Cabot, Arkansas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Cabot's normal year runs from 28°F January nights to 92°F July afternoons, with 53.3 inches of precipitation and 2 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 16.1°C, January lows of −2°C, July highs of 34°C, 1,355 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationCabot
- Station IDUSC00031102
- Location34.98°N 92.01°W
- Elevation300 ft (91 m)
- Population27,575
On October 23, the normal high in Cabot is 73°F and the normal low 45°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 24%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Cabot.
- Jan 51° 28°
- Feb 56° 31°
- Mar 65° 39°
- Apr 73° 47°
- May 81° 58°
- Jun 89° 66°
- Jul 92° 69°
- Aug 92° 68°
- Sep 86° 61°
- Oct 76° 48°
- Nov 64° 38°
- Dec 54° 31°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
What is the weather like in Cabot each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 92°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 28°F. The most precipitation falls in May (6.11 in), the least in July (3.26 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 51°F | 28°F | 39.6°F | 3.55 | 0.7 | 7 | <1 | 20 | 10 h |
| February | 56°F | 31°F | 43.3°F | 4.42 | 0.9 | 8 | <1 | 16 | 10 h 50 min |
| March | 65°F | 39°F | 51.7°F | 5.20 | 0.4 | 9 | <1 | 8 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 73°F | 47°F | 60.2°F | 5.25 | 0.0 | 9 | <1 | 1 | 13 h |
| May | 81°F | 58°F | 69.2°F | 6.11 | 0.0 | 10 | 2 | <1 | 14 h |
| June | 89°F | 66°F | 77.3°F | 3.64 | 0.0 | 7 | 12 | <1 | 14 h 30 min |
| July | 92°F | 69°F | 80.8°F | 3.26 | 0.0 | 7 | 21 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| August | 92°F | 68°F | 79.9°F | 3.82 | 0.0 | 7 | 20 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| September | 86°F | 61°F | 73.6°F | 3.67 | 0.0 | 6 | 10 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 76°F | 48°F | 61.8°F | 4.17 | 0.0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 64°F | 38°F | 50.5°F | 5.19 | 0.0 | 8 | <1 | 10 | 10 h 20 min |
| December | 54°F | 31°F | 42.3°F | 5.05 | 0.1 | 8 | <1 | 18 | 9 h 50 min |
| Year (annual) | 73°F | 49°F | 60.9°F | 53.33 | 2.1 | 92 | 66 | 74 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11°C | −2°C | 4.2°C | 90 mm | 2 cm |
| February | 13°C | −1°C | 6.3°C | 112 mm | 2 cm |
| March | 18°C | 4°C | 10.9°C | 132 mm | 1 cm |
| April | 23°C | 8°C | 15.7°C | 133 mm | 0 cm |
| May | 27°C | 14°C | 20.7°C | 155 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 31°C | 19°C | 25.2°C | 92 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 34°C | 21°C | 27.1°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 33°C | 20°C | 26.6°C | 97 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 30°C | 16°C | 23.1°C | 93 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 24°C | 9°C | 16.6°C | 106 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 18°C | 3°C | 10.3°C | 132 mm | 0 cm |
| December | 12°C | −1°C | 5.7°C | 128 mm | 0 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00031102; annual normals. Wet days: 0.01 inch or more; 90°F days and freezing nights: NOAA's day counts. Daylight: sunrise to sunset on the 15th, computed from the latitude.
When is the best weather to visit Cabot?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in April, May and October. Of those, October has the fewest days with rain (7).
That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00031102.
When is the last frost in Cabot?
In Cabot, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 4 in half of years and after April 20 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 31 in half of years and before October 18 in one year in ten.
Frost-free in half of yearsFrost in 1 to 9 years out of 10Frost most years
- Last spring frost, half of years after
- April 41 year in 10 after April 20; 9 in 10 after March 16
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- October 311 year in 10 before October 18; 9 in 10 before November 13
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 209 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 233 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 22 in half of springs and before November 8 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cabot in zone 8a in ZIP code 72023. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Cabot's NOAA station is in zone 7b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 9°F (19 complete years); the map interpolates between stations and terrain, so the station and the ZIP area can differ by half a zone.
