Bayard, WV Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Bayard's primary NOAA station, BAYARD.
The climate verdict for Bayard
Water is the standout signal in Bayard, West Virginia: 52.7 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 47°F. At 44/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 10% of scores.
- 47°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 44/100
- comfort score, above 10% of station-mapped location scores
- 52.7"
- annual precipitation · 118" snow
- 143 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Bayard: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00460527 · Bayard, WV 47°F mean · 52.7" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 47°F
- RANK-COOL #1,852
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Chalk Hill
- PRCP-WET 52.7"
- SWING-MID 42°F
- COMF-LOW 44/100
- LOAD-HEAT 6,828 HDD
- STN-1 USC00460527
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Chalk Hill, PA (+ 0 °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.
- Bayard (this station) 47°F
- Cold Norwood, CO 47°F
- Hot Lakeview, OR 47°F
- Near Chalk Hill, PA 47°F
- Near Wallowa, OR 47°F
Climate Living Index · Bayard
Bayard: 27/100 · grade F
Bayard publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Bayard, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 44/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 52.7 in · 17.7 from 35 in | 37/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 167 calendar days | 34/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 46.9°F · 20.6° from 67.5°F | 27/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 143 days/year | 20/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 117.8 inches/year | 0/100 · F |
Bayard · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Bayard is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 25.5°F and warmest-month mean 67.3°F place this station in continental, no dry season, warm summer climates (Dfb). Class Dfb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 67.3°F
- Coldest month
- 25.5°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 Bayard sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Bayard's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 73%
- Among 6,861 stations, Bayard sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 14% wettest
- Bayard's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 43rd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Bayard compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Bayard's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
44 10th percentile score exceeds 10% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Above this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Above this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
- 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
Bayard's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 84 complete annual observations from 1906 to 2025, BAYARD warmed at a fitted rate of 0.08°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Bayard primary station fitted change +0.08 °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 | 35°F (2°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 4.3" | 31.9" | 28.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 38°F (3°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 4.1" | 30.1" | 25.7 | 0.0 |
| March | 47°F (8°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 4.5" | 19.6" | 25.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 59°F (15°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 4.5" | 4.4" | 15.7 | 0.0 |
| May | 68°F (20°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 5.4" | 0.0" | 4.2 | 0.0 |
| June | 76°F (24°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 5.3" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| July | 79°F (26°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 5.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| August | 78°F (26°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 4.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| September | 72°F (22°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 3.9" | 0.0" | 1.0 | 0.1 |
| October | 61°F (16°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 3.4" | 2.0" | 12.2 | 0.0 |
| November | 49°F (9°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 3.3" | 7.5" | 22.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 39°F (4°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 4.3" | 22.3" | 27.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 79°F around July 13, short of 90°F on every date, while 167 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 16°F near January 19.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 11, then returns to freezing around October 28, covering 167 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 January 20, when 66% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is September 14 at 37%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 186 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 23 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 26°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Bayard.
Where Bayard Stands Nationally
The normal water year runs well above the national norm at roughly 53 inches.
Bayard earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 31.9"
20.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 30.1"
18.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 19.6"
17.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.4"
16.0 days with precipitation
16.5 days with precipitation
14.3 days with precipitation
13.2 days with precipitation
12.9 days with precipitation
11.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.0"
12.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.5"
13.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 22.3"
18.6 days with precipitation
Bayard spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 28% of the annual total and December through February 24%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Bayard has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 41.8°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: July averages 5.5" and November 3.3". The three wettest months together take 31% 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.
How Bayard's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 185 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 52.7" between them, or roughly 0.28 inches on a typical wet day. That sits in the middle band: neither the many-light-days pattern of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes, nor the few-heavy-events pattern of the Gulf and the desert Southwest.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year and say nothing about the heaviest single storm on record.
Winter brings real snow to Bayard
Bayard averages 117.8 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 47 days that record measurable snow. That is depth accumulating on the ground, which is why it can exceed the annual precipitation figure: precipitation counts the liquid the snow melts down to, and fresh snow is mostly air.
- Annual snowfall: 117.8 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 47 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 22% of the year's precipitation.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. The ten-to-one ratio is a convention, not a measurement: real ratios vary with temperature, so treat the share as an order of magnitude rather than an exact split.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 3
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 13
50% probability date
Growing Season
143 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,828
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
271
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WV closest to Bayard 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 (47°F here).
- Bath, NY 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Battle Creek, IA 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Bellevue, ID 47°F · 0.0°F off
- Canton, PA 47°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (52.7" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Avon Park, FL 52.7" · 0.0" off
- Stayton, OR 52.7" · 0.0" off
- Summerville, SC 52.7" · 0.0" off
- Jasper, FL 52.6" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Bayard
heating led · wet · mid swing
Bayard's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,828 annual heating degree days against 271 for cooling. Its 41.8°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 143 days are frost-free in a normal year. That short interval is consistent with the cold-season signal, but the measure does not predict the exact first or last freeze in any one year.
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1. Bayard coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 26°F (-4°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Bayard typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Bayard snow peak
January
Bayard averages 117.8 inches of snow a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals.
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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 Bayard's primary station: BAYARD (USC00460527). 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 5404924). Match rule for Bayard: 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 Bayard 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.