Dalton, GA Climate: Temperature by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Dalton's primary NOAA station, DALTON.
The climate verdict for Dalton
Dalton, Georgia has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 61°F. July is the warmest month at 79°F and January the coldest at 41°F.
- 61°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 216 days
- frost-free growing season
Dalton: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00092493 · Dalton, GA 61°F mean
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-MILD 61°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,283
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Borger Hutchins…
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 38°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00092493
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Borger Hutchinson County, TX (+ 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 GA station list.
- Dalton (this station) 61°F
- Hot Chickasha, OK 61°F
- Near Borger Hutchins…, TX 61°F
- Near Brownsville, TN 61°F
- Near Cabot, AR 61°F
Dalton sits in Georgia, the #6 hottest U.S. state at 63.4°F statewide annual average - see all 50 hottest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Dalton
Dalton: 83/100 · grade B
Dalton publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Dalton, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 55 calendar days | 90/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 60.9°F · 6.6° from 67.5°F | 79/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 216 days/year | 75/100 · B |
Dalton · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · balanced station
Where Dalton sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Dalton are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Top 23% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Dalton sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 72%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Dalton 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 | 51°F (11°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | N/A | 17.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 55°F (13°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | N/A | 13.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 65°F (18°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 53°F (11°C) | N/A | 7.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 73°F (23°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 60°F (16°C) | N/A | 0.8 | 0.2 |
| May | 80°F (27°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| June | 86°F (30°C) | 65°F (19°C) | 76°F (24°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 4.7 |
| July | 89°F (32°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 79°F (26°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 14.4 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 79°F (26°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 12.3 |
| September | 84°F (29°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 73°F (23°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 5.6 |
| October | 75°F (24°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 62°F (17°C) | N/A | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| November | 63°F (17°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 51°F (11°C) | N/A | 7.5 | 0.0 |
| December | 54°F (12°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 44°F (7°C) | N/A | 14.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Dalton works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 90°F by August 1 and hold at or above 90°F on 16 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 39 dates, bottoming at 31°F around January 19.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 29 through August 13, covering 16 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 4 to October 28.
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.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into February 7, then returns to freezing around December 31, covering 39 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 2 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 26°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Dalton.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 4
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 2
50% probability date
Growing Season
216 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,151
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,682
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside GA closest to Dalton 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 (61°F here).
- Brownsville, TN 61°F · 0.0°F off
- Cabot, AR 61°F · 0.0°F off
- Chickasha, OK 61°F · 0.0°F off
- Eddyville, KY 61°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Dalton's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · mid swing
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Dalton's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 38.1°F. The annual average is 61°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Dalton's normal, at 3,151 and 1,682 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 216-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 Dalton'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 Dalton'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 Dalton, the bands are descriptive ranges rather than an official NOAA classification or a forecast.
Questions about Dalton'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 Dalton's primary station: DALTON (USC00092493). 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 1321380). Match rule for Dalton: 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 Dalton 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.