Port Orford is located at the north end of the Southern Oregon Coast ‘Banana Belt.’ Our winter storms come in on the 'Pineapple Express' from Hawaii.
Locals in Port Orford take pride in our weather and frequently joke about our 'Wind and Rain Festival; which they will say with a smile starts on 1 January and ends on 31 December each year. Personally, I love the wind, rain, and moderate 'Banana Belt' temperatures in Port Orford. However, I think anyone considering a move to this area or a vacation during the fall or winter should understand the minimum, maximum, and average rainfalls per year and per the wet-weather-season which lasts from October through March, and for the 3 months months with the heaviest rainfall which are November, December, and January.
I’ve pulled this information from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Agency records compiled for Gold Beach from the years 1890 through 2000. Now before you get too alarmed in every decade from 1890 to date there were never more than two years in the decade with rainfall in excess of 100." There were some decades in which there was only one year that had rainfall in excess of 100" and some decades in which there was not even one year that exceeded 100" in rainfall.
YEARLY RAINFALL
Min. = 38.57”
Max. = 119.26”
Avg. = 79.83”
WET-WEATHER-SEASON RAINFALL
Min. = 28.04”
Max. = 99.09”
Avg. = 65.51”
3 MONTH PERIOD NOV-JAN MONTHLY RAINFALL
NOVEMBER
Min. = 0.10”
Max.= 34.21”
Avg = 11.34”
DECEMBER
Min. = 2.21”
Max = 31.28”
Avg. = 13.10”
JANUARY
Min. = 1.01”
Max = 31.84”
Avg = 13.13”
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