Chatom, AL Climate: Temperature 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 Chatom's primary NOAA station, CHATOM.
The climate verdict for Chatom
Chatom, Alabama has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 64°F. July is the warmest month at 81°F and January the coldest at 47°F.
- 64°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 227 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Chatom: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00011566 · Chatom, AL 64°F mean
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-MILD 64°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,900
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alabaster Shelb…
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 34°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00011566
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Alabaster Shelby County, AL (+ 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 AL station list.
- Chatom (this station) 64°F
- Hot Belzoni, MS 64°F
- Near Alabaster Shelb…, AL 64°F
- Near Ashland, LA 64°F
- Near Bamberg, SC 64°F
Climate Living Index · Chatom
Chatom: 86/100 · grade A
Chatom publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Chatom, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 64.4°F · 3.1° from 67.5°F | 91/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 79 calendar days | 83/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 227 days/year | 80/100 · B |
Chatom · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · balanced station
Where Chatom sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Chatom are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Top 14% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Chatom sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 85%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Chatom is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 59°F (15°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 47°F (8°C) | N/A | 14.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 64°F (18°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 51°F (10°C) | N/A | 10.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 72°F (22°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 57°F (14°C) | N/A | 4.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 78°F (26°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 64°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.2 | 0.9 |
| May | 85°F (30°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 72°F (22°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 8.1 |
| June | 90°F (32°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 78°F (26°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 17.3 |
| July | 92°F (33°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 81°F (27°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 24.6 |
| August | 91°F (33°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 80°F (27°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 23.0 |
| September | 87°F (31°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 75°F (24°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 12.8 |
| October | 79°F (26°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 65°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.4 | 1.6 |
| November | 69°F (21°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 55°F (13°C) | N/A | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 62°F (16°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 49°F (9°C) | N/A | 13.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Chatom runs from a mild 34°F around January 10 to 92°F at the peak near July 22, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 13 through August 30, covering 79 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 10 to November 11.
This counts calendar dates whose 1991–2020 normal high reaches 90°F. It is a smaller number than the 90°F+ day counts in the monthly table above, which measure how often the threshold was actually crossed in a typical year. A date can average 88°F and still exceed 90°F in half of all years.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 34°F around January 10.
The widest day
April 12 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 30°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Chatom.
Where Chatom Stands Nationally
Heat is a defining feature of the normals calendar — the normal daily high reaches 90°F on roughly 79 days a year, more than four out of five ranked stations record.
Chatom 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
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 8
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 26
50% probability date
Growing Season
227 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,306
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
2,100
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AL closest to Chatom 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 (64°F here).
- Ashland, LA 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Bamberg, SC 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Belzoni, MS 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Benton, LA 64°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Chatom's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · mid swing
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Chatom's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 33.8°F. The annual average is 64°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Chatom's normal, at 2,306 and 2,100 degree days respectively. Neither total exceeds the other by more than two to one, so the record is better read as a mixed-demand calendar than as heating-led or cooling-led.
A roughly 227-day frost-free season sits inside this mixed heating-and-cooling profile. Start and end dates matter because both sides of the thermostat register during a normal year.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Chatom's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Chatom's primary station, where heating and cooling demand are close enough that neither season sets the character on its own. On a balanced station like Chatom, the bands are descriptive ranges rather than an official NOAA classification or a forecast.
Questions about Chatom's climate
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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 Chatom's primary station: CHATOM (USC00011566). 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 0114008). Match rule for Chatom: 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 Chatom 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.