Kansas weather by city
VSWeather covers 65 cities and towns in Kansas, from Wichita (population 396,488) down to Louisburg (population 5,034). Liberal is the state's sunniest covered city at 274 sunny days a year. Colby is its snowiest at 27 in of snow in an average winter. Every figure is a 30 year average for 1991 to 2020.
Kansas climate standouts
The top 10 covered cities in the state for each measure.
Sunniest
- 1Liberal 274 sunny days
- 2Ulysses 273 sunny days
- 3Garden City 267 sunny days
- 4Dodge City 262 sunny days
- 5Colby 259 sunny days
- 6Hays 253 sunny days
- 7Pratt 253 sunny days
- 8Great Bend 250 sunny days
- 9Wellington 248 sunny days
- 10Hutchinson 247 sunny days
Snowiest
- 1Colby 27 in of snow
- 2Dodge City 19 in of snow
- 3Leavenworth 19 in of snow
- 4Concordia 19 in of snow
- 5Lansing 18 in of snow
- 6Ulysses 18 in of snow
- 7Manhattan 18 in of snow
- 8Bonner Springs 17 in of snow
- 9Atchison 17 in of snow
- 10Basehor 17 in of snow
Rainiest
- 1Paola 109 wet days a year
- 2Louisburg 109 wet days a year
- 3Spring Hill 108 wet days a year
- 4Fort Scott 108 wet days a year
- 5Pittsburg 107 wet days a year
- 6Overland Park 107 wet days a year
- 7Kansas City 107 wet days a year
- 8Olathe 107 wet days a year
- 9Shawnee 107 wet days a year
- 10Lenexa 107 wet days a year
Warmest
- 1Arkansas City 58 °F average
- 2Coffeyville 58 °F average
- 3Chanute 58 °F average
- 4Independence 58 °F average
- 5Pittsburg 58 °F average
- 6Abilene 58 °F average
- 7Wichita 57 °F average
- 8Valley Center 57 °F average
- 9Maize 57 °F average
- 10Goddard 57 °F average
Popular Kansas comparisons
The state's biggest cities, head to head.
All covered Kansas cities and towns
Every place links to its full climate profile.
- Abilene
- Andover
- Arkansas City
- Atchison
- Augusta
- Basehor
- Bel Aire
- Bonner Springs
- Chanute
- Coffeyville
- Colby
- Concordia
- De Soto
- Derby
- Dodge City
- El Dorado
- Emporia
- Eudora
- Fort Riley
- Fort Scott
- Garden City
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Great Bend
- Hays
- Haysville
- Hutchinson
- Independence
- Iola
- Junction City
- Kansas City
- Lansing
- Lawrence
- Leavenworth
- Leawood
- Lenexa
- Liberal
- Louisburg
- Maize
- Manhattan
- McPherson
- Merriam
- Mission
- Mulvane
- Newton
- Olathe
- Ottawa
- Overland Park
- Paola
- Park City
- Parsons
- Pittsburg
- Prairie Village
- Pratt
- Roeland Park
- Salina
- Shawnee
- Spring Hill
- Tonganoxie
- Topeka
- Ulysses
- Valley Center
- Wellington
- Wichita
- Winfield
National rankings
See how Kansas cities place among the sunniest cities and snowiest cities and more in the US city weather rankings.
About this data
Figures are 30 year averages for 1991 to 2020, computed from daily climate history at each city's own coordinates. Sunny days count clear plus partly cloudy days; snowfall is anchored to NOAA station measurements. Methods and sources are described on the data sources page.
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information (ERA5, ERA5-Land).