Bullhead in Arizona is a popular destination for Snowbirds – a north American term for those who leave their own cold climates in winter time in search of warmer weather. Once it is warm enough to return home, they do so.

The RV park where we are staying is focused on attracting Snowbirds by offering special three and four-month price packages. All around us you can see vehicle license plates  from cold states such as Minnesota, Wisconsin, Alaska, Kansas and Alberta in Canada. We were chatting to one couple from Toronto who leave their home each year in the middle of November and return in the middle of April, likely to still see some snow on the ground!

At this time of year in Bullhead, the daily temperature reaches some 60 degrees Fahrenheit (around 15 degrees Centigrade), with cool air in the mornings and evenings. Bullhead citizens enjoy this kind of temperature for five months of the year, November through to the end of March, and then for the remaining seven months of the year the temperatures soar, and they have 100 + degrees Fahrenheit every day. It’s an arid heat, making it feel even hotter, and in July and August it can hit 120 degrees plus.

For those residents of Bullhead and other similar cities in Arizona, who are are able to do so, they do a reverse Snowbird and leave in the summer months in search of cooler air.

The view from our motor home site in Bullhead, Arizona. To accommodate for the migration of Snowbirds each year, there are RV parks everywhere!