettest month is May at 41, June at 24 and July at 1 of the 66, and the driest January at 63, December at 2 and February at 1. The gap between the wettest and driest station is widest in July: 3.5 inches.
Month by month across Nebraska
High, low and precipitation are the median of the 66 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.
Nebraska cities and their stations
How stations are matched to cities and what normals are: methodology · other states by month