This weather has a price Keeping the median Shoshone County home comfortable runs roughly $468 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Shoshone County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

69.8°

average daily high. The coldest month is December, averaging a low of 18.0°F.

Shoshone County gets 45.09" of precipitation a year, and 40% of it falls in Nov, Dec, Jan.

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	27.6°	19.1°	5.90"
February	28.3°	18.6°	4.66"
March	34.3°	22.4°	5.03"
April	40.2°	27.4°	3.60"
May	50.3°	35.7°	2.96"
June	58.2°	42.1°	3.12"
July	69.8°	52.0°	1.09"
August	69.4°	51.4°	1.14"
September	59.1°	43.5°	1.65"
October	44.2°	31.9°	3.89"
November	31.9°	23.5°	6.01"
December	26.7°	18.0°	6.04"

Rainfall by month

Precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year here, with 40% falling in the wettest three months (Nov, Dec, Jan).

January 5.90"

February 4.66"

March 5.03"

April 3.60"

May 2.96"

June 3.12"

July 1.09"

August 1.14"

September 1.65"

October 3.89"

November 6.01"

December 6.04"

Annual total 45.09"

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 102

Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 9,714

Approximate annual cooling cost At 13.37¢/kWh, Idaho average $14

Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $455

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 Shoshone County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Shoshone County?

Shoshone County averages a high of 69.8°F in July and a low of 18.0°F in December. Annual precipitation is 45.09 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Shoshone County?

The wettest stretch is Nov, Dec, Jan, which accounts for 40% of the year's precipitation. Precipitation is relatively evenly distributed across the year.

How hot does it get in Shoshone County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 69.8°F. That drives 102 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Shoshone County?

The weather station used for Shoshone County, MULLAN PASS VOR/DME, ID 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 45.09 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 MULLAN PASS VOR/DME, ID US (USW00024154), 13.5 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, Idaho residential average.
Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.