Garden City climate — normals and trends
Garden City (United States) has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 12.5 °C and it receives 522 mm of precipitation per year.
These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.
The warmest month is July (26.0 °C on average) and the coldest is January (-1.2 °C). Rainfall peaks in May.
Garden City averages 114 frost days, 80 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 76 rainy days per year.
Garden City has warmed by +1.5 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.17 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 122 to 106 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 42.4 °C (on 27 June 2012) and the coldest -28.9 °C (on 4 January 1947).
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
Climate normals · ERA5
Garden CityKansas
- coords
- 37.97°, -100.87°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
Mean daily temperature
12.5°C
Average daily high
19.5°C
Average daily low
6.4°C
Annual rainfall
522mm
Sunshine / day
10.1h
Mean relative humidity
59%
Average peak wind
23.4km/h
Seasonal range
27.2°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
114 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
80 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
76 d/yr
Annual snowfall
48.3 cm
Average feels-like high
16.7 °C
Average feels-like low
3.1 °C
Average peak gust
42.9 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
35 d/yr
Solar radiation
18.0 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025
+1.5 °C
since 1940
+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.27 · p = < 0.001
Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.
Records for the period
Hottest day
42.4 °C
27 June 2012
Coldest day
-28.9 °C
4 January 1947
Wettest day
76 mm
4 June 1989
Windiest day
67.2 km/h
15 December 2021
Strongest gust
119.9 km/h
15 December 2021
Hottest feels-like
43.8 °C
27 June 2013
Coldest feels-like
-34.2 °C
4 January 1947
Snowiest day
29.4 cm
30 April 2017
Sunniest day
14.4 h
10 June 2020
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
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Across the whole year
Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 4.7 °C | -1.0 °C | 14 mm | -3 mm |
| Feb | 7.4 °C | -1.0 °C | 12 mm | -9 mm |
| Mar | 19.4 °C | +6.1 °C | 22 mm | -21 mm |
| Apr | 20.9 °C | +1.8 °C | 49 mm | -4 mm |
| May | 22.9 °C | -1.0 °C | 105 mm | +27 mm |
| Jun | 30.0 °C | +0.1 °C | 73 mm | +3 mm |
| Jul | 32.5 °C | -0.2 °C | 48 mm | -11 mm |
| Aug | 31.1 °C | -0.6 °C | 87 mm | +29 mm |
| Sep | 27.4 °C | -0.1 °C | 110 mm | +66 mm |
| Oct | 21.8 °C | +0.7 °C | 31 mm | -8 mm |
| Nov | 15.7 °C | +2.8 °C | 26 mm | +4 mm |
| Dec | 13.6 °C | +6.3 °C | 2 mm | -17 mm |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Garden City?
Garden City has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 12.5 °C and it receives 522 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Garden City?
The hottest day measured in Garden City between 1940 and 2025 was 27 June 2012, reaching 42.4 °C.
What is the coldest day in Garden City?
The coldest day measured in Garden City between 1940 and 2025 was 4 January 1947, at -28.9 °C.
Does it snow in Garden City?
Yes. Garden City gets on average 48.3 cm of snow per year and has around 114 frost days.
Has the climate of Garden City warmed?
Yes: Garden City warmed by +1.5 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Garden City?
The wettest day measured in Garden City between 1940 and 2025 was 4 June 1989, with 76 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Garden City?
The windiest day measured in Garden City between 1940 and 2025 was 15 December 2021, with winds reaching 67.2 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Garden City?
The warmest month in Garden City is July (26.0 °C on average); the coldest is January (-1.2 °C).
How much does it rain in Garden City?
Garden City receives on average 522 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 76 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Garden City?
Garden City gets on average 10.1 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,687 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Garden City?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Garden City between 1940 and 2025 was 30 April 2017, with 29.4 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Garden City?
Yes: Garden City has on average 35 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Garden City?
In Garden City, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 43.8 °C on 27 June 2013, and the lowest was -34.2 °C on 4 January 1947.
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