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Arkansas · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00031102; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; the station zone: ACIS daily lows, 1991-2020. A 10% date means one year in ten has a frost after it in spring or before it in autumn.
How hot and how cold does it get in Cabot?
In a normal year in Cabot, 66 days a year reach 90°F (5 of them 100°F or more), 74 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 92 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 66a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 5a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 74a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 4high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 92a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 1a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1965) is 112°F, on July 31, 1986; the lowest is −7°F, on December 23, 1989.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2018, with 78.89 in; the snowiest season is 1978–79, with 17.8 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00031102; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00031102. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Cabot?
Over a year 76% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Cabot, 4.4 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (82%) and February the cloudiest (65%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 70% | 2.5 |
| February | 65% | 3.0 |
| March | 70% | 4.2 |
| April | 74% | 5.3 |
| May | 75% | 5.8 |
| June | 82% | 6.5 |
| July | 82% | 6.3 |
| August | 82% | 5.8 |
| September | 82% | 5.0 |
| October | 77% | 3.8 |
| November | 74% | 2.8 |
| December | 70% | 2.3 |
Source: NASA POWER solar climatology, 2001-2020 (CERES SYN1deg). Satellite-based, for the 1-degree cell (about 100 km across) around the station, so it describes the area rather than the airport.
How much heating and cooling does Cabot need?
A normal year in Cabot brings 3,363 heating degree days, 37% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,881 cooling degree days, 2.1 times the median (908). Five months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 5,065 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 789 | 0 |
| February | 609 | 1 |
| March | 420 | 9 |
| April | 184 | 40 |
| May | 40 | 169 |
| June | 2 | 371 |
| July | 0 | 490 |
| August | 0 | 462 |
| September | 14 | 270 |
| October | 161 | 63 |
| November | 441 | 6 |
| December | 704 | 1 |
| Year (annual) | 3,363 | 1,881 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00031102. A degree day is one degree of a day's mean temperature below 65°F (heating) or above it (cooling); utilities use them to estimate energy use.
Has Cabot been warmer than normal lately?
Over 33 complete years from 1966 to 2019, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.6°F per century (+0.14°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Cabot's climate compare?
Cabot is warmer than 37 of the other 85 places with their own NOAA record in Arkansas, and wetter than 60. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 60.9°F is warmer than 77%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Cabot is Cfa: temperate, no dry season, hot summer. What the classes mean.
Places with the most similar year elsewhere
Measured month by month on the normal high, low and precipitation, among places of 20,000 or more people in other states:
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for every station PlainClimate covers. Similarity: the root-mean-square difference of the 36 monthly figures, precipitation weighted so an inch counts like 6°F.
Which places near Cabot share this climate record?
5 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.
- Beebe, AR9,092 people · 9 mi NE
- Ward, AR7,022 people · 4 mi NE
- Vilonia, AR4,672 people · 14 mi NW
- Austin, AR4,027 people · 2 mi NE
- El Paso, AR494 people · 10 mi NW
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
Questions about Cabot's climate
What is the coldest month in Cabot?
January, with a normal high of 51°F and a normal low of 28°F. The warmest is July (92°F by day, 69°F at night).
Does it snow in Cabot?
Yes: 2 inches in a normal year, falling on 1 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in February (0.9 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Cabot?
May, with 6.11 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is July with 3.26 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Cabot in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Cabot in zone 8a in ZIP code 72023. By the same method at Cabot's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 9°F (19 years, 1991-2020): zone 7b.
How late can frost come in Cabot?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after April 4; in one year in ten it comes after April 20. Waiting until April 20 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Arkansas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- North Little Rock, AR17 miles from this station, 61.8°F a year
- Marche, AR21 miles from this station, 60.3°F a year
- Little Rock, AR22 miles from this station, 61.7°F a year
- Searcy, AR25 miles from this station, 61.8°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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