Hot Springs, VA Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Hot Springs's primary NOAA station, HOT SPRINGS.
The climate verdict for Hot Springs
Water is the standout signal in Hot Springs, Virginia: 46.5 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 51°F. Its climate comfort score of 59/100 (moderate) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 37% of station-mapped location scores.
- 51°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 59/100
- comfort score, above 37% of station-mapped location scores
- 46.5"
- annual precipitation · 25" snow
- 176 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Hot Springs: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00444128 · Hot Springs, VA 51°F mean · 46.5" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 51°F
- RANK-MID #3,156
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Tygart Dam
- PRCP-MID 46.5"
- SWING-MID 41°F
- COMF-MID 59/100
- LOAD-HEAT 5,491 HDD
- STN-1 USC00444128
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Tygart Dam, WV (+ 0.1 °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 VA station list.
- Hot White Sulphur S…, WV 52°F
- Near Tygart Dam, WV 52°F
- Hot Springs (this station) 51°F
- Cold Newport State, RI 51°F
- Near Webster Springs, WV 51°F
Climate Living Index · Hot Springs
Hot Springs: 51/100 · grade D
Hot Springs publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Hot Springs, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 59/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 46.5 in · 11.5 from 35 in | 60/100 · C |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 135 calendar days | 56/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 176 days/year | 47/100 · D |
| Annual temperature balance | 51.4°F · 16.1° from 67.5°F | 46/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 25.3 inches/year | 43/100 · D |
Hot Springs · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Hot Springs is a continental Köppen climate: Dfb
Coldest-month mean 30.6°F and warmest-month mean 71.1°F place this station in continental, no dry season, warm summer climates (Dfb). Class Dfb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfb
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 71.1°F
- Coldest month
- 30.6°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 Hot Springs sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Hot Springs's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 46th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 28% wettest
- Hot Springs's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 38th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Hot Springs compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Hot Springs's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
59 37th percentile score exceeds 37% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Above this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
- 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
Hot Springs's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 92 complete annual observations from 1893 to 2025, HOT SPRINGS warmed at a fitted rate of 0.07°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Hot Springs primary station fitted change +0.07 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 40°F (4°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 3.6" | 8.0" | 26.2 | 0.0 |
| February | 44°F (7°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 3.1" | 7.0" | 23.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 52°F (11°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 4.3" | 4.6" | 19.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 64°F (18°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 4.3" | 0.5" | 7.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 72°F (22°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 4.7" | 0.0" | 1.0 | 0.1 |
| June | 79°F (26°C) | 56°F (14°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 4.3" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| July | 82°F (28°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 4.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.2 |
| August | 80°F (27°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 3.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| September | 74°F (23°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 4.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| October | 64°F (18°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 3.1" | 0.1" | 4.5 | 0.0 |
| November | 53°F (12°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 3.4" | 0.6" | 18.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 43°F (6°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 3.7" | 4.5" | 24.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 82°F around July 9, short of 90°F on every date, while 135 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 21°F near January 20.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 25, then returns to freezing around November 12, covering 135 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 May 16, when 46% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is October 20 at 30%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 133 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 24 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 26°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Hot Springs.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 8.0"
10.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.0"
9.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.6"
11.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.5"
12.6 days with precipitation
14.3 days with precipitation
12.3 days with precipitation
12.5 days with precipitation
11.0 days with precipitation
9.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
8.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.6"
8.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.5"
10.5 days with precipitation
Hot Springs spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 26% of the annual total and December through February 22%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Hot Springs has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 40.5°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 4.7" and February 3.1". The three wettest months together take 29% 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 Hot Springs, it arrives in quantity
46.5" of precipitation falls across only about 132 wet days here, averaging 0.35 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 132 a year, 36% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.35 inches
- Most wet days
- May, about 14
- Fewest wet days
- October, about 9
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.
Winter brings real snow to Hot Springs
Hot Springs averages 25.3 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 9 days that record measurable snow. That is depth accumulating on the ground, which is why it can exceed the annual precipitation figure: precipitation counts the liquid the snow melts down to, and fresh snow is mostly air.
- Annual snowfall: 25.3 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 9 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 5% of the year's precipitation.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. The ten-to-one ratio is a convention, not a measurement: real ratios vary with temperature, so treat the share as an order of magnitude rather than an exact split.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 19
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 26
50% probability date
Growing Season
176 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
5,491
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
576
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside VA closest to Hot Springs 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 (51°F here).
- Aberdeen, WA 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Astoria, OR 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Beatrice, NE 51°F · 0.0°F off
- Brockton, MA 51°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (46.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Sulphur Springs, TX 46.5" · 0.0" off
- Wasola, MO 46.5" · 0.0" off
- Cottage Grove, OR 46.5" · 0.0" off
- Mineola, TX 46.5" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Hot Springs
heating led · wet · mid swing
Hot Springs's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 5,491 annual heating degree days against 576 for cooling. Its 40.5°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Hot Springs's frost-free season lasts about 176 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Hot Springs coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 31°F (-1°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Hot Springs typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Hot Springs snow peak
January
Hot Springs averages 25.3 inches of snow a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals.
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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 Hot Springs's primary station: HOT SPRINGS (USC00444128). 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 a census-designated place (GEOID 5138632), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Hot Springs: 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 Hot Springs 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.