Montgomery, Alabama climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Montgomery's normal year runs from 37°F January nights to 94°F July afternoons, with 51.2 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 19.1°C, January lows of 3°C, July highs of 34°C, 1,299 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationMontgomery Airport
- Station IDUSW00013895
- Location32.30°N 86.41°W
- Elevation202 ft (62 m)
- From the center9 miles
- Population195,818
On October 23, the normal high in Montgomery is 78°F and the normal low 51°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 22%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Montgomery.
- Jan 60° 37°
- Feb 65° 40°
- Mar 72° 47°
- Apr 79° 53°
- May 86° 61°
- Jun 92° 69°
- Jul 94° 72°
- Aug 94° 71°
- Sep 89° 66°
- Oct 80° 55°
- Nov 70° 43°
- Dec 62° 39°
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 Montgomery each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 94°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 37°F. The most precipitation falls in March (5.21 in), the least in October (2.87 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 | 60°F | 37°F | 48.1°F | 4.64 | 10 | <1 | 13 | 10 h 10 min |
| February | 65°F | 40°F | 52.6°F | 4.88 | 10 | <1 | 7 | 11 h |
| March | 72°F | 47°F | 59.2°F | 5.21 | 9 | <1 | 2 | 12 h |
| April | 79°F | 53°F | 65.7°F | 3.99 | 8 | <1 | <1 | 13 h |
| May | 86°F | 61°F | 73.6°F | 3.88 | 8 | 7 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| June | 92°F | 69°F | 80.2°F | 4.08 | 10 | 19 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| July | 94°F | 72°F | 82.9°F | 5.06 | 12 | 26 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| August | 94°F | 71°F | 82.5°F | 4.02 | 10 | 25 | <1 | 13 h 20 min |
| September | 89°F | 66°F | 77.8°F | 3.69 | 7 | 14 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 80°F | 55°F | 67.4°F | 2.87 | 6 | 2 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 70°F | 43°F | 56.6°F | 3.85 | 7 | <1 | 5 | 10 h 30 min |
| December | 62°F | 39°F | 50.2°F | 4.99 | 10 | <1 | 10 | 10 h |
| Year (annual) | 78°F | 54°F | 66.4°F | 51.16 | 107 | 93 | 37 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15°C | 3°C | 8.9°C | 118 mm |
| February | 18°C | 5°C | 11.4°C | 124 mm |
| March | 22°C | 8°C | 15.1°C | 132 mm |
| April | 26°C | 11°C | 18.7°C | 101 mm |
| May | 30°C | 16°C | 23.1°C | 99 mm |
| June | 33°C | 21°C | 26.8°C | 104 mm |
| July | 34°C | 22°C | 28.3°C | 129 mm |
| August | 34°C | 22°C | 28.1°C | 102 mm |
| September | 32°C | 19°C | 25.4°C | 94 mm |
| October | 27°C | 13°C | 19.7°C | 73 mm |
| November | 21°C | 6°C | 13.7°C | 98 mm |
| December | 17°C | 4°C | 10.1°C | 127 mm |
NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for this station, and no record within 25 miles keeps one, so snow is left out here rather than estimated.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00013895; 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 Montgomery?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, October and November. Of those, October has the fewest days with rain (6).
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 USW00013895.
When is the last frost in Montgomery?
In Montgomery, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 13 in half of years and after March 31 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 13 in half of years and before October 31 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 131 year in 10 after March 31; 9 in 10 after February 20
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 131 year in 10 before October 31; 9 in 10 before December 1
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 244 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 272 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after February 27 in half of springs and before November 25 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Montgomery in zone 8b across its 13 ZIP code areas (8b in 36108, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Montgomery's NOAA station is in zone 8b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 17°F (30 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Alabama · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USW00013895; 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.
What hardiness zone is each Montgomery ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Montgomery's 13 ZIP code areas are all in zone 8b. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.
Source: USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; ZIP areas in the place: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) lies in the place.
How hot and how cold does it get in Montgomery?
In a normal year in Montgomery, 93 days a year reach 90°F (4 of them 100°F or more), 37 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 107 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 93a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 4a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 37a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- fewer than 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 107a normal year
The highest temperature in Montgomery's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1872) is 107°F, on July 7, 1881; the lowest is −5°F, on February 13, 1899.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1929, with 78.25 in; the snowiest season is 1886–87, with 12.7 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00013895; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), NWS threaded record MGMthr. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How humid and windy is Montgomery, and how clear are its skies?
The summer (June-August) dew point averages 70°F. The muggiest month is July, with an average dew point of 71°F, above the 65°F at which most people call the air sticky; the driest air comes in January (37°F). February is the windiest month (7.6 mph on average), and October has the most clear or nearly clear hours (64%).
