Montana has a long growing season
Montana has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. A typical July afternoon reaches 82°, a January night drops to 7°, and about 37 inches of snow falls in a normal winter. Normal November highs come to 42°, and lows to 26°.
Getting the latest forecast from the National Weather Service…
What stands out about Montana’s weather
Read from 30 years of NOAA records. Each one opens the full story on the Climate page.
Where today sits in Montana’s year
Typical highs and lows month by month, from 30 years of NOAA records.
Weather talk
Road reports, first frosts and storm memories from neighbors in Montana.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Forecast, conditions and alerts: National Weather Service. Climate: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020 and 1901–2000. Temperatures and rainfall come from NOAA’s gridded normals for Montana itself (about a 3-mile square). Snow, frost dates and day counts: the NOAA station at Alma Dam 4, WI (16 mi). Sunrise and sunset are calculated from the town’s position. Normals are 30-year averages, not a forecast.