Greenwood, SC Climate: Temperature by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Greenwood's primary NOAA station, GREENWOOD - 2 stations mapped to the area.
The climate verdict for Greenwood
Greenwood, South Carolina has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 63°F. July is the warmest month at 81°F and January the coldest at 44°F.
- 63°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 231 days
- frost-free growing season
Greenwood: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00383754 · Greenwood, SC 63°F mean
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-MIX · STN-MULTI · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-MILD 63°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,626
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alexander City
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 37°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-MULTI USC00383754
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Alexander City, AL (+ 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 SC station list.
- Greenwood (this station) 63°F
- Hot Calhoun City, MS 63°F
- Near Alexander City, AL 63°F
- Near Alpine, TX 63°F
- Near Bowie, TX 63°F
Climate Living Index · Greenwood
Greenwood: 86/100 · grade A
Greenwood publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Greenwood, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 60 calendar days | 89/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 62.8°F · 4.7° from 67.5°F | 86/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 231 days/year | 81/100 · B |
Greenwood · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · balanced station
Where Greenwood sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Greenwood are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Top 18% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Greenwood sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 76%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Greenwood 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 | 55°F (13°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 44°F (7°C) | N/A | 17.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 59°F (15°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 47°F (8°C) | N/A | 13.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 67°F (20°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 54°F (12°C) | N/A | 7.8 | 0.0 |
| April | 76°F (24°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 63°F (17°C) | N/A | 1.3 | 0.3 |
| May | 83°F (28°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 70°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 2.9 |
| June | 89°F (32°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 78°F (25°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 11.8 |
| July | 92°F (33°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 81°F (27°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 19.8 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 80°F (27°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 15.3 |
| September | 85°F (29°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 74°F (23°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 5.8 |
| October | 75°F (24°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 63°F (17°C) | N/A | 0.6 | 0.1 |
| November | 65°F (18°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 53°F (12°C) | N/A | 7.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 58°F (14°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 46°F (8°C) | N/A | 16.6 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Greenwood runs from a mild 33°F around January 11 to 92°F at the peak near July 13, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 20 through August 18, covering 60 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 25 to October 30.
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 33°F around January 11.
The widest day
April 6 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 27°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Greenwood.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 12
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 26
50% probability date
Growing Season
231 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,744
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,960
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside SC closest to Greenwood 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 (63°F here).
- Alexander City, AL 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Alpine, TX 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Bowie, TX 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Calhoun City, MS 63°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Greenwood's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · mid swing
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Greenwood's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 37.2°F. The annual average is 63°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Greenwood's normal, at 2,744 and 1,960 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.
A roughly 231-day frost-free season sits inside this mixed heating-and-cooling profile. Start and end dates matter because both sides of the thermostat register during a normal year.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Greenwood'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 Greenwood'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 Greenwood, the bands are descriptive ranges rather than an official NOAA classification or a forecast.
Questions about Greenwood'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 Greenwood's primary station: GREENWOOD (USC00383754). 2 NOAA stations are mapped to the Greenwood area; the primary station's record is used for consistency. 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 4530895). Match rule for Greenwood: 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 Greenwood 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.