This weather has a price Keeping the median Wheeler County home comfortable runs roughly $407 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Wheeler County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

91.3°

average daily high. The coldest month is December, averaging a low of 28.0°F.

Wheeler County gets 9.76" of precipitation a year, and 34% 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	44.5°	28.7°	1.01"
February	49.8°	28.9°	0.64"
March	56.0°	33.7°	0.88"
April	61.6°	37.3°	1.08"
May	71.3°	44.1°	1.37"
June	79.6°	49.6°	0.91"
July	91.3°	55.4°	0.45"
August	90.1°	54.2°	0.39"
September	80.5°	48.1°	0.29"
October	65.6°	39.5°	0.75"
November	51.2°	32.4°	1.01"
December	43.4°	28.0°	0.98"

Rainfall by month

Precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year here, with 34% falling in the wettest three months (Apr, May, Jun).

January 1.01"

February 0.64"

March 0.88"

April 1.08"

May 1.37"

June 0.91"

July 0.45"

August 0.39"

September 0.29"

October 0.75"

November 1.01"

December 0.98"

Annual total 9.76"

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 690

Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 5,149

Approximate annual cooling cost At 16.32¢/kWh, Oregon average $113

Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $294

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 Wheeler County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Wheeler County?

Wheeler County averages a high of 91.3°F in July and a low of 28.0°F in December. Annual precipitation is 9.76 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Wheeler County?

The wettest stretch is Apr, May, Jun, which accounts for 34% of the year's precipitation. Precipitation is relatively evenly distributed across the year.

How hot does it get in Wheeler County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 91.3°F. That drives 690 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Wheeler County?

The weather station used for Wheeler County, JOHN DAY 35 WNW, OR 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 9.76 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 JOHN DAY 35 WNW, OR US (USW00004125), 22.5 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, Oregon residential average.
Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.