Asheville Rgnl, NC Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Asheville Rgnl's primary NOAA station, ASHEVILLE RGNL AP.
The climate verdict for Asheville Rgnl
Water is the standout signal in Asheville Rgnl, North Carolina: 49.6 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 57°F. It scores 78/100 for climate comfort (good), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 72% of them.
- 57°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 78/100
- comfort score, above 72% of station-mapped location scores
- 49.6"
- annual precipitation · 10" snow
- 202 days
- frost-free growing season
Asheville Rgnl: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00003812 · Asheville Rgnl, NC 57°F mean · 49.6" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 57°F
- RANK-UPPER #4,597
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Helen
- PRCP-MID 49.6"
- SWING-MID 36°F
- COMF-TOP 78/100
- LOAD-HEAT 3,841 HDD
- STN-1 USW00003812
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Helen, GA (+ 0.1 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every NC station list.
- Asheville Rgnl (this station) 57°F
- Cold Palomar Mtn Obsy, CA 57°F
- Hot Sewanee, TN 57°F
- Near Helen, GA 57°F
- Near Cleveland, GA 57°F
Climate Living Index · Asheville Rgnl
Asheville Rgnl: 64/100 · grade C
Asheville Rgnl publishes all six Living Index dimensions from NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals · NOAA hourly normals.
PlainClimate-derived for Asheville Rgnl, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 78/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 72 calendar days | 85/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 57.3°F · 10.2° from 67.5°F | 67/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 202 days/year | 66/100 · C |
| Snowfall burden | 10.3 inches/year | 63/100 · C |
| Precipitation balance | 49.6 in · 14.6 from 35 in | 49/100 · D |
| Summer moisture balance | 63.7°F mean dew point | 41/100 · D |
Asheville Rgnl · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Asheville Rgnl is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfa
Coldest-month mean 38.7°F and warmest-month mean 75.1°F place this station in temperate, no dry season, hot summer climates (Cfa). Class Cfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Cfa
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 75.1°F
- Coldest month
- 38.7°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · heating-led station
Where Asheville Rgnl sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Asheville Rgnl's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 67th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 20% wettest
- Asheville Rgnl's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 79%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Asheville Rgnl is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Asheville Rgnl compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Asheville Rgnl's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
78 Top 28% score exceeds 72% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores
- 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). This entry sits in this band.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Asheville Rgnl's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 121 complete annual observations from 1903 to 2025, ASHEVILLE RGNL AP warmed at a fitted rate of 0.19°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Asheville Rgnl primary station fitted change +0.19 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49°F (9°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 4.1" | 3.6" | 21.6 | 0.0 |
| February | 53°F (12°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 3.5" | 1.9" | 17.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 60°F (15°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 3.8" | 1.9" | 11.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 69°F (21°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 4.2" | 0.2" | 2.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 76°F (25°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 4.1" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| June | 83°F (28°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 4.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| July | 85°F (30°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 4.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 4.1 |
| August | 84°F (29°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 5.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.5 |
| September | 79°F (26°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 4.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| October | 70°F (21°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 3.4" | 0.0" | 2.4 | 0.1 |
| November | 60°F (15°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 3.7" | 0.2" | 13.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 52°F (11°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 4.2" | 2.5" | 19.2 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 86°F around July 10, short of 90°F on every date, while 72 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 28°F near January 14.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into February 19, then returns to freezing around December 10, covering 72 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is June 27, when 45% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is October 17 at 26%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 131 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 18 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 25°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Asheville Rgnl.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 3.6"
10.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.9"
9.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.9"
11.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
10.6 days with precipitation
11.5 days with precipitation
13.4 days with precipitation
13.9 days with precipitation
13.1 days with precipitation
9.2 days with precipitation
7.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
8.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.5"
10.0 days with precipitation
Asheville Rgnl spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 29% of the annual total and December through February 24%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Asheville Rgnl has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 36.4°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: August averages 5.0" and October 3.4". The three wettest months together take 29% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
When it rains in Asheville Rgnl, it arrives in quantity
49.6" of precipitation falls across only about 131 wet days here, averaging 0.38 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 131 a year, 36% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.38 inches
- Most wet days
- July, about 14
- Fewest wet days
- October, about 8
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Snow reaches Asheville Rgnl, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 10.3 inches of snow a year here, most likely in January. That is a real but marginal amount: enough that snow is part of the local record, not enough to define the winter.
A figure in this range usually reflects a handful of events that melt quickly rather than a season of accumulation; about 6 days a year record any measurable snow at all.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. An average across thirty years can smooth away a single heavy winter, so a small annual figure does not mean a significant snowfall is impossible.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 28
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 9
50% probability date
Growing Season
202 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,841
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,049
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Humidity & Wind
Monthly averages from hourly observations
| Month | Humidity | Wind (mph) | Clear Sky % | Overcast % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 63% | 8.0 | 52% | 29% |
| February | 62% | 8.5 | 47% | 32% |
| March | 61% | 7.9 | 49% | 29% |
| April | 66% | 6.8 | 47% | 23% |
| May | 73% | 5.3 | 43% | 21% |
| June | 75% | 4.7 | 44% | 17% |
| July | 78% | 4.5 | 43% | 18% |
| August | 78% | 4.0 | 42% | 23% |
| September | 77% | 4.9 | 49% | 24% |
| October | 70% | 6.2 | 55% | 24% |
| November | 68% | 7.2 | 55% | 26% |
| December | 69% | 8.0 | 49% | 31% |
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NC closest to Asheville Rgnl on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (57°F here).
- Ash Grove, MO 57°F · 0.0°F off
- Bentonville, AR 57°F · 0.0°F off
- Bishop, CA 57°F · 0.0°F off
- Boonville, IN 57°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (49.6" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Walpole, MA 49.6" · 0.0" off
- El Campo, TX 49.6" · 0.0" off
- Fitchburg, MA 49.6" · 0.0" off
- Summer Shade, KY 49.6" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Asheville Rgnl's climate pattern fits together
heating led · wet · mid swing
Asheville Rgnl's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 3,841 annual heating degree days against 1,049 for cooling. Its 36.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Asheville Rgnl's frost-free season lasts about 202 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Asheville Rgnl's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 36.4°F. The annual average is 57°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Alongside its heating load, Asheville Rgnl carries 49.6 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Annual snowfall totals 10.3 inches. That distinction matters because a wet annual total can arrive as rain, snow, or a mixture at different times.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Asheville Rgnl's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Asheville Rgnl, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Asheville Rgnl's primary station: ASHEVILLE RGNL AP (USW00003812). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Asheville Rgnl; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Asheville Rgnl comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.