Climate and average weather in Kingman

In Kingman, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are cool, snowy, and mostly clear.

Best: late March to late May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kingman typically varies from 34°F to 95°F, and is rarely below 25°F or above 101°F. July is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Kingman for warm-weather activities are from late March to late May and late September to mid November.

Hottest
Jul
95°
Coldest
Dec
34°
Wettest
Feb
2.0 in
Driest
Jun
0.1 in
Rain / yr
12.6 in
47 wet days
Daylight
9.6–14.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
3,350 ft
35.2°N
Clearest
Jun
17% cloud

Kingman is city in and seat of Mohave County, Arizona, United States.

Density
321/km²
people per km²
Founded
1952

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

Kingman 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 March to late May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.0 months, from May 28 to September 25, with daily high temperatures above 85°F. The hottest month of the year in Kingman is July, with an average high of 95°F and low of 73°F.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 22 to March 5, with daily high temperatures below 61°F. The coldest month of the year in Kingman is December, with an average low of 34°F and high of 54°F.

Days typically run about 22°F warmer than nights year-round.

20°40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan5535
Feb5837
Mar6443
Apr7249
May8158
Jun9167
Jul9573
Aug9472
Sep8765
Oct7653
Nov6342
Dec5434

How hot and cold Kingman 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 hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Kingman feels like about 95°F (around July 4). About 89 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about 28°F (around December 23), with roughly 69 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 32°F), worst in December.

20°40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°F)Air high (°F)Feels-like low (°F)Air low (°F)
Jan55553035
Feb58583337
Mar64643943
Apr72724749
May81815858
Jun91916767
Jul95957373
Aug94947272
Sep87876565
Oct76765353
Nov63633842
Dec54542934

Average hourly temperature in Kingman

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 July afternoons, near 95°F, and coldest before dawn in December, near 34°F.

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

Kingman 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
Jan55° / 35°1.6519.94.0
Feb58° / 37°2.05.91.110.74.8
Mar64° / 43°1.34.70.511.76.8
Apr72° / 49°0.62.70.212.98.3
May81° / 58°0.31.9013.87.9
Jun91° / 67°0.10.8014.34.7
Jul95° / 73°1.15.6014.12.9
Aug94° / 72°1.46.4013.33.3
Sep87° / 65°1.14012.25.8
Oct76° / 53°1.03.1011.18.5
Nov63° / 42°0.92.70.210.16.9
Dec54° / 34°1.1419.73.8

Chance of rain

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

Kingman gets about 12.6 in of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.7 months, from around Dec 8 to Mar 29, peaking in February at about 23% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 14.

February is the wettest month by volume, with 2.0 in over about 6 wet days; June is the driest, with 0.1 in. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdriermostly drysome rainFeb 23 · 23%Jun 14 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan165
Feb206
Mar165
Apr93
May62
Jun41
Jul166
Aug216
Sep144
Oct93
Nov93
Dec134

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kingman collects about 12.6 in of rain across 47 wet days — roughly 1.1 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. February is the wettest month with 2.0 in, while June is the driest at just 0.1 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

00.511.522.5JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1.62.01.30.60.30.11.11.41.11.00.91.1
Rainfall (in)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1.651
Feb2.061
Mar1.351
Apr0.630
May0.320
Jun0.110
Jul1.160
Aug1.460
Sep1.140
Oct1.030
Nov0.930
Dec1.141

Snow in Kingman

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Kingman averages about 4 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 30 to Mar 25 — about 3.8 months.

