Climate and average weather in Rexburg

In Rexburg, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid August to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Rexburg typically varies from 15°F to 85°F, and is rarely below -4°F or above 95°F. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Rexburg for warm-weather activities are from late May to mid July and mid August to early October.

Hottest
Jul
85°
Coldest
Jan
15°
Wettest
May
2.4 in
Driest
Jul
0.5 in
Rain / yr
17.5 in
95 wet days
Daylight
8.7–15.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
4,865 ft
43.8°N
Clearest
Jul
31% cloud

Rexburg is city in and county seat of Madison County, Idaho, United States.

Density
1,092/km²
people per km²
Founded
1883

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

Rexburg 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 mid August to early October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.3 months, from June 10 to September 16, with daily high temperatures above 72°F. The hottest month of the year in Rexburg is July, with an average high of 85°F and low of 55°F.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 19 to March 4, with daily high temperatures below 40°F. The coldest month of the year in Rexburg is January, with an average low of 15°F and high of 30°F.

Days typically run about 22°F warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 30°F) in July.

20°40°60°80°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan3015
Feb3519
Mar4527
Apr5533
May6541
Jun7548
Jul8555
Aug8454
Sep7346
Oct5836
Nov4224
Dec3115

How hot and cold Rexburg 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 5°F (around December 26), with roughly 203 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 32°F) 99 of them bitterly cold — worst in December.

20°40°60°80°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°F)Air high (°F)Feels-like low (°F)Air low (°F)
Jan3030715
Feb35351119
Mar45452027
Apr55552733
May65653741
Jun75754648
Jul85855555
Aug84845454
Sep73734346
Oct58583136
Nov42421724
Dec3031615

Average hourly temperature in Rexburg

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 85°F, and coldest before dawn in January, near 15°F.

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

Rexburg 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
Jan30° / 15°1.710.711.79.10.0
Feb35° / 19°1.38.78.210.20.0
Mar45° / 27°1.69.74.911.61.1
Apr55° / 33°2.111.93.113.23.4
May65° / 41°2.410.30.614.55.8
Jun75° / 48°1.56.70.115.27.4
Jul85° / 55°0.53014.96.4
Aug84° / 54°0.63.4013.86.9
Sep73° / 46°1.14.30.112.37.9
Oct58° / 36°1.57.11.210.84.7
Nov42° / 24°1.48.76.59.50.6
Dec31° / 15°1.810.3118.80.0

Chance of rain

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

Rexburg gets about 17.5 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 7.1 months, from around Nov 9 to Jun 12, peaking in April at about 40% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 20.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 2.4 in over about 10 wet days; July is the driest, with 0.5 in. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 12 · 40%Jul 20 · 9%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3411
Feb319
Mar3210
Apr3912
May3310
Jun237
Jul103
Aug113
Sep154
Oct227
Nov299
Dec3310

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Rexburg collects about 17.5 in of rain across 95 wet days — roughly 1.5 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 2.4 in, while July is the driest at just 0.5 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

00.511.522.53JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1.71.31.62.12.41.50.50.61.11.51.41.8
Rainfall (in)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1.71112
Feb1.398
Mar1.6105
Apr2.1123
May2.4101
Jun1.570
Jul0.530
Aug0.630
Sep1.140
Oct1.571
Nov1.497
Dec1.81011

Snow in Rexburg

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.

