Fall Creek Falls State Park, TN Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Fall Creek Falls State Park's primary NOAA station, FALL CREEK FALLS SP.
The climate verdict for Fall Creek Falls State Park
Water is the standout signal in Fall Creek Falls State Park, Tennessee: 59.0 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 55°F. Its climate comfort score of 68/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 56% of station-mapped location scores.
- 55°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 68/100
- comfort score, above 56% of station-mapped location scores
- 59.0"
- annual precipitation
- 181 days
- frost-free growing season
Fall Creek Falls State Park: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00403040 · Fall Creek Falls State Park, TN 55°F mean · 59.0" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 55°F
- RANK-UPPER #4,185
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Fletcher
- PRCP-WET 59.0"
- SWING-MID 38°F
- COMF-MID 68/100
- LOAD-HEAT 4,380 HDD
- STN-1 USC00403040
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Fletcher, NC ( -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 TN station list.
- Fall Creek Fall… (this station) 55°F
- Cold Fletcher, NC 55°F
- Hot Prescott, AZ 55°F
- Near Erwin, TN 55°F
- Near Seligman, AZ 55°F
Climate Living Index · Fall Creek Falls State Park
Fall Creek Falls State Park: 54/100 · grade D
Fall Creek Falls State Park publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Fall Creek Falls State Park, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 68/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 106 calendar days | 73/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 55.3°F · 12.2° from 67.5°F | 60/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 181 days/year | 51/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 59.0 in · 24.0 from 35 in | 15/100 · F |
Fall Creek Falls State Park · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Fall Creek Falls State Park is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfa
Coldest-month mean 35.5°F and warmest-month mean 73.5°F place this station in temperate, no dry season, hot summer climates (Cfa). Class Cfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Cfa
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 73.5°F
- Coldest month
- 35.5°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · heating-led station
Where Fall Creek Falls State Park sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Fall Creek Falls State Park's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 61st percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 6% wettest
- Fall Creek Falls State Park's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 73%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Fall Creek Falls State Park is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Fall Creek Falls State Park compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Fall Creek Falls State Park's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
68 Top 44% score exceeds 56% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores
- 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). This entry sits in this band.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 46°F (8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 5.4" | 22.4 | 0.0 |
| February | 50°F (10°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 5.2" | 19.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 58°F (15°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 6.2" | 13.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 68°F (20°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 5.4" | 5.0 | 0.0 |
| May | 75°F (24°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 4.8" | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| June | 81°F (27°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 5.0" | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| July | 85°F (29°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 74°F (23°C) | 5.2" | 0.0 | 3.1 |
| August | 84°F (29°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 3.8" | 0.0 | 4.7 |
| September | 80°F (26°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 4.3" | 0.1 | 1.7 |
| October | 71°F (21°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 3.4" | 4.7 | 0.2 |
| November | 59°F (15°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 4.6" | 13.8 | 0.0 |
| December | 49°F (10°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 5.7" | 20.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 85°F around July 16, short of 90°F on every date, while 106 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 25°F near January 21.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 5, then returns to freezing around November 21, covering 106 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
October 24 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 28°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Fall Creek Falls State Park.
Where Fall Creek Falls State Park Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 59 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Fall Creek Falls State Park 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
Fall Creek Falls State Park spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 24% of the annual total and December through February 28%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Fall Creek Falls State Park has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 38°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: March averages 6.2" and October 3.4". The three wettest months together take 29% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 19
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 21
50% probability date
Growing Season
181 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,380
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
864
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside TN closest to Fall Creek Falls State Park 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 (55°F here).
- Beattyville, KY 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Clinton, MO 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Eureka, KS 55°F · 0.0°F off
- Fort Leonard Wood, MO 55°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (59.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Hanceville, AL 59.0" · 0.0" off
- Winona, MS 59.0" · 0.0" off
- Toccoa, GA 59.0" · 0.0" off
- Hendersonville, NC 59.0" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Fall Creek Falls State Park's climate pattern fits together
heating led · wet · mid swing
Fall Creek Falls State Park's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 4,380 annual heating degree days against 864 for cooling. Its 38.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Fall Creek Falls State Park's frost-free season lasts about 181 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 Fall Creek Falls State Park's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 38.0°F. The annual average is 55°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Alongside its heating load, Fall Creek Falls State Park carries 59.0 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. That distinction matters because a wet annual total can arrive as rain, snow, or a mixture at different times.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Fall Creek Falls State Park'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 Fall Creek Falls State Park, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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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 Fall Creek Falls State Park's primary station: FALL CREEK FALLS SP (USC00403040). 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 Fall Creek Falls State Park; 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 Fall Creek Falls State Park 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.