Blue Springs, Missouri climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Blue Springs's center at January lows of 20°F and July highs of 88°F, a yearly mean of 54.7°F and 41.2 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Lee's Summit (7 miles SW, 997 ft), has January lows of 22°F and July highs of 88°F.
61,246 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 38° 20°
- Feb 44° 25°
- Mar 55° 34°
- Apr 65° 44°
- May 75° 54°
- Jun 84° 64°
- Jul 88° 68°
- Aug 86° 66°
- Sep 79° 57°
- Oct 67° 45°
- Nov 54° 34°
- Dec 42° 25°
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 Blue Springs's center.
What is each month like in Blue Springs?
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. | Lee's Summit high | Lee's Summit low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38°F | 20°F | 29.2°F | 1.32 | 39°F | 22°F |
| February | 44°F | 25°F | 34.2°F | 1.64 | 44°F | 26°F |
| March | 55°F | 34°F | 44.6°F | 2.60 | 55°F | 35°F |
| April | 65°F | 44°F | 54.5°F | 4.23 | 66°F | 46°F |
| May | 75°F | 54°F | 64.4°F | 5.55 | 75°F | 56°F |
| June | 84°F | 64°F | 73.8°F | 5.11 | 84°F | 65°F |
| July | 88°F | 68°F | 77.8°F | 4.83 | 88°F | 70°F |
| August | 86°F | 66°F | 76.1°F | 4.32 | 87°F | 68°F |
| September | 79°F | 57°F | 68.2°F | 4.09 | 79°F | 59°F |
| October | 67°F | 45°F | 56.3°F | 3.36 | 67°F | 47°F |
| November | 54°F | 34°F | 44.0°F | 2.33 | 54°F | 36°F |
| December | 42°F | 25°F | 33.4°F | 1.84 | 43°F | 26°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 12.6°C, January lows of −7°C, July highs of 31°C and 1,047 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 Blue Springs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lee's SummitLees Summit Municipal Airport | 7 mi SW | 997 ft | 55.7°F | 22°F | 88°F | 38.3 | – | April 7 |
| Independence | 7 mi NW | 985 ft | 54.0°F | 19°F | 87°F | 44.7 | 13 | April 10 |
| Lees Summit Reed Wildlife Refuge | 10 mi S | 1,000 ft | 53.0°F | 17°F | 86°F | – | – | April 13 |
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 Blue Springs?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Lee's Summit (7 miles SW, 997 ft). NOAA publishes no snowfall normal for it; the nearest record that has one, Independence (7 miles NW), gets 13 inches a year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 7 in half of years and the first autumn frost before October 29.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Blue Springs in zone 6b across its 2 ZIP code areas.
Over a year 76% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (4.3 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); July is the sunniest month (83%) and March the cloudiest (69%).
Lee's Summit'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 Blue Springs; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USW00053879; 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 Blue Springs, ZIP code by ZIP code?
2 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Blue Springs. On NOAA's grid 64015 is the warmest (54.8°F a year) and 64014 the coolest (54.7°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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64014 | 6b | 54.7°F | 20°F | 88°F | 41.2 | Lee's Summit (7 mi) | April 7 | October 29 |
| 64015 | 6b | 54.8°F | 20°F | 88°F | 41.1 | Independence (5 mi) | April 10 | October 27 |
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.