Rexburg averages about 47 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 3 to May 18 — about 7.5 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 11 days of snow and an estimated 18 in of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 69 in of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 13
Snow daysSnowfall (in)
Jan1218
Feb813
Mar56
Apr34
May11
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct11
Nov79
Dec1116

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Rexburg, 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 7 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around October 29. 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 30 and lasts for 7.2 months, ending around June 6. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 66% 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 16 · 84%Jan 10 · 33%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3466
Feb3862
Mar3961
Apr3862
May4555
Jun6436
Jul8317
Aug8317
Sep7228
Oct6040
Nov4456
Dec3466

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 16, brings about 15 h 18 min of light; the shortest, around December 15, only 8 h 42 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.18:045:09
Feb10.27:365:48
Mar11.66:486:26
Apr13.25:517:04
May14.55:077:39
Jun15.24:508:05
Jul14.95:048:02
Aug13.85:367:26
Sep12.36:136:30
Oct10.86:495:35
Nov9.57:304:55
Dec8.88:014:46

Sunny days

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

Rexburg averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.7 months, from around Jun 12 to Nov 1. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is April, down near 6 sunny days — about 68% fewer than the July peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 2021 daysApr 86 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May8Gloomy
Jun13Mixed
Jul20Bright
Aug20Bright
Sep17Bright
Oct14Mixed
Nov9Mixed
Dec7Gloomy

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 Rexburg, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in July, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul991
Aug991
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

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 Rexburg is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 mphcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 5 · 7 mphJan 24 · 5 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Rexburg

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late September, Rexburg 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 times of year to visit Rexburg 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 8 · 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
Feb0.0poor
Mar1.2poor
Apr3.4poor
May5.8good
Jun7.3good
Jul6.4good
Aug6.9good
Sep7.8ideal
Oct4.7fair
Nov0.7poor
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 Rexburg 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 15 · 8.5

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 Rexburg, 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 85°F), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 30°F), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Rexburg sees daytime highs around 85°F and nights near 55°F. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 3 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Rexburg 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 Rexburg peaks around July 13 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 2 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateVery highHighModerateLowJul 13UV 9Jan 1UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr5Moderate
May7Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep6High
Oct4Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Rexburg

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 5.5 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
Mar50
Apr5.50
May7.53.5
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54
Sep60
Oct40
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Rexburg 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 Rexburg is worst in August — around 20 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.1× the cleanest month (December, 7 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodAug 1420 µg/m³Dec 197 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan8Good
Feb9Good
Mar10Good
Apr10Good
May10Good
Jun9Good
Jul17Moderate
Aug20Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct9Good
Nov9Good
Dec7Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

The growing season in Rexburg typically lasts about 199 days, from around April 11 to October 26 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 15 to September 29.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 610%Apr 1150%May 1590%Sep 2990%Oct 2650%Dec 810%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan831
Feb1228
Mar2631
Apr5630
May8914
Jun990
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep971
Oct6731
Nov2430
Dec831

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. Rexburg banks about 1,980 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,5002,0002,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°F·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May100
Jun350
Jul633
Aug594
Sep288
Oct15
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.

Rexburg receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.6 and 8.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 23 to Sep 24. The brightest month is July, averaging about 7.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.7 kWh/m² — roughly 79% less than the July peak.

0123456789JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 38.1 kWhDec 151.6 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.0Dim
Feb3.1Moderate
Mar4.5Bright
Apr5.8Bright
May6.8Intense
Jun7.7Intense
Jul8.0Intense
Aug7.0Intense
Sep5.3Bright
Oct3.5Moderate
Nov2.2Moderate
Dec1.6Dim

Where is Rexburg?

Rexburg sits at 43.8°N, 111.8°W, 4,865 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Idaho Falls, 28 mi away.

Topography around Rexburg

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

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Rexburg has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 394 ft around an average of 4,911 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 955 ft; within 50 miles, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 8,753 ft.

The land around Rexburg is covered by cropland (33%), artificial surfaces (27%) and grassland (24%) within 2 miles, cropland (63%) and grassland (25%) within 10 miles, and grassland (46%) and trees (29%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
394 ft
10 miles
955 ft
50 miles
8,753 ft
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Idaho Falls 28 mi · Pocatello 74 mi · Conda 77 mi · Bozeman 133 mi · Logan 144 mi · Butte 155 mi · Twin Falls 160 mi · Brigham City 160 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 Rexburg (43.826°, -111.7897°, elevation 4,865 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).