Climate and average weather in Lewiston Orchards

In Lewiston Orchards, the summers are hot, dry, and clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: late May to mid July

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Lewiston Orchards typically varies from 25°F to 85°F, and is rarely below 9°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 times of year to visit Lewiston Orchards for warm-weather activities are from late May to mid July and mid August to early October.

Hottest
Aug
85°
Coldest
Dec
25°
Wettest
Dec
2.7 in
Driest
Jul
0.4 in
Rain / yr
20.3 in
100 wet days
Daylight
8.4–15.6 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,440 ft
46.4°N
Clearest
Jul
27% cloud

Lewiston Orchards is human settlement in Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States of America.

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

Lewiston Orchards 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 July.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Lewiston Orchards, 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 20 to September 17, with daily high temperatures above 75°F. The hottest month of the year in Lewiston Orchards is August, with an average high of 85°F and low of 59°F.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from November 16 to February 27, with daily high temperatures below 46°F. The coldest month of the year in Lewiston Orchards is December, with an average low of 25°F and high of 37°F.

Days typically run about 19°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)
Jan3825
Feb4328
Mar5233
Apr5939
May6746
Jun7452
Jul8559
Aug8559
Sep7551
Oct6141
Nov4632
Dec3725

How hot and cold Lewiston Orchards 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 18°F (around January 1), with roughly 156 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)
Jan38381925
Feb43432228
Mar52522833
Apr59593539
May67674346
Jun74745252
Jul85855959
Aug85855959
Sep75755151
Oct61613841
Nov46462732
Dec37371925

Average hourly temperature in Lewiston Orchards

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 85°F, and coldest before dawn in December, near 25°F.

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

Lewiston Orchards 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
Jan38° / 25°2.412.56.48.80.0
Feb43° / 28°2.010.54.4100.5
Mar52° / 33°2.411.82.511.62.5
Apr59° / 39°2.010.20.413.34.4
May67° / 46°1.98.7014.76.3
Jun74° / 52°1.25.7015.57.5
Jul85° / 59°0.42015.26.8
Aug85° / 59°0.420146.8
Sep75° / 51°0.73.6012.48.1
Oct61° / 41°1.78.10.110.75.3
Nov46° / 32°2.511.92.89.21.2
Dec37° / 25°2.713.37.48.50.0

Chance of rain

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

Lewiston Orchards gets about 20.3 in of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.2 months, from around Oct 21 to May 27, peaking in December at about 44% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 31.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 2.7 in over about 13 wet days; July is the driest, with 0.4 in. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 12 · 44%Jul 31 · 5%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4113
Feb3811
Mar3812
Apr3410
May289
Jun196
Jul72
Aug62
Sep124
Oct258
Nov3912
Dec4313

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Lewiston Orchards collects about 20.3 in of rain across 100 wet days — roughly 1.7 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 2.7 in, while July is the driest at just 0.4 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

00.511.522.533.5JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2.42.02.42.01.91.20.40.40.71.72.52.7
Rainfall (in)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2.4136
Feb2.0114
Mar2.4123
Apr2.0100
May1.990
Jun1.260
Jul0.420
Aug0.420
Sep0.740
Oct1.780
Nov2.5123
Dec2.7137

Snow in Lewiston Orchards

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.

Lewiston Orchards averages about 24 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 28 to Apr 11 — about 5.5 months.

December is snowiest, with roughly 7 days of snow and an estimated 10 in of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 34 in of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonDec 27
Snow daysSnowfall (in)
Jan611
Feb47
Mar32
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov33
Dec710

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Lewiston Orchards, 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 10 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around October 22. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 83% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 23 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around June 9. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 71% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 26 · 87%Dec 17 · 28%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3268
Feb3763
Mar3466
Apr3862
May4654
Jun5743
Jul8317
Aug8218
Sep7030
Oct5545
Nov3664
Dec2971

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 13, brings about 15 h 36 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 8 h 24 min — a swing of roughly 7 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.87:344:21
Feb10.07:025:03
Mar11.66:105:45
Apr13.35:086:28
May14.74:217:07
Jun15.54:017:36
Jul15.24:167:31
Aug14.04:526:52
Sep12.45:325:52
Oct10.76:134:52
Nov9.26:584:08
Dec8.57:323:57

