This weather has a price Keeping the median Payne County home comfortable runs roughly $486 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Payne County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

93.6°

average daily high. The coldest month is January, averaging a low of 25.7°F.

Payne County gets 36.04" of precipitation a year, and 37% of it falls in Apr, May, Jun.

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	49.1°	25.7°	1.32"
February	53.7°	29.6°	1.56"
March	63.2°	38.4°	2.75"
April	71.8°	47.2°	4.15"
May	79.4°	57.5°	4.71"
June	88.2°	67.1°	4.64"
July	93.6°	71.4°	3.42"
August	92.8°	69.8°	3.66"
September	84.7°	61.0°	2.94"
October	73.4°	48.8°	2.94"
November	61.2°	36.9°	2.28"
December	50.6°	28.6°	1.67"

Rainfall by month

Precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year here, with 37% falling in the wettest three months (Apr, May, Jun).

January 1.32"

February 1.56"

March 2.75"

April 4.15"

May 4.71"

June 4.64"

July 3.42"

August 3.66"

September 2.94"

October 2.94"

November 2.28"

December 1.67"

Annual total 36.04"

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 1,980

Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 3,711

Approximate annual cooling cost At 14.82¢/kWh, Oklahoma average $293

Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $192

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 Payne County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Payne County?

Payne County averages a high of 93.6°F in July and a low of 25.7°F in January. Annual precipitation is 36.04 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Payne County?

The wettest stretch is Apr, May, Jun, which accounts for 37% of the year's precipitation. Precipitation is relatively evenly distributed across the year.

How hot does it get in Payne County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 93.6°F. That drives 1,980 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Payne County?

The weather station used for Payne County, STILLWATER 2 W, OK 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 36.04 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 STILLWATER 2 W, OK US (USW00053926), 7 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, Oklahoma residential average.
Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.