Elk Creek, VA 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 Elk Creek's primary NOAA station, ELK CREEK 4SSW.
The climate verdict for Elk Creek
Elk Creek, Virginia has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 52°F. July is the warmest month at 71°F and January the coldest at 32°F.
- 52°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 194 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Elk Creek: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00442730 · Elk Creek, VA 52°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 52°F
- RANK-MID #3,362
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bluefield Merce…
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 39°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 5,175 HDD
- STN-1 USC00442730
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Bluefield Mercer County, WV (+ 0.1 °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 VA station list.
- Elk Creek (this station) 52°F
- Hot Athens, WV 52°F
- Near Bluefield Merce…, WV 52°F
- Near Blue Canyon, CA 52°F
- Near Flat Springs, NC 52°F
Climate Living Index · Elk Creek
Elk Creek: 59/100 · grade C
Elk Creek publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Elk Creek, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 113 calendar days | 69/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 194 days/year | 60/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 52.0°F · 15.5° from 67.5°F | 49/100 · D |
Elk Creek · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Elk Creek sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Elk Creek are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- 49th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 31st 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 | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 41°F (5°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 32°F (0°C) | N/A | 20.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 45°F (7°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 35°F (2°C) | N/A | 14.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 52°F (11°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 42°F (5°C) | N/A | 16.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 62°F (17°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 51°F (11°C) | N/A | 4.8 | 0.0 |
| May | 69°F (21°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 61°F (16°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| June | 76°F (24°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 67°F (20°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| July | 79°F (26°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 71°F (22°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| August | 77°F (25°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 69°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| September | 72°F (22°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 64°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| October | 63°F (17°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 53°F (12°C) | N/A | 2.0 | 0.0 |
| November | 54°F (12°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 44°F (7°C) | N/A | 14.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 46°F (8°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 36°F (2°C) | N/A | 17.2 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 79°F around July 20, short of 90°F on every date, while 113 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 21°F near January 14.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 20, then returns to freezing around November 29, covering 113 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
March 28 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 22°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Elk Creek.
Where Elk Creek Stands Nationally
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 22°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Elk Creek 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
October 27
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 16
50% probability date
Growing Season
194 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,175
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
474
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside VA closest to Elk Creek 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 (52°F here).
- Arapahoe, CO 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Athens, IL 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Congerville, IL 52°F · 0.0°F off
- Farmington, UT 52°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Elk Creek's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Elk Creek's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,175 annual heating degree days against 474 for cooling. Its 39.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Elk Creek's frost-free season lasts about 194 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 Elk Creek's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 39.0°F. The annual average is 52°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Elk Creek'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 Elk Creek'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 Elk Creek, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Elk Creek'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 Elk Creek's primary station: ELK CREEK 4SSW (USC00442730). 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 Elk Creek; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Elk Creek 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.