Sunny days

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

Lewiston Orchards averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 22 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.2 months, from around Jun 15 to Oct 20. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is December, down near 6 sunny days — about 73% fewer than the July peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2822 daysDec 175 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan6Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May9Mixed
Jun11Mixed
Jul21Bright
Aug21Bright
Sep17Bright
Oct12Mixed
Nov7Gloomy
Dec6Gloomy

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 Lewiston Orchards, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, 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
Apr10000
May9820
Jun9461
Jul9171
Aug9640
Sep9910
Oct10000
Nov10000
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 Lewiston Orchards is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 mphcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 2 · 6 mphAug 6 · 5 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Lewiston Orchards

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early June, Lewiston Orchards 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 Lewiston Orchards for general outdoor tourist activities run from late May to mid July and again from mid August to early October, with a peak score in the second week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 10 · 8.2

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
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.6poor
Mar2.5poor
Apr4.4fair
May6.3good
Jun7.5good
Jul6.8good
Aug6.8good
Sep8.0ideal
Oct5.3fair
Nov1.2poor
Dec0.0poor

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 Lewiston Orchards for hot-weather activities is from late June to mid September, with a peak score in the third week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 18 · 8.7

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 Lewiston Orchards, 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 85°F), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near 37°F), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Lewiston Orchards sees daytime highs around 85°F and nights near 59°F. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Lewiston Orchards 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 Lewiston Orchards peaks around July 15 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 15UV 9Dec 16UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr5Moderate
May7High
Jun7High
Jul9Very high
Aug6High
Sep5Moderate
Oct4Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Lewiston Orchards

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 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
Mar3.50
Apr5.50
May7.53.5
Jun83.5
Jul8.55
Aug6.50
Sep50
Oct2.50
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Lewiston Orchards 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 Lewiston Orchards is worst in August — around 27 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.6× the cleanest month (December, 8 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodModerateGoodAug 1627 µg/m³Dec 238 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan8Good
Feb9Good
Mar14Moderate
Apr15Moderate
May11Good
Jun10Good
Jul25Moderate
Aug27Moderate
Sep25Moderate
Oct18Moderate
Nov17Moderate
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Lewiston Orchards typically lasts about 249 days, from around March 11 to November 14 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 18 to October 19.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 1150%Apr 1890%Oct 1990%Nov 1450%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2231
Feb2828
Mar5731
Apr8818
May980
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct9012
Nov4830
Dec2031

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. Lewiston Orchards banks about 2,432 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
Apr10
May200
Jun391
Jul682
Aug682
Sep399
Oct67
Nov0
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.

Lewiston Orchards receives about 4.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.2 and 7.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Mar 29 to Sep 24. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.3 kWh/m² — roughly 83% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 127.7 kWhDec 161.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.5Dim
Feb2.5Moderate
Mar3.8Moderate
Apr5.3Bright
May6.5Intense
Jun7.1Intense
Jul7.7Intense
Aug6.7Intense
Sep4.9Bright
Oct3.0Moderate
Nov1.6Dim
Dec1.3Dim

Where is Lewiston Orchards?

Lewiston Orchards sits at 46.4°N, 117.0°W, 1,440 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Lewiston, 3.1 mi away.

Topography around Lewiston Orchards

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

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Lewiston Orchards has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 728 ft around an average of 1,339 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,316 ft; within 50 miles, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 5,728 ft.

The land around Lewiston Orchards is covered by grassland (38%) and artificial surfaces (24%) within 2 miles, grassland (53%) and cropland (35%) within 10 miles, and grassland (39%), trees (31%) and cropland (29%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
728 ft
10 miles
2,316 ft
50 miles
5,728 ft
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Lewiston 3.1 mi · Moscow 24 mi · Pullman 26 mi · Walla Walla 69 mi · Opportunity 89 mi · Coeur d'Alene 90 mi · Spokane Valley 90 mi · Spokane 91 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 Lewiston Orchards (46.3804°, -116.9754°, elevation 1,440 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).