Fayetteville NW Ar Airport, Arkansas climate: Climate normals at a NOAA weather station
Fayetteville NW Ar Airport's normal year runs from 27°F January nights to 90°F July afternoons, with 45.4 inches of precipitation 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, 1,154 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationFayetteville NW Ar Airport
- Station IDUSW00053922
- Location36.28°N 94.30°W
- Elevation1,287 ft (392 m)
On October 23, the normal high in Fayetteville NW Ar Airport is 69°F and the normal low 45°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 30%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Fayetteville NW Ar Airport.
- Jan 48° 27°
- Feb 52° 30°
- Mar 61° 38°
- Apr 70° 46°
- May 77° 55°
- Jun 86° 64°
- Jul 90° 69°
- Aug 90° 67°
- Sep 82° 59°
- Oct 72° 47°
- Nov 60° 37°
- Dec 50° 29°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
What is the weather like at Fayetteville NW Ar Airport each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 90°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 27°F. The most precipitation falls in May (5.92 in), the least in February (2.24 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 48°F | 27°F | 37.1°F | 2.51 | 7 | <1 | 24 | 10 h |
| February | 52°F | 30°F | 41.1°F | 2.24 | 7 | <1 | 19 | 10 h 50 min |
| March | 61°F | 38°F | 49.6°F | 3.53 | 11 | <1 | 10 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 70°F | 46°F | 58.1°F | 4.98 | 11 | <1 | 3 | 13 h |
| May | 77°F | 55°F | 66.3°F | 5.92 | 13 | 1 | <1 | 14 h |
| June | 86°F | 64°F | 74.9°F | 4.29 | 9 | 6 | <1 | 14 h 40 min |
| July | 90°F | 69°F | 79.4°F | 4.17 | 9 | 16 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| August | 90°F | 67°F | 78.6°F | 3.34 | 8 | 16 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| September | 82°F | 59°F | 70.5°F | 3.86 | 8 | 5 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 72°F | 47°F | 59.4°F | 4.00 | 9 | <1 | 2 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 60°F | 37°F | 48.5°F | 3.74 | 8 | <1 | 11 | 10 h 20 min |
| December | 50°F | 29°F | 39.6°F | 2.85 | 7 | <1 | 22 | 9 h 40 min |
| Year (annual) | 70°F | 47°F | 58.6°F | 45.43 | 107 | 45 | 92 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9°C | −3°C | 2.8°C | 64 mm |
| February | 11°C | −1°C | 5.1°C | 57 mm |
| March | 16°C | 3°C | 9.8°C | 90 mm |
| April | 21°C | 8°C | 14.5°C | 126 mm |
| May | 25°C | 13°C | 19.1°C | 150 mm |
| June | 30°C | 18°C | 23.8°C | 109 mm |
| July | 32°C | 20°C | 26.3°C | 106 mm |
| August | 32°C | 19°C | 25.9°C | 85 mm |
| September | 28°C | 15°C | 21.4°C | 98 mm |
| October | 22°C | 8°C | 15.2°C | 102 mm |
| November | 15°C | 3°C | 9.2°C | 95 mm |
| December | 10°C | −2°C | 4.2°C | 72 mm |
NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for this station. The nearest record that keeps one, Bentonville (5 miles away), gets 10 inches of snow in a normal year; elevation and distance can change that.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00053922; 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.
Which months are mildest at Fayetteville NW Ar Airport?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in April, May, September and October. Of those, September has the fewest days with rain (8).
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 USW00053922.
When is the last frost at Fayetteville NW Ar Airport?
In Fayetteville NW Ar Airport, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 8 in half of years and after April 26 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 28 in half of years and before October 14 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 81 year in 10 after April 26; 9 in 10 after March 21
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- October 281 year in 10 before October 14; 9 in 10 before November 12
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 203 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 226 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 27 in half of springs and before November 7 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fayetteville NW Ar Airport in zone 7a in ZIP code 72713, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, the station is in zone 7a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 3°F (20 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Arkansas · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USW00053922; 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 at Fayetteville NW Ar Airport?
