This weather has a price Keeping the median Esmeralda County home comfortable runs roughly $405 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Esmeralda County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

96.7°

average daily high. The coldest month is December, averaging a low of 17.6°F.

Esmeralda County gets 4.33" of precipitation a year, and 32% of it falls in Feb, Mar, Apr.

Temperature through the year

Each bar spans the average daily low to the average daily high for that month.

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Precip
January	46.4°	18.8°	0.27"
February	52.9°	24.3°	0.40"
March	61.6°	32.7°	0.50"
April	67.7°	39.2°	0.47"
May	77.9°	49.0°	0.32"
June	89.2°	57.3°	0.24"
July	96.7°	63.2°	0.69"
August	94.6°	60.7°	0.41"
September	85.4°	51.3°	0.24"
October	71.6°	38.0°	0.30"
November	56.5°	26.5°	0.27"
December	44.8°	17.6°	0.22"

Rainfall by month

Precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year here, with 32% falling in the wettest three months (Feb, Mar, Apr).

January 0.27"

February 0.40"

March 0.50"

April 0.47"

May 0.32"

June 0.24"

July 0.69"

August 0.41"

September 0.24"

October 0.30"

November 0.27"

December 0.22"

Annual total 4.33"

What this climate costs you

Degree days measure how hard a building has to work to stay comfortable. They are the reason two identical houses have very different power bills, and they are the link between the weather here and what you pay every month.

Cooling degree days How much air conditioning the climate demands 1,364

Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 4,921

Approximate annual cooling cost At 13.11¢/kWh, Nevada average $179

Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $226

These are rough planning figures from degree days and the state electricity price, not a bill estimate. House size, insulation and fuel type move them a lot. See the full cost of owning a home in Esmeralda County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Esmeralda County?

Esmeralda County averages a high of 96.7°F in July and a low of 17.6°F in December. Annual precipitation is 4.33 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Esmeralda County?

The wettest stretch is Feb, Mar, Apr, which accounts for 32% of the year's precipitation. Precipitation is relatively evenly distributed across the year.

How hot does it get in Esmeralda County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 96.7°F. That drives 1,364 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Esmeralda County?

The weather station used for Esmeralda County, SILVERPEAK, NV US, reports temperature and precipitation but not snowfall, so there is no snow normal to quote here. Precipitation that falls as snow is still counted in the 4.33 inches above, measured as melted water.

Sources

Temperature, precipitation and snowfall normals: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 1991 to 2020 Monthly Climate Normals, station SILVERPEAK, NV US (USC00267463), 3.8 miles from the county centroid.
Heating and cooling degree days: NOAA, same station and period.
Annual figures on this page are the sum of that station's twelve monthly normals. NOAA also publishes a separately-computed annual normal, which can differ from the monthly sum by a few percent; we use the monthly series because the month-by-month breakdown above has to come from it.
Electricity price: US Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A, Nevada residential average.
Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.