Harrison, AR Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Harrison's primary NOAA station, HARRISON.
The climate verdict for Harrison
Water is the standout signal in Harrison, Arkansas: 47.5 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 59°F. It scores 78/100 for climate comfort (good), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 72% of them.
- 59°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 78/100
- comfort score, above 72% of station-mapped location scores
- 47.5"
- annual precipitation · 10" snow
- 232 days
- frost-free growing season
Harrison: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00033164 · Harrison, AR 59°F mean · 47.5" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 59°F
- RANK-UPPER #4,871
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Old Hickory
- PRCP-MID 47.5"
- SWING-MID 41°F
- COMF-TOP 78/100
- LOAD-HEAT 3,822 HDD
- STN-1 USC00033164
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Old Hickory, TN (+ 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 AR station list.
- Harrison (this station) 59°F
- Hot Cheatham L&d, TN 59°F
- Near Old Hickory, TN 59°F
- Near Danville, VA 59°F
- Near Dover, TN 59°F
Climate Living Index · Harrison
Harrison: 69/100 · grade C
Harrison publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Harrison, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 78/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 232 days/year | 82/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 58.6°F · 8.9° from 67.5°F | 72/100 · B |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 107 calendar days | 72/100 · B |
| Snowfall burden | 9.5 inches/year | 64/100 · C |
| Precipitation balance | 47.5 in · 12.5 from 35 in | 56/100 · C |
Harrison · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Harrison is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfa
Coldest-month mean 37.5°F and warmest-month mean 78.9°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
- 78.9°F
- Coldest month
- 37.5°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 Harrison sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Harrison's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 29% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Harrison sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 26% wettest
- Harrison's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 42nd percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Harrison compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Harrison's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
78 Top 28% score exceeds 72% 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%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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 | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 47°F (8°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 3.0" | 2.2" | 19.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 52°F (11°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 2.8" | 3.4" | 14.6 | 0.0 |
| March | 60°F (16°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 4.2" | 2.2" | 6.2 | 0.0 |
| April | 69°F (21°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 5.2" | 0.0" | 2.0 | 0.2 |
| May | 77°F (25°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 5.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| June | 85°F (29°C) | 65°F (18°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 4.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 6.0 |
| July | 89°F (32°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 3.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 17.0 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 78°F (26°C) | 3.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 10.4 |
| September | 82°F (28°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 4.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 6.0 |
| October | 71°F (22°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 4.0" | 0.0" | 1.2 | 0.0 |
| November | 59°F (15°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 3.9" | 0.2" | 8.6 | 0.0 |
| December | 49°F (10°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 3.2" | 1.5" | 16.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Harrison works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 91°F by July 31 and hold at or above 90°F on 28 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 79 dates, bottoming at 28°F around January 22.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 19 through August 15, covering 28 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 19 to October 19.
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.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into February 24, then returns to freezing around December 8, covering 79 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.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is April 30, when 37% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is January 26 at 23%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 106 wet dates a year.
The widest day
October 8 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 23°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Harrison.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 2.2"
7.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 3.4"
7.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.2"
10.8 days with precipitation
10.5 days with precipitation
11.2 days with precipitation
8.4 days with precipitation
9.1 days with precipitation
8.8 days with precipitation
7.6 days with precipitation
8.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
8.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.5"
8.9 days with precipitation
Harrison 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 19%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Harrison has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 41.4°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 5.5" and February 2.8". The three wettest months together take 32% 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.
When it rains in Harrison, it arrives in quantity
47.5" of precipitation falls across only about 106 wet days here, averaging 0.45 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 106 a year, 29% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.45 inches
- Most wet days
- May, about 11
- Fewest wet days
- January, about 7
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Snow reaches Harrison, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 9.5 inches of snow a year here, most likely in February. That is a real but marginal amount: enough that snow is part of the local record, not enough to define the winter.
A figure in this range usually reflects a handful of events that melt quickly rather than a season of accumulation; about 6 days a year record any measurable snow at all.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. An average across thirty years can smooth away a single heavy winter, so a small annual figure does not mean a significant snowfall is impossible.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 9
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 22
50% probability date
Growing Season
232 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,822
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,537
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AR closest to Harrison 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 (59°F here).
- Alva, OK 59°F · 0.0°F off
- Billings, OK 59°F · 0.0°F off
- Chase City, VA 59°F · 0.0°F off
- Clarkesville, GA 59°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (47.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Waynesville, MO 47.5" · 0.0" off
- Hightstown, NJ 47.5" · 0.0" off
- Danbury, NC 47.4" · 0.0" off
- Rockville, IN 47.4" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Harrison's climate pattern fits together
heating led · wet · mid swing
Harrison's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 3,822 annual heating degree days against 1,537 for cooling. Its 41.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Harrison's frost-free season lasts about 232 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 Harrison's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 41.4°F. The annual average is 59°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Alongside its heating load, Harrison carries 47.5 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Annual snowfall totals 9.5 inches. 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 Harrison'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 Harrison, 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 Harrison's primary station: HARRISON (USC00033164). 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 0530460). Match rule for Harrison: 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 Harrison 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.