Beckley Raleigh County, WV 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 Beckley Raleigh County's primary NOAA station, BECKLEY RALEIGH CO AP.
The climate verdict for Beckley Raleigh County
Beckley Raleigh County, West Virginia has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 53°F. Its climate comfort score of 58/100 (moderate) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 37% of station-mapped location scores.
- 53°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 58/100
- comfort score, above 37% of station-mapped location scores
- 43.5"
- annual precipitation · 56" snow
- 182 days
- frost-free growing season
Beckley Raleigh County: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00003872 · Beckley Raleigh County, WV 53°F mean · 43.5" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 53°F
- RANK-MID #3,636
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Radford
- PRCP-MID 43.5"
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-MID 58/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,060 HDD
- STN-1 USW00003872
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Radford, VA (+ 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.
- Beckley Raleigh… (this station) 53°F
- Cold Pulaski, VA 53°F
- Hot Pendleton Dwtn, OR 53°F
- Near Radford, VA 53°F
- Near Springer, NM 53°F
Climate Living Index · Beckley Raleigh County
Beckley Raleigh County: 57/100 · grade C
Beckley Raleigh County publishes all six Living Index dimensions from NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals · NOAA hourly normals.
PlainClimate-derived for Beckley Raleigh County, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 58/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 108 calendar days | 72/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 43.5 in · 8.5 from 35 in | 70/100 · B |
| Summer moisture balance | 61.1°F mean dew point | 55/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 52.9°F · 14.6° from 67.5°F | 52/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 182 days/year | 51/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 55.9 inches/year | 18/100 · F |
Beckley Raleigh County · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Beckley Raleigh County is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfb
Coldest-month mean 32.2°F and warmest-month mean 71.6°F place this station in temperate, no dry season, warm summer climates (Cfb). Class Cfb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, no dry season, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Cfb
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 71.6°F
- Coldest month
- 32.2°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 Beckley Raleigh County sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Beckley Raleigh County's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 53rd percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 66th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 33rd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Beckley Raleigh County compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Beckley Raleigh County's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
58 37th percentile score exceeds 37% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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
Beckley Raleigh County's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 71 complete annual observations from 1953 to 2025, BECKLEY RALEIGH CO AP warmed at a fitted rate of 0.23°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Beckley Raleigh County primary station fitted change +0.23 °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 | 41°F (5°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 3.1" | 15.5" | 23.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 44°F (7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 3.1" | 15.2" | 21.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 53°F (11°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 4.0" | 8.9" | 16.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 64°F (18°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 3.6" | 1.5" | 5.6 | 0.0 |
| May | 72°F (22°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 4.7" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| June | 78°F (25°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 4.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| July | 81°F (27°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 5.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| August | 80°F (27°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 71°F (21°C) | 3.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| September | 74°F (24°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 3.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| October | 64°F (18°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 2.7" | 1.4" | 4.0 | 0.1 |
| November | 53°F (12°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 2.8" | 2.3" | 14.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 44°F (7°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 3.3" | 11.1" | 21.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 81°F around July 8, short of 90°F on every date, while 108 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 24°F near January 20.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 12, then returns to freezing around November 26, covering 108 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 March 1, when 53% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is September 13 at 32%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 161 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 22 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 22°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Beckley Raleigh County.
Where Beckley Raleigh County Stands Nationally
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 22°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Beckley Raleigh County 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: 15.5"
15.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 15.2"
14.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.9"
16.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.5"
14.1 days with precipitation
15.0 days with precipitation
13.7 days with precipitation
13.5 days with precipitation
11.5 days with precipitation
10.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.4"
10.7 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.3"
11.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.1"
14.6 days with precipitation
Beckley Raleigh County spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 30% of the annual total and December through February 22%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Beckley Raleigh County has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 39.4°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: July averages 5.0" and October 2.7". The three wettest months together take 32% 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 Beckley Raleigh County's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 161 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 43.5" between them, or roughly 0.27 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 Beckley Raleigh County
Beckley Raleigh County averages 55.9 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 33 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: 55.9 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 33 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 13% 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 21
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 22
50% probability date
Growing Season
182 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,060
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
665
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 | 67% | 8.1 | 37% | 45% |
| February | 65% | 8.4 | 37% | 44% |
| March | 60% | 8.3 | 43% | 35% |
| April | 62% | 7.6 | 42% | 28% |
| May | 73% | 6.0 | 40% | 23% |
| June | 75% | 5.4 | 44% | 15% |
| July | 78% | 4.9 | 45% | 17% |
| August | 76% | 5.1 | 51% | 17% |
| September | 75% | 6.0 | 51% | 24% |
| October | 66% | 6.7 | 50% | 31% |
| November | 67% | 7.6 | 44% | 40% |
| December | 71% | 8.0 | 37% | 49% |
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WV closest to Beckley Raleigh County 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 (53°F here).
- Chambersburg, PA 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Concordia, KS 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Langlois, OR 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Monroe City, MO 53°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (43.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Fittstown, OK 43.5" · 0.0" off
- Hagerstown, MD 43.5" · 0.0" off
- Okemah, OK 43.5" · 0.0" off
- Westfield, NY 43.5" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Beckley Raleigh County
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Beckley Raleigh County's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,060 annual heating degree days against 665 for cooling. Its 39.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Beckley Raleigh County's frost-free season lasts about 182 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Beckley Raleigh County coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 32°F (0°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Beckley Raleigh County typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Beckley Raleigh County snow peak
January
Beckley Raleigh County averages 55.9 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 Beckley Raleigh County's primary station: BECKLEY RALEIGH CO AP (USW00003872). 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 Beckley Raleigh County; 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 Beckley Raleigh County 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.