Bartlett, Tennessee climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Bartlett's center at January lows of 32°F and July highs of 91°F, a yearly mean of 61.7°F and 55.5 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Olive Branch (19 miles S, 385 ft), has January lows of 31°F and July highs of 91°F.
56,708 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 49° 32°
- Feb 54° 35°
- Mar 63° 42°
- Apr 73° 51°
- May 81° 61°
- Jun 88° 69°
- Jul 91° 71°
- Aug 90° 70°
- Sep 85° 63°
- Oct 74° 51°
- Nov 62° 41°
- Dec 52° 34°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
The months above are NOAA's gridded normals at Bartlett's center.
What is each month like in Bartlett?
NOAA's grid estimates the normals every 5 km or so from the stations around each point, terrain included. It smooths between stations, so night lows at the heart of a large city can run warmer than the grid shows: at five big-city airports we compared, the grid's highs were within about 1°F of the station and its lows 1-6°F cooler. The nearest record's high and low are beside each month.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Olive Branch high | Olive Branch low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49°F | 32°F | 40.5°F | 4.17 | 50°F | 31°F |
| February | 54°F | 35°F | 44.6°F | 4.51 | 55°F | 34°F |
| March | 63°F | 42°F | 52.7°F | 5.73 | 64°F | 41°F |
| April | 73°F | 51°F | 61.7°F | 5.68 | 73°F | 50°F |
| May | 81°F | 61°F | 70.7°F | 5.55 | 82°F | 60°F |
| June | 88°F | 69°F | 78.4°F | 4.56 | 89°F | 68°F |
| July | 91°F | 71°F | 81.2°F | 4.35 | 91°F | 72°F |
| August | 90°F | 70°F | 80.0°F | 3.39 | 92°F | 70°F |
| September | 85°F | 63°F | 73.8°F | 3.60 | 85°F | 63°F |
| October | 74°F | 51°F | 62.6°F | 4.04 | 75°F | 50°F |
| November | 62°F | 41°F | 51.3°F | 4.45 | 63°F | 40°F |
| December | 52°F | 34°F | 43.2°F | 5.46 | 53°F | 34°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 16.5°C, January lows of 0°C, July highs of 33°C and 1,409 mm of precipitation a year.
Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Monthly Gridded Climate Normals 1991-2020 (nClimGrid, accession 0245564); NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 station normals. The grid cell holding the city's Census center point.
What do the station records around Bartlett say?
Each row is a NOAA station's own 1991-2020 normals, with the snow and frost dates the grid does not give. A record downhill or nearer the coast than the city can run warmer, one uphill cooler: compare the elevations.
| Record | Where | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olive Branch | 19 mi S | 385 ft | 61.8°F | 31°F | 91°F | 59.2 | 2 | March 26 |
| Germantown4 mi SE | 12 mi S | 320 ft | 62.2°F | 31°F | 92°F | 55.2 | 2 | March 22 |
| Collierville | 14 mi SE | 300 ft | 61.1°F | 29°F | 91°F | 57.0 | 1 | March 29 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals; place center and population: Census Bureau 2024. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
How much snow, how late a frost, what zone and how much sun in Bartlett?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Olive Branch (19 miles S, 385 ft). It gets 2 inches of snow in a normal year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 26 in half of years and the first autumn frost before November 6.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bartlett in zone 8a across its 3 ZIP code areas.
Over a year 77% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (4.5 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); June is the sunniest month (82%) and February the cloudiest (65%).
Olive Branch's page has its months, frost probabilities, records by month and recent years. NOAA's grid has monthly figures only, so there are no day-by-day month pages for Bartlett; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USC00226527; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; sunshine: NASA POWER.
How does the climate vary across Bartlett, ZIP code by ZIP code?
3 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Bartlett. On NOAA's grid 38134 is the warmest (61.9°F a year) and 38133 the coolest (61.7°F), so the city is nearly uniform. Each row also names the nearest station record and its frost dates.
| ZIP code | Zone | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Nearest record | Last frost | First frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38133 | 8a | 61.7°F | 32°F | 91°F | 55.5 | Germantown (10 mi) | March 22 | November 7 |
| 38134 | 8a | 61.9°F | 32°F | 91°F | 55.6 | Germantown (10 mi) | March 22 | November 7 |
| 38135 | 8a | 61.8°F | 32°F | 91°F | 55.5 | Germantown (13 mi) | March 22 | November 7 |
Source: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file and ZCTA centers; NOAA NCEI gridded and station normals, 1991-2020. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) is in the city; its figures are the grid cell at its center; frost dates are the nearest record's medians of 32°F.