February is snowiest, with roughly 1.1 day of snow and an estimated 2 in of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 8 in of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonFeb 22
Snow daysSnowfall (in)
Jan12
Feb12
Mar11
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov01
Dec12

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

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

The clearer part of the year begins around April 12 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around July 19. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 89% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 23 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around April 11. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 37% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 16 · 91%Feb 18 · 61%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6535
Feb6337
Mar6931
Apr7822
May8218
Jun8911
Jul7921
Aug8317
Sep8812
Oct8515
Nov7822
Dec6832

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 15, brings about 14 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, only 9 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.97:495:42
Feb10.77:306:11
Mar11.76:546:38
Apr12.96:107:03
May13.85:377:28
Jun14.35:267:47
Jul14.15:377:46
Aug13.36:007:20
Sep12.26:246:37
Oct11.16:485:54
Nov10.17:185:25
Dec9.77:435:22

Sunny days

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

Kingman averages about 19 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 14 and 25 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 2.9 months, from around Apr 15 to Jul 12. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 24 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is February, down near 15 sunny days — about 39% fewer than the June peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 1625 daysFeb 2014 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan16Bright
Feb14Mixed
Mar17Bright
Apr19Bright
May21Bright
Jun24Brilliant
Jul19Bright
Aug20Bright
Sep23Brilliant
Oct23Bright
Nov20Bright
Dec17Bright

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 Kingman, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 11% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 10 · 100%Jul 27 · 85%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan100000
Feb100000
Mar100000
Apr100000
May100000
Jun98100
Jul781183
Aug7016112
Sep831161
Oct99100
Nov100000
Dec100000

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Kingman is typically calm, near 6 mph, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around Feb 24 to Jul 18. The windiest month is June, averaging about 7 mph (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jul 19 to Feb 23, with November the calmest month at about 5 mph.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 11 · 7 mphNov 16 · 5 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Kingman

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late March, Kingman is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 times of year to visit Kingman for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid March to late May and again from late September to mid November, with a peak score in the third week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 16 · 8.7

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
Jan4.0fair
Feb4.8fair
Mar6.7good
Apr8.2ideal
May7.9ideal
Jun4.7fair
Jul2.9poor
Aug3.3poor
Sep5.8good
Oct8.4ideal
Nov6.9good
Dec3.9fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 75°F and 93°F. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Kingman for hot-weather activities run from late April to late June and again from late August to mid October, with a peak score in the last week of May.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 28 · 8.8

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 Kingman, 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 July (highs near 95°F), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near 54°F), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Kingman sees daytime highs around 95°F and nights near 73°F. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kingman 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 Kingman peaks around July 15 at about 11 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 18 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 11 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highExtremeVery highModerateJul 15UV 11Dec 18UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb4Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr7High
May8Very high
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep9Very high
Oct6High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Kingman

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 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 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)
Jan20
Feb40
Mar50
Apr6.52.5
May85
Jun8.56
Jul8.56.5
Aug86
Sep74.5
Oct5.50
Nov2.50
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Kingman is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 3 to November 18 (261 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 390%Nov 1890%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan6631
Feb8128
Mar953
Apr990
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov9013
Dec6431

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. Kingman banks about 5,310 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°F·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar110
Apr309
May611
Jun875
Jul1,063
Aug1,025
Sep782
Oct450
Nov85
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.

Kingman receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.0 and 8.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Mar 17 to Sep 26. The brightest month is June, averaging about 8.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.0 kWh/m² — roughly 65% less than the June peak.

012345678910JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 148.6 kWhDec 183.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.3Moderate
Feb4.3Bright
Mar5.9Bright
Apr7.3Intense
May8.2Intense
Jun8.6Intense
Jul7.8Intense
Aug7.1Intense
Sep6.2Intense
Oct5.0Bright
Nov3.7Moderate
Dec3.0Moderate

Where is Kingman?

Kingman sits at 35.2°N, 114.1°W, 3,350 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Bullhead City, 29 mi away.

Topography around Kingman

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

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Kingman has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 686 ft around an average of 3,465 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,570 ft; within 50 miles, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 7,835 ft.

The land around Kingman is covered by shrubs (42%) and grassland (22%) within 2 miles, shrubs (50%) and grassland (27%) within 10 miles, and shrubs (48%) and bare terrain (30%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
686 ft
10 miles
4,570 ft
50 miles
7,835 ft
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Bullhead City 29 mi · Lake Havasu City 51 mi · Boulder City 70 mi · Henderson 78 mi · Whitney 84 mi · Paradise 88 mi · Enterprise 88 mi · Winchester 88 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 Kingman (35.1894°, -114.053°, elevation 3,350 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).