Albany, Georgia climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records

What is the weather like in Albany each month?

July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 93°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 39°F. The most precipitation falls in July (5.12 in), the least in October (2.30 in).

Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for this station. Albany's own co-op station Albany (3 mi SE) does: 0 inches of snow in a normal year (see the other stations below).

When is the best weather to visit Albany?

Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in February, March, April, October and November. Of those, October has the fewest days with rain (7).

That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.

When is the last frost in Albany?

In Albany, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 8 in half of years and after March 27 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 21 in half of years and before November 5 in one year in ten.

Last spring frost, half of years after

March 81 year in 10 after March 27; 9 in 10 after February 13

First autumn frost, half of years before

November 211 year in 10 before November 5; 9 in 10 before December 11

NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 260 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 294 days.

A hard freeze (28°F) comes after February 19 in half of springs and before December 5 in half of autumns.

The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Albany in zones 8b to 9a across its 3 ZIP code areas (9a in 31705, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Albany's NOAA station is in zone 8b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 20°F (20 complete years); the map interpolates between stations and terrain, so the station and the ZIP area can differ by half a zone.

Frost dates for every NOAA station in Georgia · Frost dates by ZIP code

What hardiness zone is each Albany ZIP code in?

The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Albany's 3 ZIP code areas run from zone 8b to 9a: 1 in 8b and 2 in 9a. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.

How hot and how cold does it get in Albany?

In a normal year in Albany, 106 days a year reach 90°F (3 of them 100°F or more), 28 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 111 days bring measurable precipitation.

Days at 90°F or more

106a normal year

Days at 100°F or more

3a normal year

Nights at 32°F or colder

28a normal year

Days that stay below freezing

fewer than 1high of 32°F or less

Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation

111a normal year

The highest temperature in Albany's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1892) is 107°F, on July 15, 1980; the lowest is 1°F, on January 22, 1985.

The wettest calendar year on that record is 1948, with 66.72 in; the snowiest season is 1972–73, with 3.0 inches.

How humid and windy is Albany, and how clear are its skies?

The summer (June-August) dew point averages 71°F. The muggiest month is July, with an average dew point of 72°F, above the 65°F at which most people call the air sticky; the driest air comes in January (39°F). February is the windiest month (6.9 mph on average), and November has the most clear or nearly clear hours (72%).

How sunny is Albany?

Over a year 80% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Albany, 4.8 kWh per square metre a day. May is the sunniest month (83%) and February the cloudiest (72%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 125th (with 50 others) in sunshine.

How much heating and cooling does Albany need?

A normal year in Albany brings 1,684 heating degree days, 69% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,692 cooling degree days, 3.0 times the median (908). Three months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 6,763 growing degree days a year above 50°F.

Has Albany been warmer than normal lately?

2025 averaged 68.1°F, 0.4°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 67.7°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.

Over 31 complete years from 1948 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 3.1°F per century (+0.17°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.

Which places near Albany share this climate record?

2 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.

• Putney, GA3,244 people · 7 mi SE
• Baconton, GA845 people · 11 mi S

What do Albany's other NOAA stations record?

One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Albany. This page uses Albany SW Georgia Regional Airport; the other differs by site and elevation:

Nearby and next

• Albany in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
• Georgia climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
• Leesburg, GA16 miles from this station, 65.8°F a year
• Newton, GA22 miles from this station, 65.9°F a year
• Camilla, GA24 miles from this station, 66.0°F a year
• Crisp County Power Dam, GA26 miles from this station, 65.8°F a year
• Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side

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