This weather has a price Keeping the median Sargent County home comfortable runs roughly $510 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Sargent County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

81.0°

average daily high. The coldest month is January, averaging a low of -0.6°F.

Sargent County gets 23.17" of precipitation a year, and 46% of it falls in May, Jun, Jul.

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	18.3°	-0.6°	0.67"
February	23.2°	3.4°	0.52"
March	36.5°	16.5°	0.96"
April	52.9°	30.7°	1.85"
May	66.4°	43.9°	2.83"
June	75.9°	55.0°	4.31"
July	81.0°	59.3°	3.60"
August	79.7°	56.5°	2.21"
September	71.4°	46.8°	2.53"
October	55.7°	33.5°	2.23"
November	38.4°	19.6°	0.82"
December	24.6°	7.1°	0.64"

Rainfall by month

Sargent County has a distinct wet season. 46% of the year's precipitation arrives in May, Jun, Jul.

January 0.67"

February 0.52"

March 0.96"

April 1.85"

May 2.83"

June 4.31"

July 3.60"

August 2.21"

September 2.53"

October 2.23"

November 0.82"

December 0.64"

Annual total 23.17"

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 466

Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 8,993

Approximate annual cooling cost At 14.12¢/kWh, North Dakota average $66

Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $444

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 Sargent County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Sargent County?

Sargent County averages a high of 81.0°F in July and a low of -0.6°F in January. Annual precipitation is 23.17 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Sargent County?

The wettest stretch is May, Jun, Jul, which accounts for 46% 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 Sargent County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 81.0°F. That drives 466 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Sargent County?

The weather station used for Sargent County, FORMAN 5 SSE, ND 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 23.17 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 FORMAN 5 SSE, ND US (USC00323117), 5.4 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, North Dakota residential average.
Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.