Milledgeville, Georgia climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Milledgeville's normal year runs from 33°F January nights to 93°F July afternoons, with 48.2 inches of precipitation and less than an inch of snow (0.6 in) a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 17.7°C, January lows of 1°C, July highs of 34°C, 1,224 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationMilledgeville
- Station IDUSC00095874
- Location33.08°N 83.25°W
- Elevation368 ft (112 m)
- Population16,664
On October 23, the normal high in Milledgeville is 75°F and the normal low 49°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 23%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Milledgeville.
- Jan 58° 33°
- Feb 62° 36°
- Mar 69° 42°
- Apr 77° 49°
- May 84° 58°
- Jun 90° 67°
- Jul 93° 70°
- Aug 91° 70°
- Sep 86° 64°
- Oct 78° 52°
- Nov 68° 41°
- Dec 60° 36°
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 Milledgeville each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 93°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 33°F. The most precipitation falls in March (4.75 in), the least in October (2.83 in).
Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 58°F | 33°F | 45.5°F | 4.23 | 10 | <1 | 17 | 10 h 10 min |
| February | 62°F | 36°F | 49.0°F | 4.06 | 9 | <1 | 13 | 11 h |
| March | 69°F | 42°F | 55.6°F | 4.75 | 9 | <1 | 7 | 12 h |
| April | 77°F | 49°F | 62.7°F | 3.90 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 13 h |
| May | 84°F | 58°F | 71.0°F | 3.16 | 7 | 6 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| June | 90°F | 67°F | 78.2°F | 4.30 | 11 | 17 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| July | 93°F | 70°F | 81.8°F | 4.16 | 11 | 24 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| August | 91°F | 70°F | 80.6°F | 4.73 | 11 | 20 | <1 | 13 h 20 min |
| September | 86°F | 64°F | 75.1°F | 4.22 | 8 | 9 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 78°F | 52°F | 64.7°F | 2.83 | 7 | 1 | <1 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 68°F | 41°F | 54.2°F | 3.36 | 8 | <1 | 8 | 10 h 30 min |
| December | 60°F | 36°F | 48.1°F | 4.49 | 10 | <1 | 15 | 10 h |
| Year (annual) | 76°F | 51°F | 63.9°F | 48.19 | 108 | 78 | 60 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14°C | 1°C | 7.5°C | 107 mm |
| February | 17°C | 2°C | 9.4°C | 103 mm |
| March | 21°C | 5°C | 13.1°C | 121 mm |
| April | 25°C | 9°C | 17.1°C | 99 mm |
| May | 29°C | 14°C | 21.7°C | 80 mm |
| June | 32°C | 19°C | 25.7°C | 109 mm |
| July | 34°C | 21°C | 27.7°C | 106 mm |
| August | 33°C | 21°C | 27.0°C | 120 mm |
| September | 30°C | 18°C | 23.9°C | 107 mm |
| October | 25°C | 11°C | 18.2°C | 72 mm |
| November | 20°C | 5°C | 12.3°C | 85 mm |
| December | 16°C | 2°C | 8.9°C | 114 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00095874; 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 Milledgeville?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May, October and November. Of those, October has the fewest days with rain (7).
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 USC00095874.
When is the last frost in Milledgeville?
In Milledgeville, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 25 in half of years and after April 9 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 9 in half of years and before October 29 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 251 year in 10 after April 9; 9 in 10 after March 3
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 91 year in 10 before October 29; 9 in 10 before November 29
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 231 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 260 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 9 in half of springs and before November 21 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Milledgeville in zone 8b in ZIP code 31061, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Milledgeville's NOAA station is in zone 8b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 15°F (17 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Georgia · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00095874; 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 Milledgeville?
In a normal year in Milledgeville, 78 days a year reach 90°F (7 of them 100°F or more), 60 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 108 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 78a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 7a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 60a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- fewer than 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 108a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1891) is 110°F, on July 1, 2012; the lowest is −3°F, on January 22, 1985.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2013, with 68.61 in; the snowiest season is 1972–73, with 13.0 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00095874; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00095874. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Milledgeville?
Over a year 78% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Milledgeville, 4.6 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (81%) and February the cloudiest (71%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 75% | 2.8 |
| February | 71% | 3.4 |
| March | 74% | 4.5 |
| April | 79% | 5.6 |
| May | 80% | 6.2 |
| June | 81% | 6.3 |
| July | 81% | 6.1 |
| August | 80% | 5.5 |
| September | 79% | 4.8 |
| October | 80% | 4.0 |
| November | 79% | 3.1 |
| December | 72% | 2.4 |
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 Milledgeville need?
A normal year in Milledgeville brings 2,480 heating degree days, 54% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,103 cooling degree days, 2.3 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 5,652 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 606 | 2 |
| February | 450 | 2 |
| March | 309 | 19 |
| April | 127 | 60 |
| May | 22 | 208 |
| June | 0 | 398 |
| July | 0 | 519 |
| August | 0 | 484 |
| September | 5 | 307 |
| October | 97 | 89 |
| November | 337 | 12 |
| December | 527 | 3 |
| Year (annual) | 2,480 | 2,103 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00095874. 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 Milledgeville been warmer than normal lately?
Over 83 complete years from 1885 to 2015, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 1.0°F per century (+0.06°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Milledgeville's climate compare?
Milledgeville is warmer than 51 of the other 100 places with their own NOAA record in Georgia, and wetter than 20. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 63.9°F is warmer than 85%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Milledgeville 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 Milledgeville share this climate record?
3 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.
- Gray, GA3,541 people · 18 mi W
- Hardwick, GA3,226 people · 3 mi S
- Crooked Creek, GA569 people · 13 mi N
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 Milledgeville's climate
What is the coldest month in Milledgeville?
January, with a normal high of 58°F and a normal low of 33°F. The warmest is July (93°F by day, 70°F at night).
Does it snow in Milledgeville?
Rarely: NOAA's normal is 0.6 inch a year.
What is the rainiest month in Milledgeville?
March, with 4.75 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is October with 2.83 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Milledgeville in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Milledgeville in zone 8b in ZIP code 31061, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Milledgeville's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 15°F (17 years, 1991-2020): zone 8b.
How late can frost come in Milledgeville?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 25; in one year in ten it comes after April 9. Waiting until April 9 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Milledgeville in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- Georgia climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Irwinton, GA17 miles from this station, 64.8°F a year
- Sandersville, GA27 miles from this station, 63.9°F a year
- Monticello, GA31 miles from this station, 62.0°F a year
- Siloam, GA35 miles from this station, 61.9°F a year
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