Weather Averages for Des Moines, IA

Weather Averages for
Des Moines, IA

Latitude: 41°32'N, Longitude: 93°39'W, Elevation: 938.0 ft, Distance: 5.03 mi

	Unit	Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Average temperature over 50 years	°F	50	19	24	37	51	62	71	75	73	64	53	37	26
Average high temperature over 50 years	°F	60	28	34	46	60	71	82	86	84	75	64	46	34
Average low temperature over 50 years	°F	39	10	16	26	39	51	60	66	64	53	43	28	17
Highest recorded temperature over 50 years	°F	107	64	69	91	93	98	102	105	107	98	95	75	69
Lowest recorded temperature over 50 years	°F	-23	-23	-20	-22	8	28	42	46	39	28	14	-4	-22
Average number of rainy days over 54 years	days	108	8	7	10	11	11	11	9	9	9	8	7	8
Average number of days above 90°F over 50 years	days	25	-	-	-	-	-	4	10	8	2	-	-	-
Average precipitation over 50 years	in	32.4	1.1	1.2	2.3	3.3	4.0	4.3	3.7	4.0	3.1	2.3	1.8	1.3
Average dew point over 51 years	°F	39	12	17	26	37	48	59	64	62	53	41	28	17
Most recorded rainfall over 50 years	in	55.9	4.4	3.0	5.8	7.8	7.9	9.5	10.5	13.7	10.2	6.9	6.5	3.4
Least recorded rainfall over 50 years	in	17.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	1.2	1.0	-	0.3	0.4	-	-	0.1
Average number of days with thunderstorms over 50 years	days	46	-	-	2	4	7	9	8	7	5	3	1	-
Average number of days with fog over 50 years	days	113	10	10	11	10	9	7	7	10	9	8	10	12
Average morning relative humidity over 51 years	%	81	77	79	80	78	79	81	84	86	85	80	79	80
Average evening relative humidity over 51 years	%	56	65	63	57	50	51	53	53	54	52	50	59	66
Average wind speed over 51 years	mph	12.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	16.0	11.0	11.0	9.0	9.0	10.0	10.0	14.0	14.0
Average number of days below 32°F over 50 years	days	137	30	26	21	7	-	-	-	-	-	4	19	29
Average snowfall over 54 years	in	33.2	8.1	7.2	6.2	1.9	-	-	-	-	-	0.2	3.0	6.6
Average number of days above 65°F over 50 years	days	176	-	-	4	12	24	29	31	31	26	16	3	-
Average number of clear days over 44 years	days	105	8	7	7	7	8	8	10	11	12	12	7	7
Heating degree days over 30 years	days	6497	1414	1128	859	428	165	10	-	11	71	372	780	1259
Cooling degree days over 30 years	days	1036	-	-	-	5	81	214	360	287	74	15	-	-
Average possibility of sunshine over 43 years	%	59	52	54	55	56	61	68	72	70	66	62	49	46
Average number of cloudy days over 44 years	days	164	16	15	17	15	15	11	10	10	11	12	16	17
Average number of partly cloudy days over 44 years	days	97	7	6	7	8	8	11	11	10	7	7	7	7
Average number of days below 5°F over 50 years	days	25	11	6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	6

Check weather averages for nearby locations (some locations might offer more data):

Latitude: 41°31'N, Longitude: 93°39'W, Elevation: 957.0 ft, Distance: 6.17 mi

Latitude: 41°43'N, Longitude: 93°34'W, Elevation: 940.0 ft, Distance: 8.42 mi

Latitude: 41°22'N, Longitude: 93°33'W, Elevation: 940.0 ft, Distance: 17.00 mi

Latitude: 41°22'N, Longitude: 94°1'W, Elevation: 1070.0 ft, Distance: 25.84 mi

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