Chesnee, South Carolina climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Chesnee's normal year runs from 27°F January nights to 89°F July afternoons, with 51.7 inches of precipitation and 1 inch of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 14.8°C, January lows of −3°C, July highs of 32°C, 1,313 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationChesnee (7 mi WSW)
- Station IDUSC00381625
- Location35.11°N 81.97°W
- Elevation748 ft (228 m)
- Population935
On October 23, the normal high in Chesnee is 70°F and the normal low 43°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 25%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Chesnee.
- Jan 51° 27°
- Feb 55° 30°
- Mar 62° 36°
- Apr 72° 44°
- May 79° 54°
- Jun 86° 63°
- Jul 89° 67°
- Aug 87° 66°
- Sep 82° 59°
- Oct 72° 46°
- Nov 62° 35°
- Dec 54° 30°
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 Chesnee each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 89°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 27°F. The most precipitation falls in July (4.74 in), the least in October (3.82 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 51°F | 27°F | 39.3°F | 4.26 | 0.5 | 10 | <1 | 22 | 10 h |
| February | 55°F | 30°F | 42.5°F | 3.84 | 0.0 | 10 | <1 | 18 | 10 h 50 min |
| March | 62°F | 36°F | 48.9°F | 4.58 | 0.3 | 11 | <1 | 12 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 72°F | 44°F | 57.9°F | 4.44 | 0.0 | 9 | <1 | 3 | 13 h |
| May | 79°F | 54°F | 66.6°F | 3.93 | 0.0 | 10 | 2 | <1 | 14 h |
| June | 86°F | 63°F | 74.3°F | 4.65 | 0.0 | 11 | 12 | <1 | 14 h 30 min |
| July | 89°F | 67°F | 78.1°F | 4.74 | 0.0 | 12 | 20 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| August | 87°F | 66°F | 76.5°F | 4.64 | 0.0 | 11 | 14 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| September | 82°F | 59°F | 70.5°F | 4.30 | 0.0 | 9 | 6 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 72°F | 46°F | 59.2°F | 3.82 | 0.0 | 7 | <1 | 3 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 62°F | 35°F | 48.6°F | 3.97 | 0.0 | 8 | <1 | 15 | 10 h 20 min |
| December | 54°F | 30°F | 41.7°F | 4.54 | 0.4 | 11 | <1 | 20 | 9 h 50 min |
| Year (annual) | 71°F | 46°F | 58.7°F | 51.71 | 1.2 | 119 | 55 | 93 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11°C | −3°C | 4.1°C | 108 mm | 1 cm |
| February | 13°C | −1°C | 5.8°C | 98 mm | 0 cm |
| March | 17°C | 2°C | 9.4°C | 116 mm | 1 cm |
| April | 22°C | 7°C | 14.4°C | 113 mm | 0 cm |
| May | 26°C | 12°C | 19.2°C | 100 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 30°C | 17°C | 23.5°C | 118 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 32°C | 19°C | 25.6°C | 120 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 31°C | 19°C | 24.7°C | 118 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 28°C | 15°C | 21.4°C | 109 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 22°C | 8°C | 15.1°C | 97 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 17°C | 2°C | 9.2°C | 101 mm | 0 cm |
| December | 12°C | −1°C | 5.4°C | 115 mm | 1 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00381625; 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 Chesnee?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in April, May, September 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 USC00381625.
When is the last frost in Chesnee?
In Chesnee, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 13 in half of years and after April 27 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 26 in half of years and before October 15 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 131 year in 10 after April 27; 9 in 10 after March 29
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- October 261 year in 10 before October 15; 9 in 10 before November 7
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 195 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 219 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 1 in half of springs and before November 4 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Chesnee in zone 8a in ZIP code 29323, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Chesnee's NOAA station is in zone 7b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 9°F (20 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 South Carolina · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00381625; 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 Chesnee?
In a normal year in Chesnee, 55 days a year reach 90°F (1 of them 100°F or more), 93 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 119 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 55a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 1a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 93a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 119a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- fewer than 1a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1928) is 106°F, on July 29, 1952; the lowest is −5°F, on January 26, 1940.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1964, with 78.18 in; the snowiest season is 1935–36, with 26.5 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00381625; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00381625. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Chesnee?
Over a year 77% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Chesnee, 4.4 kWh per square metre a day. June is the sunniest month (80%) and February the cloudiest (72%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 75% | 2.6 |
| February | 72% | 3.3 |
| March | 73% | 4.3 |
| April | 76% | 5.5 |
| May | 76% | 6.0 |
| June | 80% | 6.3 |
| July | 78% | 6.0 |
| August | 79% | 5.5 |
| September | 77% | 4.7 |
| October | 77% | 3.8 |
| November | 78% | 3.0 |
| December | 72% | 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 Chesnee need?
A normal year in Chesnee brings 3,681 heating degree days, 31% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,400 cooling degree days, 54% more than 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 4,343 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 795 | 0 |
| February | 632 | 0 |
| March | 501 | 2 |
| April | 235 | 21 |
| May | 65 | 113 |
| June | 5 | 282 |
| July | 0 | 406 |
| August | 0 | 358 |
| September | 23 | 188 |
| October | 210 | 29 |
| November | 494 | 2 |
| December | 722 | 0 |
| Year (annual) | 3,681 | 1,400 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00381625. 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 Chesnee been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 59.8°F, 1.1°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 58.7°F. 3 of the 3 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 59.4°F | +0.7°F | 52.55 | 3.2 |
| 2024 | 60.4°F | +1.7°F | 66.41 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 59.8°F | +1.1°F | 48.45 | 0.6 |
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00381625. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Chesnee's climate compare?
Chesnee is warmer than 1 of the other 72 places with their own NOAA record in South Carolina, and wetter than 49. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 58.7°F is warmer than 71%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Chesnee 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 Chesnee share this climate record?
8 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.
- Boiling Springs, SC12,609 people · 5 mi S
- Valley Falls, SC7,249 people · 7 mi S
- Mayo, SC1,963 people · 7 mi E
- Ellenboro, NC741 people · 19 mi NE
- Cliffside, NC630 people · 15 mi NE
- Henrietta, NC413 people · 14 mi NE
- Caroleen, NC261 people · 15 mi NE
- Fingerville, SC238 people · 2 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 Chesnee's climate
What is the coldest month in Chesnee?
January, with a normal high of 51°F and a normal low of 27°F. The warmest is July (89°F by day, 67°F at night).
Does it snow in Chesnee?
Yes: 1 inch in a normal year, falling on 1 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in January (0.5 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Chesnee?
July, with 4.74 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is October with 3.82 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Chesnee in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Chesnee in zone 8a in ZIP code 29323, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Chesnee's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 9°F (20 years, 1991-2020): zone 7b.
How late can frost come in Chesnee?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after April 13; in one year in ten it comes after April 27. Waiting until April 27 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- South Carolina climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Forest City, NC14 miles from this station, 58.7°F a year
- Spartanburg, SC14 miles from this station, 61.2°F a year
- Tryon, NC17 miles from this station, 59.6°F a year
- Greenville, SC21 miles from this station, 61.4°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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