Fort Gaines, GA Climate: Temperature by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Fort Gaines's primary NOAA station, FT GAINES 2.
The climate verdict for Fort Gaines
Fort Gaines, Georgia has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 66°F. July is the warmest month at 82°F and January the coldest at 49°F.
- 66°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 253 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Fort Gaines: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00093578 · Fort Gaines, GA 66°F mean
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-MILD 66°F
- RANK-UPPER #6,106
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Aguila
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 33°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00093578
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Aguila, AZ (+ 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.
- Fort Gaines (this station) 66°F
- Hot Corsicana, TX 66°F
- Near Aguila, AZ 66°F
- Near Barstow, CA 66°F
- Near Centerville, TX 66°F
Fort Gaines 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 · Fort Gaines
Fort Gaines: 93/100 · grade A
Fort Gaines publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Fort Gaines, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 65.7°F · 1.8° from 67.5°F | 94/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 49 calendar days | 92/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 253 days/year | 90/100 · A |
Fort Gaines · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · balanced station
Where Fort Gaines sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Fort Gaines are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Top 11% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Fort Gaines sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 86%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Fort Gaines 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 | 59°F (15°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 49°F (9°C) | N/A | 10.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 62°F (17°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 51°F (11°C) | N/A | 7.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 70°F (21°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 58°F (14°C) | N/A | 2.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 76°F (24°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 64°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| May | 84°F (29°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 73°F (23°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 4.0 |
| June | 89°F (32°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 79°F (26°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 14.2 |
| July | 91°F (33°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 82°F (28°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 19.7 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 81°F (27°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 18.3 |
| September | 87°F (30°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 77°F (25°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 8.1 |
| October | 78°F (26°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | N/A | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| November | 69°F (21°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 58°F (14°C) | N/A | 1.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 62°F (16°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 51°F (11°C) | N/A | 8.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Fort Gaines runs from a mild 38°F around January 13 to 91°F at the peak near July 20, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 28 through August 15, covering 49 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 18 to November 12.
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.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 38°F around January 13.
The widest day
March 13 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 24°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Fort Gaines.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 21
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 13
50% probability date
Growing Season
253 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
1,988
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
2,271
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside GA closest to Fort Gaines 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 (66°F here).
- Aguila, AZ 66°F · 0.0°F off
- Barstow, CA 66°F · 0.0°F off
- Centerville, TX 66°F · 0.0°F off
- Corsicana, TX 66°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Fort Gaines's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · mid swing
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Fort Gaines's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 33.1°F. The annual average is 66°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Fort Gaines's normal, at 1,988 and 2,271 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.
The frost-free window extends for about 253 days. That is a long calendar measure, but it is not a forecast and does not combine heat, rainfall, soil, or local elevation into a planting recommendation.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Fort Gaines'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 Fort Gaines'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 Fort Gaines, the bands are descriptive ranges rather than an official NOAA classification or a forecast.
Questions about Fort Gaines'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 Fort Gaines's primary station: FT GAINES 2 (USC00093578). 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 1330816). Match rule for Fort Gaines: 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 Fort Gaines 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.