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Creston, WV Climate: Temperature by Month

Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation

30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Creston's primary NOAA station, CRESTON.

The climate verdict for Creston

Creston, West Virginia has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 53°F. July is the warmest month at 74°F and January the coldest at 31°F.

53°F
annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
173 days
frost-free days per growing season

Creston: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.

Normals record plate

Sheet USC00462054 · Creston, WV 53°F mean

TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART

Nearest mean-temperature peer: Eisenhower Nhs, PA (+ 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.

Climate Living Index · Creston

Creston: 49/100 · grade D

Creston publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.

D
49/100Climate Living Index

PlainClimate-derived for Creston, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.

Creston Living Index dimension scores
DimensionStation valueScore
Annual temperature balance 52.8°F · 14.7° from 67.5°F 52/100 · D
Normal heat + freeze calendar 147 calendar days 49/100 · D
Frost-free season 173 days/year 44/100 · D

Creston · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .

National standing · heating-led station

Where Creston sits across the climate record

Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Creston are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.

Annual temperature
52nd percentile warmth
Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
Seasonal temperature swing
49th percentile swing
Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.

Monthly Temperatures

Average daily high and low temperatures by month

Month Avg High Avg Low Mean
January 41°F (5°C) 20°F (-7°C) 31°F (-1°C)
February 45°F (7°C) 22°F (-6°C) 33°F (1°C)
March 55°F (13°C) 28°F (-2°C) 42°F (5°C)
April 67°F (20°C) 37°F (3°C) 52°F (11°C)
May 75°F (24°C) 48°F (9°C) 62°F (17°C)
June 82°F (28°C) 57°F (14°C) 70°F (21°C)
July 86°F (30°C) 62°F (16°C) 74°F (23°C)
August 85°F (30°C) 61°F (16°C) 73°F (23°C)
September 79°F (26°C) 53°F (12°C) 66°F (19°C)
October 68°F (20°C) 41°F (5°C) 54°F (12°C)
November 56°F (13°C) 30°F (-1°C) 43°F (6°C)
December 45°F (7°C) 25°F (-4°C) 35°F (2°C)

The year, day by day

Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 86°F around July 7, short of 90°F on every date, while 147 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 19°F near January 25.

Normal daily high and low temperature for Creston, January through December Peaks 86°F around July 7. Bottoms 19°F around January 25. 10 30 50 70 90 freezing JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Normal daily high and low across the calendar year. NOAA 1991–2020 daily normals, CRESTON.

The freezing stretch

The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 2, then returns to freezing around November 8, covering 147 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.

The widest day

April 13 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 31°F between the normal high and the normal low.

Look up any date

Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Creston.

Monthly Precipitation

Average monthly rainfall

January N/A
February N/A
March N/A
April N/A
May N/A
June N/A
July N/A
August N/A
September N/A
October N/A
November N/A
December N/A

Frost Dates & Growing Season

First Fall Freeze

October 19

50% probability date

Last Spring Freeze

April 29

50% probability date

Growing Season

173 days

Heating & Cooling Degree Days

Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling

Heating Degree Days

5,264

Higher = more heating needed

Cooling Degree Days

848

Higher = more cooling needed

Warmest Month

July

Coldest Month

January

Nationwide similar cities

Other rankable U.S. places outside WV closest to Creston 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 (53°F here).

West Virginia climate overview →

Data-derived climate profile

How Creston's climate pattern fits together

heating led · mid swing

Creston's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,264 annual heating degree days against 848 for cooling. Its 43.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.

Creston's frost-free season lasts about 173 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.

July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Creston's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 43.0°F. The annual average is 53°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.

A moisture-range label is withheld because Creston'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 Creston's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Creston, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.

Questions about Creston's climate

How cold does Creston get in winter?
Creston records about 136 days a year with a low at or below freezing, with January the coldest month on the normals, and an annual average daily low of 40°F.
How much energy does heating and cooling require in Creston?
Creston has 5,264 heating degree days and 848 cooling degree days annually, a heating-dominated climate. Degree-day definitions: reading weather data.

Data Sources

Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Creston's primary station: CRESTON (USC00462054). 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 Creston; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainClimate

On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Creston 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.