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Afternoon humidity | Wind | Clear or few clouds | Overcast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 37°F | 66% | 44% | 6.9 mph | 55% | 33% |
| February | 42°F | 64% | 43% | 7.6 mph | 52% | 32% |
| March | 49°F | 64% | 42% | 6.8 mph | 58% | 23% |
| April | 56°F | 68% | 45% | 6.0 mph | 62% | 17% |
| May | 66°F | 71% | 49% | 5.2 mph | 58% | 15% |
| June | 70°F | 72% | 52% | 4.8 mph | 60% | 12% |
| July | 71°F | 74% | 54% | 4.5 mph | 61% | 10% |
| August | 69°F | 72% | 51% | 5.1 mph | 61% | 14% |
| September | 61°F | 70% | 47% | 5.7 mph | 64% | 17% |
| October | 50°F | 70% | 45% | 5.4 mph | 64% | 19% |
| November | 42°F | 70% | 47% | 5.9 mph | 59% | 26% |
| December | 39°F | 71% | 52% | 6.8 mph | 52% | 34% |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 hourly normals, station USW00013895. Monthly averages of all hours; afternoon humidity at 3 p.m. local standard time; sky as the share of hours NOAA's observations rate clear or few clouds (a dash where NOAA publishes no sky value).
How sunny is Montgomery?
Over a year 78% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Montgomery, 4.6 kWh per square metre a day. May is the sunniest month (81%) and February the cloudiest (69%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 210th (with 32 others) in sunshine.
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 73% | 2.8 |
| February | 69% | 3.4 |
| March | 74% | 4.5 |
| April | 79% | 5.7 |
| May | 81% | 6.3 |
| June | 81% | 6.3 |
| July | 81% | 6.1 |
| August | 81% | 5.6 |
| September | 81% | 5.0 |
| October | 80% | 4.1 |
| November | 79% | 3.2 |
| December | 70% | 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 Montgomery need?
A normal year in Montgomery brings 2,000 heating degree days, 63% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,540 cooling degree days, 2.8 times the median (908). Three months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 6,413 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 526 | 4 |
| February | 359 | 10 |
| March | 218 | 38 |
| April | 75 | 96 |
| May | 9 | 277 |
| June | 0 | 457 |
| July | 0 | 555 |
| August | 0 | 542 |
| September | 2 | 386 |
| October | 71 | 143 |
| November | 277 | 24 |
| December | 464 | 7 |
| Year (annual) | 2,000 | 2,540 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00013895. 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 Montgomery been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 66.1°F, 0.3°F below the 1991-2020 normal of 66.4°F. 4 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 66.9°F | +0.5°F | 56.32 |
| 2022 | 66.6°F | +0.2°F | 55.52 |
| 2023 | 68.1°F | +1.7°F | 47.51 |
| 2024 | 67.5°F | +1.1°F | 51.35 |
| 2025 | 66.1°F | −0.3°F | 45.07 |
Over 76 complete years from 1948 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.7°F per century (+0.15°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00013895; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Montgomery's climate compare?
Montgomery is warmer than 67 of the other 79 places with their own NOAA record in Alabama, and wetter than 1. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 66.4°F is warmer than 91%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Montgomery 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 Montgomery share this climate record?
12 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.
- Prattville, AL40,139 people · 11 mi N
- Millbrook, AL17,392 people · 14 mi N
- Pike Road, AL11,500 people · 17 mi E
- Pine Level, AL4,228 people · 20 mi N
- Deatsville, AL1,707 people · 20 mi N
- Elmore, AL1,356 people · 18 mi N
- Coosada, AL1,299 people · 14 mi N
- Autaugaville, AL815 people · 17 mi NW
- Mosses, AL773 people · 18 mi SW
- Hayneville, AL747 people · 13 mi SW
- Gordonville, AL224 people · 20 mi SW
- Lowndesboro, AL76 people · 12 mi W
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
What do Montgomery's other NOAA stations record?
One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Montgomery. This page uses Montgomery Airport; the other differs by site and elevation:
| Station | From the center | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery (6 mi SW) USC00015553 | 7 mi SE | 225 ft | 67.9°F | 40°F | 94°F | 51.8 | – | March 4 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for each station. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
Questions about Montgomery's climate
What is the coldest month in Montgomery?
January, with a normal high of 60°F and a normal low of 37°F. The warmest is July (94°F by day, 72°F at night).
What is the rainiest month in Montgomery?
March, with 5.21 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is October with 2.87 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Montgomery in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Montgomery in zone 8b across its 13 ZIP code areas (8b in 36108, the largest). By the same method at Montgomery's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 17°F (30 years, 1991-2020): zone 8b.
How late can frost come in Montgomery?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 13; in one year in ten it comes after March 31. Waiting until March 31 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
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- Highland Home #2, AL25 miles from this station, 65.2°F a year
- Highland Home (2 mi S), AL27 miles from this station, 65.1°F a year
- Highland Home, AL30 miles from this station, 62.2°F a year
- Milstead, AL32 miles from this station, 63.2°F a year
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