Gravette, Arkansas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Gravette's normal year runs from 29°F January nights to 93°F July afternoons, with 48.6 inches of precipitation and 13 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 15.8°C, January lows of −2°C, July highs of 34°C, 1,234 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationGravette
- Station IDUSC00032930
- Location36.43°N 94.45°W
- Elevation1,260 ft (384 m)
- Population3,826
On October 23, the normal high in Gravette is 70°F and the normal low 48°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 29%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Gravette.
- Jan 49° 29°
- Feb 54° 33°
- Mar 63° 41°
- Apr 73° 49°
- May 80° 58°
- Jun 87° 66°
- Jul 93° 69°
- Aug 92° 68°
- Sep 84° 60°
- Oct 73° 50°
- Nov 61° 40°
- Dec 51° 32°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
What is the weather like in Gravette each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 93°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 29°F. The most precipitation falls in May (6.21 in), the least in February (2.66 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49°F | 29°F | 38.7°F | 2.81 | 3.6 | 8 | <1 | 21 | 10 h |
| February | 54°F | 33°F | 43.2°F | 2.66 | 2.9 | 7 | <1 | 16 | 10 h 50 min |
| March | 63°F | 41°F | 52.1°F | 3.92 | 3.6 | 9 | <1 | 9 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 73°F | 49°F | 60.7°F | 4.82 | 0.1 | 9 | <1 | 2 | 13 h 10 min |
| May | 80°F | 58°F | 68.5°F | 6.21 | 0.0 | 10 | 1 | <1 | 14 h |
| June | 87°F | 66°F | 76.6°F | 4.65 | 0.0 | 9 | 10 | <1 | 14 h 40 min |
| July | 93°F | 69°F | 80.9°F | 3.93 | 0.0 | 8 | 22 | <1 | 14 h 30 min |
| August | 92°F | 68°F | 80.0°F | 3.47 | 0.0 | 7 | 20 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| September | 84°F | 60°F | 72.3°F | 4.45 | 0.0 | 8 | 8 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 73°F | 50°F | 61.4°F | 4.56 | 0.1 | 9 | <1 | 2 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 61°F | 40°F | 50.3°F | 3.93 | 0.5 | 8 | <1 | 9 | 10 h 20 min |
| December | 51°F | 32°F | 41.5°F | 3.17 | 1.7 | 8 | <1 | 18 | 9 h 40 min |
| Year (annual) | 72°F | 49°F | 60.5°F | 48.58 | 12.5 | 99 | 61 | 78 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9°C | −2°C | 3.7°C | 71 mm | 9 cm |
| February | 12°C | 0°C | 6.2°C | 68 mm | 7 cm |
| March | 17°C | 5°C | 11.2°C | 100 mm | 9 cm |
| April | 23°C | 9°C | 15.9°C | 122 mm | 0 cm |
| May | 26°C | 14°C | 20.3°C | 158 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 31°C | 19°C | 24.8°C | 118 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 34°C | 21°C | 27.2°C | 100 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 33°C | 20°C | 26.7°C | 88 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 29°C | 16°C | 22.4°C | 113 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 23°C | 10°C | 16.3°C | 116 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 16°C | 4°C | 10.2°C | 100 mm | 1 cm |
| December | 11°C | 0°C | 5.3°C | 81 mm | 4 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00032930; 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.
When is the best weather to visit Gravette?
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 USC00032930.
When is the last frost in Gravette?
In Gravette, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 5 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 15 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 51 year in 10 after April 26; 9 in 10 after March 18
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- October 281 year in 10 before October 15; 9 in 10 before November 12
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 204 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 228 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 25 in half of springs and before November 7 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gravette in zone 7a across its 2 ZIP code areas (7a in 72736, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Gravette's NOAA station is in zone 7a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 1°F (28 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 USC00032930; 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.
What hardiness zone is each Gravette ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Gravette's 2 ZIP code areas are all in zone 7a. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.
Source: USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; ZIP areas in the place: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) lies in the place.
How hot and how cold does it get in Gravette?
In a normal year in Gravette, 61 days a year reach 90°F (8 of them 100°F or more), 78 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 99 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 61a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 8a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 78a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 7high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 99a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 4a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1898) is 114°F, on July 19, 1936; the lowest is −29°F, on February 13, 1905.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2019, with 84.86 in; the snowiest season is 1978–79, with 33.0 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00032930; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00032930. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Gravette?
Over a year 76% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Gravette, 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 much heating and cooling does Gravette need?
A normal year in Gravette brings 3,446 heating degree days, 36% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,842 cooling degree days, 2.0 times 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 5,044 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 814 | 0 |
| February | 612 | 1 |
| March | 414 | 14 |
| April | 179 | 51 |
| May | 51 | 160 |
| June | 2 | 350 |
| July | 0 | 491 |
| August | 0 | 464 |
| September | 24 | 243 |
| October | 173 | 61 |
| November | 449 | 7 |
| December | 729 | 1 |
| Year (annual) | 3,446 | 1,842 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00032930. 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.
Has Gravette been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 61.1°F, 0.6°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 60.5°F. 3 of the 3 complete years since 2023 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 61.1°F | +0.6°F | – | – |
| 2024 | 62.2°F | +1.7°F | 41.19 | – |
| 2025 | 61.1°F | +0.6°F | 54.28 | – |
Over 104 complete years from 1899 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 0.3°F per century (+0.02°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00032930; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Gravette's climate compare?
Gravette is warmer than 31 of the other 85 places with their own NOAA record in Arkansas, and wetter than 14. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 60.5°F is warmer than 76%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Gravette 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 Gravette share this climate record?
12 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.
- Noel, MO2,190 people · 8 mi N
- Decatur, AR1,723 people · 5 mi S
- Southwest City, MO976 people · 11 mi NW
- Pineville, MO843 people · 11 mi N
- Jane, MO401 people · 11 mi NE
- Lanagan, MO381 people · 12 mi N
- Sycamore, OK249 people · 15 mi W
- Butler, OK169 people · 18 mi NW
- Deer Lick, OK93 people · 17 mi W
- White Water, OK59 people · 16 mi W
- Ginger Blue, MO35 people · 11 mi N
- Indianola, OK0 people · 13 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 Gravette's climate
What is the coldest month in Gravette?
January, with a normal high of 49°F and a normal low of 29°F. The warmest is July (93°F by day, 69°F at night).
Does it snow in Gravette?
Yes: 13 inches in a normal year, falling on 5 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in January (3.6 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Gravette?
May, with 6.21 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is February with 2.66 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Gravette in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Gravette in zone 7a across its 2 ZIP code areas (7a in 72736, the largest). By the same method at Gravette's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 1°F (28 years, 1991-2020): zone 7a.
How late can frost come in Gravette?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after April 5; 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
- Fayetteville NW Ar Airport, AR13 miles from this station, 58.6°F a year
- Bentonville, AR15 miles from this station, 57.3°F a year
- Anderson, MO16 miles from this station, 57.2°F a year
- Upper Spavinaw Port, OK22 miles from this station, 57.8°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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