In a normal year in Fayetteville NW Ar Airport, 45 days a year reach 90°F (4 of them 100°F or more), 92 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 107 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 45a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 4a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 92a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 9high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 107a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1999) is 108°F, on August 5, 2011; the lowest is −21°F, on February 10, 2011.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2019, with 65.49 in.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00053922; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USW00053922. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is it at Fayetteville NW Ar Airport?
Over a year 76% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds at Fayetteville NW Ar Airport, 4.4 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (84%) and February the cloudiest (67%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 71% | 2.5 |
| February | 67% | 3.1 |
| March | 69% | 4.1 |
| April | 72% | 5.2 |
| May | 73% | 5.8 |
| June | 82% | 6.7 |
| July | 84% | 6.5 |
| August | 82% | 5.8 |
| September | 82% | 5.0 |
| October | 77% | 3.7 |
| November | 75% | 2.7 |
| December | 69% | 2.1 |
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 many heating and cooling degree days does Fayetteville NW Ar Airport record?
A normal year at Fayetteville NW Ar Airport brings 3,858 heating degree days, 28% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,561 cooling degree days, 72% 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 4,540 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 865 | 0 |
| February | 669 | 1 |
| March | 483 | 6 |
| April | 235 | 29 |
| May | 72 | 114 |
| June | 4 | 302 |
| July | 0 | 446 |
| August | 1 | 422 |
| September | 30 | 197 |
| October | 214 | 41 |
| November | 498 | 3 |
| December | 788 | 0 |
| Year (annual) | 3,858 | 1,561 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00053922. 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.
Have recent years at Fayetteville NW Ar Airport been warmer than normal?
2025 averaged 60.0°F, 1.4°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 58.6°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 59.2°F | +0.6°F | 50.70 |
| 2022 | 58.9°F | +0.3°F | 49.25 |
| 2023 | 60.4°F | +1.8°F | 48.26 |
| 2024 | 61.6°F | +3.0°F | 35.78 |
| 2025 | 60.0°F | +1.4°F | 50.99 |
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00053922. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Fayetteville NW Ar Airport's climate compare?
Fayetteville NW Ar Airport is warmer than 16 of the 86 places with their own NOAA record in Arkansas, and wetter than 4. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 58.6°F is warmer than 71%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Fayetteville NW Ar Airport 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 Fayetteville NW Ar Airport share this climate record?
7 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.
- Centerton, AR25,745 people · 5 mi N
- Tontitown, AR7,941 people · 9 mi S
- Elm Springs, AR2,872 people · 6 mi SE
- Highfill, AR2,793 people · 1 mi SW
- West Siloam Springs, OK1,068 people · 18 mi SW
- Watts, OK277 people · 20 mi SW
- Springtown, AR89 people · 7 mi W
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 Fayetteville NW Ar Airport's climate
What is the coldest month at Fayetteville NW Ar Airport?
January, with a normal high of 48°F and a normal low of 27°F. The warmest is July (90°F by day, 69°F at night).
Does it snow at Fayetteville NW Ar Airport?
Yes. NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for the station; the nearest record that keeps one, Bentonville (5 miles away), records 10 inches of snow in a normal year.
What is the rainiest month at Fayetteville NW Ar Airport?
May, with 5.92 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is February with 2.24 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Fayetteville NW Ar Airport in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Fayetteville NW Ar Airport in zone 7a in ZIP code 72713, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at the station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 3°F (20 years, 1991-2020): zone 7a.
How late can frost come at Fayetteville NW Ar Airport?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after April 8; in one year in ten it comes after April 26. Waiting until April 26 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Arkansas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Bentonville, AR6 miles from this station, 57.3°F a year
- Gravette, AR13 miles from this station, 60.5°F a year
- Fayetteville, AR21 miles from this station, 57.4°F a year
- Washburn, MO24 miles from this station, 57.6°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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