Climate and average weather in Keizer

In Keizer, the summers are hot, dry, and mostly clear and the winters are cool and mostly cloudy.

Best: late May to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Keizer typically varies from 37°F to 83°F, and is rarely below 27°F or above 96°F. August is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Keizer for warm-weather activities is from late May to mid October.

Hottest
Aug
83°
Coldest
Dec
37°
Wettest
Dec
7.1 in
Driest
Jul
0.3 in
Rain / yr
41.2 in
126 wet days
Daylight
8.6–15.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
138 ft
45.0°N
Clearest
Aug
31% cloud

Keizer is city in Oregon, USA.

Density
2,030/km²
people per km²
Founded
1982

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Keizer weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late May to mid October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Keizer, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.0 months, from June 22 to September 19, with daily high temperatures above 76°F. The hottest month of the year in Keizer is August, with an average high of 83°F and low of 57°F.

The cool season lasts 3.7 months, from November 12 to March 5, with daily high temperatures below 54°F. The coldest month of the year in Keizer is December, with an average low of 37°F and high of 47°F.

Days typically run about 18°F warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 26°F) in August.

20°40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan4837
Feb5238
Mar5640
Apr6143
May6848
Jun7453
Jul8357
Aug8357
Sep7753
Oct6446
Nov5341
Dec4737

How hot and cold Keizer really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about 32°F (around January 1), with roughly 26 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 32°F), worst in January.

20°40°60°80°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°F)Air high (°F)Feels-like low (°F)Air low (°F)
Jan48483237
Feb52523338
Mar56563640
Apr61614043
May68684648
Jun74745353
Jul83835757
Aug84835757
Sep77775353
Oct64644446
Nov53533741
Dec47473237

Average hourly temperature in Keizer

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 83°F, and coldest before dawn in December, near 37°F.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Keizer weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°F)Rainfall (inches)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan48° / 37°6.115.90.791.5
Feb52° / 38°4.613.70.810.12.3
Mar56° / 40°5.115.70.411.63.2
Apr61° / 43°3.614.3013.24.3
May68° / 48°2.29014.66.3
Jun74° / 53°1.25.9015.47.4
Jul83° / 57°0.31.9015.17.3
Aug83° / 57°0.42013.97.2
Sep77° / 53°1.24.8012.37.9
Oct64° / 46°3.410.3010.75.7
Nov53° / 41°6.015.90.19.32.6
Dec47° / 37°7.116.80.68.61.2

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Keizer gets about 41.2 in of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.4 months, from around Oct 20 to May 2, peaking in November at about 56% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 2.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 7.1 in over about 17 wet days; July is the driest, with 0.3 in.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 26 · 56%Aug 2 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5116
Feb4914
Mar5116
Apr4714
May309
Jun196
Jul72
Aug62
Sep175
Oct3310
Nov5216
Dec5517

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Keizer collects about 41.2 in of rain across 126 wet days — roughly 3.4 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 7.1 in, while July is the driest at just 0.3 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec6.14.65.13.62.21.20.30.41.23.46.07.1
Rainfall (in)Rain daysSnow days
Jan6.1161
Feb4.6141
Mar5.1160
Apr3.6140
May2.290
Jun1.260
Jul0.320
Aug0.420
Sep1.250
Oct3.4100
Nov6.0160
Dec7.1171

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Keizer, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around June 9 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around October 25. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 77% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 26 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around June 8. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 79% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 1 · 81%Dec 16 · 19%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2476
Feb2773
Mar2773
Apr2971
May3763
Jun4852
Jul7228
Aug7723
Sep6535
Oct4852
Nov2872
Dec2179

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 12, brings about 15 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 8 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.07:534:50
Feb10.17:235:30
Mar11.66:336:10
Apr13.25:356:50
May14.64:497:28
Jun15.44:307:54
Jul15.14:457:51
Aug13.95:197:13
Sep12.35:576:16
Oct10.76:365:19
Nov9.37:184:36
Dec8.67:504:26

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Keizer averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.3 months, from around Jun 16 to Oct 23. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is December, down near 4 sunny days — about 79% fewer than the July peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 3122 daysDec 183 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun9Mixed
Jul19Bright
Aug20Bright
Sep15Bright
Oct10Mixed
Nov5Gloomy
Dec4Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Keizer, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in September, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 1% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr9910
May9540
Jun9281
Jul83161
Aug80191
Sep85141
Oct9551
Nov9820
Dec10000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Keizer is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 mphcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeNov 24 · 6 mphAug 14 · 5 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Keizer

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Keizer's rainy season runs October–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Keizer

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Keizer throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early October, Keizer is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 64°F and 82°F. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Keizer for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to mid October, with a peak score in the first week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 6 · 7.9

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan1.5poor
Feb2.3poor
Mar3.2poor
Apr4.4fair
May6.3good
Jun7.4good
Jul7.3good
Aug7.3good
Sep7.8ideal
Oct5.7good
Nov2.6poor
Dec1.2poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 75°F and 93°F. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Keizer for hot-weather activities is from late June to mid September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 3 · 8.9

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Keizer, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around August (highs near 83°F), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near 47°F), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Keizer sees daytime highs around 83°F and nights near 57°F. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Keizer by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Keizer peaks around July 17 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 17 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateVery highHighModerateLowJul 17UV 8Dec 17UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr5High
May8Very high
Jun7High
Jul8Very high
Aug7Very high
Sep5Moderate
Oct4Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Keizer

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar40
Apr60
May84.5
Jun84
Jul85
Aug7.53.5
Sep50
Oct2.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Keizer by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Keizer is worst in September — around 34 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 5.1× the cleanest month (January, 7 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 1531 µg/m³Jan 167 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan7Good
Feb8Good
Mar11Good
Apr11Good
May9Good
Jun8Good
Jul7Good
Aug14Moderate
Sep34Moderate
Oct11Good
Nov10Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Keizer is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 8 to November 15 (253 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 890%Nov 1590%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7731
Feb8228
Mar937
Apr990
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov8916
Dec7631

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 50°F)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 50°F: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Keizer banks about 2,557 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°F·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr55
May242
Jun398
Jul620
Aug629
Sep446
Oct166
Nov1
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Keizer receives about 3.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.0 and 7.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 31 to Sep 27. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.1 kWh/m² — roughly 84% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 227.0 kWhDec 161.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.3Dim
Feb2.1Moderate
Mar3.2Moderate
Apr4.5Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun6.2Intense
Jul7.0Intense
Aug6.2Intense
Sep4.6Bright
Oct2.7Moderate
Nov1.5Dim
Dec1.1Dim

Where is Keizer?

Keizer sits at 45.0°N, 123.0°W, 138 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Hayesville, 1.9 mi away.

Topography around Keizer

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 2, 10 and 50 miles of Keizer.

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Keizer has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 108 ft around an average of 144 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,079 ft; within 50 miles, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 5,492 ft.

The land around Keizer is covered by trees (39%) and artificial surfaces (36%) within 2 miles, trees (37%), cropland (31%) and grassland (21%) within 10 miles, and trees (71%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
108 ft
10 miles
1,079 ft
50 miles
5,492 ft
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Hayesville 1.9 mi · Salem 3.1 mi · Four Corners 5.0 mi · Woodburn 14 mi · Dallas 15 mi · McMinnville 17 mi · Newberg 22 mi · Wilsonville 25 mi

United States travel facts

Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 100% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$90,027
2025
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
98%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
5.8
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
12.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Protestant 47%unaffiliated 23%Roman Catholic 21%Jewish 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Keizer (44.9901°, -123.0262°, elevation 138 ft), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).