Athens, WV Climate: Temperature by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Athens's primary NOAA station, ATHENS.
The climate verdict for Athens
Athens, West Virginia has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 52°F. July is the warmest month at 71°F and January the coldest at 33°F.
- 52°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 163 days
- frost-free growing season
Athens: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00460355 · Athens, WV 52°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 52°F
- RANK-MID #3,431
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Clintwood
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 5,208 HDD
- STN-1 USC00460355
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Clintwood, VA (+ 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 WV station list.
- Athens (this station) 52°F
- Cold Blue Canyon, CA 52°F
- Hot Clintwood, VA 52°F
- Near Bluefield Merce…, WV 52°F
- Near Jemez Springs, NM 52°F
Climate Living Index · Athens
Athens: 51/100 · grade D
Athens publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Athens, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 133 calendar days | 57/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 52.2°F · 15.3° from 67.5°F | 50/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 163 days/year | 36/100 · F |
Athens · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Athens sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Athens are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- 50th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 70%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Athens is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43°F (6°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 33°F (0°C) | N/A | 25.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 46°F (8°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 35°F (1°C) | N/A | 21.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 53°F (12°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 42°F (5°C) | N/A | 19.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 66°F (19°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 53°F (12°C) | N/A | 7.8 | 0.0 |
| May | 73°F (23°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 61°F (16°C) | N/A | 1.6 | 0.2 |
| June | 78°F (26°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 67°F (20°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| July | 82°F (28°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 71°F (22°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 1.3 |
| August | 81°F (27°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 70°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 1.1 |
| September | 75°F (24°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 63°F (17°C) | N/A | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| October | 65°F (18°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 53°F (11°C) | N/A | 6.8 | 0.0 |
| November | 57°F (14°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 44°F (7°C) | N/A | 17.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 45°F (7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 36°F (2°C) | N/A | 23.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 82°F around July 14, short of 90°F on every date, while 133 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 22°F near January 22.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 23, then returns to freezing around November 12, covering 133 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.
The widest day
November 2 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 27°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Athens.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 10
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 30
50% probability date
Growing Season
163 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,208
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
556
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WV closest to Athens 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 (52°F here).
- Ashland, OR 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Corvallis, OR 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Crescent City, CA 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Delphi, IN 52°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Athens's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Athens's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,208 annual heating degree days against 556 for cooling. Its 38.6°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Athens's frost-free season lasts about 163 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 Athens's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 38.6°F. The annual average is 52°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Athens's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Athens'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 Athens, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Athens's climate
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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 Athens's primary station: ATHENS (USC00460355). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as an incorporated place (GEOID 5403292). Match rule for Athens: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Athens 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.