This weather has a price Keeping the median Saguache County home comfortable runs roughly $482 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Saguache County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

80.2°

average daily high. The coldest month is January, averaging a low of 7.0°F.

Saguache County gets 8.39" of precipitation a year, and 49% of it falls in Jul, Aug, Sep.

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	35.5°	7.0°	0.20"
February	41.2°	11.4°	0.26"
March	51.1°	21.5°	0.39"
April	59.3°	26.9°	0.70"
May	68.0°	36.4°	0.53"
June	77.5°	43.6°	0.62"
July	80.2°	49.6°	1.29"
August	78.7°	48.7°	1.86"
September	73.4°	40.4°	0.99"
October	62.1°	29.7°	0.66"
November	48.7°	19.6°	0.58"
December	35.9°	7.5°	0.31"

Rainfall by month

Saguache County has a distinct wet season. 49% of the year's precipitation arrives in Jul, Aug, Sep.

January 0.20"

February 0.26"

March 0.39"

April 0.70"

May 0.53"

June 0.62"

July 1.29"

August 1.86"

September 0.99"

October 0.66"

November 0.58"

December 0.31"

Annual total 8.39"

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 96

Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 7,759

Approximate annual cooling cost At 17.13¢/kWh, Colorado average $16

Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $465

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 Saguache County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Saguache County?

Saguache County averages a high of 80.2°F in July and a low of 7.0°F in January. Annual precipitation is 8.39 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Saguache County?

The wettest stretch is Jul, Aug, Sep, which accounts for 49% of the year's precipitation. That is a pronounced wet season rather than rain spread evenly through the year.

How hot does it get in Saguache County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 80.2°F. That drives 96 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Saguache County?

The weather station used for Saguache County, SAGUACHE, CO 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 8.39 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 SAGUACHE, CO US (USC00057337), 6.2 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, Colorado residential average.
Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.