Historical weather data, all-time temperature records, and monthly climate averages for Clive, IA. Explore typical weather conditions by week for trip planning, and see how today compares to the historical record.
April 4th in Clive runs the full gamut — 80 years of data show an average high of just 55° with a 6% chance of snow still lurking. But the date has pulled off a 83° scorcher as recently as 2021, and bottomed out at a brutal 14° back in 2018, so don't put away the layers just yet.
Clive's weather has real teeth on both ends: an all-time high of 108° in August 1983 and a bone-chilling -26° in February 1996 tell you this is a place that means business. A single day in August 1975 dropped 6.18 inches of rain, while January 1996 buried the area under 13.7 inches of snow — both in the same record-setting winter year.
Summer is the main event in Clive, with highs hitting 86-87° in mid-July and the wettest stretch arriving in mid-June with around 1.2 inches per week. Winters are genuinely cold — average highs sit at just 29-30° in early January — so the sweet spots for comfortable travel are May (73°) and September (77°).