Beckley VA Hospital, WV Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Beckley VA Hospital's primary NOAA station, BECKLEY VA HOSPITAL.
The climate verdict for Beckley VA Hospital
Beckley VA Hospital, West Virginia has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 50°F. Its climate comfort score of 59/100 (moderate) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 37% of station-mapped location scores.
- 50°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 59/100
- comfort score, above 37% of station-mapped location scores
- 43.4"
- annual precipitation · 38" snow
- 157 days
- frost-free growing season
Beckley VA Hospital: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00460580 · Beckley VA Hospital, WV 50°F mean · 43.4" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 50°F
- RANK-COOL #2,607
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hacker Valley
- PRCP-MID 43.4"
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-MID 59/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,904 HDD
- STN-1 USC00460580
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Hacker Valley, WV (+ 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 VA Hosp… (this station) 50°F
- Cold Yosemite Village, CA 50°F
- Hot Raton Fltr Plt, NM 50°F
- Near Hacker Valley, WV 50°F
- Near Pietown, NM 50°F
Climate Living Index · Beckley VA Hospital
Beckley VA Hospital: 44/100 · grade D
Beckley VA Hospital publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Beckley VA Hospital, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 59/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 43.4 in · 8.4 from 35 in | 71/100 · B |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 154 calendar days | 44/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 49.7°F · 17.8° from 67.5°F | 39/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 157 days/year | 31/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 38.4 inches/year | 30/100 · F |
Beckley VA Hospital · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Beckley VA Hospital is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 29.5°F and warmest-month mean 68.6°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
- 68.6°F
- Coldest month
- 29.5°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 Beckley VA Hospital sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Beckley VA Hospital's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 38th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- 65th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 31st percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Beckley VA Hospital compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Beckley VA Hospital's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
59 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 VA Hospital's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 66 complete annual observations from 1935 to 2024, BECKLEY VA HOSPITAL warmed at a fitted rate of 0.18°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Beckley VA Hospital primary station fitted change +0.18 °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 | 40°F (4°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 3.1" | 12.8" | 25.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 43°F (6°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 2.9" | 10.0" | 23.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 51°F (11°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 3.8" | 5.2" | 22.1 | 0.0 |
| April | 63°F (17°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 3.8" | 0.8" | 10.8 | 0.0 |
| May | 71°F (22°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 4.6" | 0.0" | 2.4 | 0.0 |
| June | 76°F (24°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 4.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| July | 79°F (26°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 5.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| August | 78°F (26°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 3.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| September | 73°F (23°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 3.3" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| October | 63°F (17°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 51°F (11°C) | 2.6" | 0.5" | 7.9 | 0.0 |
| November | 53°F (12°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 2.7" | 1.2" | 20.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 43°F (6°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 3.5" | 7.9" | 25.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 79°F around July 11, short of 90°F on every date, while 154 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 19°F near January 20.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 4, then returns to freezing around November 3, covering 154 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 5, when 47% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is September 15 at 29%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 147 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 22 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 28°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Beckley VA Hospital.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 12.8"
14.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.0"
12.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.2"
13.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.8"
12.9 days with precipitation
13.8 days with precipitation
12.9 days with precipitation
12.5 days with precipitation
11.0 days with precipitation
9.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.5"
9.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.2"
10.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.9"
14.3 days with precipitation
Beckley VA Hospital 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 VA Hospital has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 39.1°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: July averages 5.4" and October 2.6". 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 VA Hospital's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 147 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 43.4" between them, or roughly 0.29 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 VA Hospital
Beckley VA Hospital averages 38.4 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 20 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: 38.4 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 20 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 9% 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 10
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 6
50% probability date
Growing Season
157 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,904
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
351
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside WV closest to Beckley VA Hospital 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 (50°F here).
- Ashland, OH 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Baring, WA 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Benton Harbor, MI 50°F · 0.0°F off
- Big Springs, NE 50°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (43.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Dannemora, NY 43.4" · 0.0" off
- Front Royal, VA 43.4" · 0.0" off
- Bland, VA 43.3" · 0.0" off
- Clinton, MO 43.3" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Beckley VA Hospital
heating led · moderate · mid swing
Beckley VA Hospital's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,904 annual heating degree days against 351 for cooling. Its 39.1°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Beckley VA Hospital's frost-free season lasts about 157 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 VA Hospital coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 30°F (-1°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Beckley VA Hospital typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Beckley VA Hospital snow peak
January
Beckley VA Hospital averages 38.4 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 VA Hospital's primary station: BECKLEY VA HOSPITAL (USC00460580). 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 VA Hospital; 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 VA Hospital 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.