Malvern, Arkansas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Malvern's normal year runs from 29°F January nights to 92°F July afternoons, with 57.5 inches of precipitation and 1 inch of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 16.3°C, January lows of −1°C, July highs of 33°C, 1,460 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationMalvern
- Station IDUSC00034562
- Location34.39°N 92.84°W
- Elevation300 ft (91 m)
- Population11,082
On October 22, the normal high in Malvern is 72°F and the normal low 48°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 25%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Malvern.
- Jan 52° 29°
- Feb 56° 32°
- Mar 65° 40°
- Apr 74° 48°
- May 81° 59°
- Jun 88° 67°
- Jul 92° 70°
- Aug 92° 68°
- Sep 86° 62°
- Oct 75° 50°
- Nov 62° 39°
- Dec 54° 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 Malvern each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 92°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 29°F. The most precipitation falls in April (6.05 in), the least in August (3.68 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 52°F | 29°F | 40.6°F | 4.24 | 0.5 | 8 | <1 | 20 | 10 h 10 min |
| February | 56°F | 32°F | 44.1°F | 4.59 | 0.5 | 8 | <1 | 15 | 11 h |
| March | 65°F | 40°F | 52.5°F | 5.55 | 0.2 | 10 | <1 | 7 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 74°F | 48°F | 60.9°F | 6.05 | 0.0 | 9 | <1 | 1 | 13 h |
| May | 81°F | 59°F | 69.6°F | 5.53 | 0.0 | 10 | 3 | <1 | 14 h |
| June | 88°F | 67°F | 77.3°F | 4.64 | 0.0 | 8 | 14 | <1 | 14 h 30 min |
| July | 92°F | 70°F | 80.9°F | 4.21 | 0.0 | 8 | 23 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| August | 92°F | 68°F | 80.0°F | 3.68 | 0.0 | 8 | 21 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| September | 86°F | 62°F | 73.9°F | 3.95 | 0.0 | 6 | 10 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 75°F | 50°F | 62.5°F | 4.63 | 0.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 62°F | 39°F | 50.6°F | 5.04 | 0.0 | 8 | <1 | 8 | 10 h 20 min |
| December | 54°F | 32°F | 42.9°F | 5.37 | 0.0 | 9 | <1 | 17 | 9 h 50 min |
| Year (annual) | 73°F | 50°F | 61.3°F | 57.48 | 1.2 | 100 | 73 | 68 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11°C | −1°C | 4.8°C | 108 mm | 1 cm |
| February | 13°C | 0°C | 6.7°C | 117 mm | 1 cm |
| March | 18°C | 4°C | 11.4°C | 141 mm | 1 cm |
| April | 23°C | 9°C | 16.1°C | 154 mm | 0 cm |
| May | 27°C | 15°C | 20.9°C | 140 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 31°C | 19°C | 25.2°C | 118 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 33°C | 21°C | 27.2°C | 107 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 33°C | 20°C | 26.7°C | 93 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 30°C | 17°C | 23.3°C | 100 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 24°C | 10°C | 16.9°C | 118 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 17°C | 4°C | 10.3°C | 128 mm | 0 cm |
| December | 12°C | 0°C | 6.1°C | 136 mm | 0 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00034562; 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 Malvern?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May and October. Of those, October 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 USC00034562.
When is the last frost in Malvern?
In Malvern, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 31 in half of years and after April 16 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 5 in half of years and before October 25 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
- March 311 year in 10 after April 16; 9 in 10 after March 11
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 51 year in 10 before October 25; 9 in 10 before November 22
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 220 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 242 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 18 in half of springs and before November 16 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Malvern in zone 8a in ZIP code 72104, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Malvern's NOAA station is in zone 8a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 12°F (22 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 USC00034562; 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.
How hot and how cold does it get in Malvern?
In a normal year in Malvern, 73 days a year reach 90°F (6 of them 100°F or more), 68 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 100 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 73a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 6a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 68a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 3high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 100a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 1a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1883) is 114°F, on July 29, 1930; the lowest is −11°F, on January 18, 1930.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1973, with 89.69 in; the snowiest season is 1917–18, with 17.5 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00034562; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00034562. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Malvern?
Over a year 76% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Malvern, 4.4 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (82%) and February the cloudiest (65%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 70% | 2.5 |
| February | 65% | 3.0 |
| March | 70% | 4.2 |
| April | 74% | 5.3 |
| May | 75% | 5.8 |
| June | 82% | 6.5 |
| July | 82% | 6.3 |
| August | 82% | 5.8 |
| September | 82% | 5.0 |
| October | 77% | 3.8 |
| November | 74% | 2.8 |
| December | 70% | 2.3 |
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 Malvern need?
A normal year in Malvern brings 3,225 heating degree days, 40% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,916 cooling degree days, 2.1 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 5,154 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 757 | 1 |
| February | 585 | 2 |
| March | 397 | 10 |
| April | 168 | 45 |
| May | 34 | 176 |
| June | 1 | 370 |
| July | 0 | 494 |
| August | 0 | 465 |
| September | 11 | 278 |
| October | 148 | 70 |
| November | 439 | 5 |
| December | 686 | 1 |
| Year (annual) | 3,225 | 1,916 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00034562. 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 Malvern been warmer than normal lately?
2024 averaged 63.9°F, 2.6°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 61.3°F. 3 of the 4 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 61.3°F | at normal | 55.46 | 15.3 |
| 2022 | 61.6°F | +0.3°F | 54.08 | – |
| 2023 | 63.2°F | +1.9°F | 62.63 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 63.9°F | +2.6°F | 52.53 | 0.7 |
Over 62 complete years from 1949 to 2024, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.6°F per century (+0.14°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00034562; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Malvern's climate compare?
Malvern is warmer than 43 of the other 85 places with their own NOAA record in Arkansas, and wetter than 78. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 61.3°F is warmer than 78%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Malvern 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 Malvern share this climate record?
5 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.
- Magnet Cove, AR818 people · 4 mi N
- Rockport, AR710 people · 2 mi NE
- Perla, AR252 people · 4 mi SE
- Lonsdale, AR111 people · 11 mi N
- Jones Mills, AR64 people · 5 mi NW
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 Malvern's climate
What is the coldest month in Malvern?
January, with a normal high of 52°F and a normal low of 29°F. The warmest is July (92°F by day, 70°F at night).
Does it snow in Malvern?
Yes: 1 inch in a normal year, falling on 1 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in January (0.5 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Malvern?
April, with 6.05 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is August with 3.68 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Malvern in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Malvern in zone 8a in ZIP code 72104, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Malvern's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 12°F (22 years, 1991-2020): zone 8a.
How late can frost come in Malvern?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 31; in one year in ten it comes after April 16. Waiting until April 16 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Arkansas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Hot Springs, AR15 miles from this station, 63.1°F a year
- Benton, AR18 miles from this station, 62.6°F a year
- Degray Lake State Park, AR21 miles from this station, 60.9°F a year
- Leola, AR21 miles from this station, 61.9°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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