Nashville, TN Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Nashville's primary NOAA station, NASHVILLE INTL AP.
The climate verdict for Nashville
Water is the standout signal in Nashville, Tennessee: 50.5 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 61°F. It scores 83/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 81% of them.
- 61°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 83/100
- comfort score, above 81% of station-mapped location scores
- 50.5"
- annual precipitation · 5" snow
- 217 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Nashville: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00013897 · Nashville, TN 61°F mean · 50.5" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 61°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,283
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Cartersville
- PRCP-WET 50.5"
- SWING-MID 41°F
- COMF-TOP 83/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USW00013897
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Cartersville, GA (+ 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 TN station list.
- Nashville (this station) 61°F
- Hot Columbia Ag Gum…, NC 61°F
- Near Cartersville, GA 61°F
- Near Chandler, OK 61°F
- Near Clarksville, AR 61°F
Climate Living Index · Nashville
Nashville: 64/100 · grade C
Nashville publishes all six Living Index dimensions from NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals · NOAA hourly normals.
PlainClimate-derived for Nashville, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 83/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 60.8°F · 6.7° from 67.5°F | 79/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 217 days/year | 76/100 · B |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 103 calendar days | 74/100 · B |
| Snowfall burden | 4.7 inches/year | 71/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 50.5 in · 15.5 from 35 in | 45/100 · D |
| Summer moisture balance | 66.5°F mean dew point | 28/100 · F |
Nashville · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Nashville is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfa
Coldest-month mean 39.6°F and warmest-month mean 80.7°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
- 80.7°F
- Coldest month
- 39.6°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 · balanced station
Where Nashville sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Nashville's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 23% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Nashville sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 18% wettest
- Nashville's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 41st percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Nashville compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Nashville's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
83 Top 19% score exceeds 81% 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%). Below this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). This entry sits in this band.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Nashville's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 149 complete annual observations from 1872 to 2025, NASHVILLE INTL AP cooled at a fitted rate of 0.03°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Nashville primary station fitted change -0.03 °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 | 49°F (10°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 4.0" | 2.0" | 18.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 54°F (12°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 4.5" | 1.5" | 14.2 | 0.0 |
| March | 63°F (17°C) | 40°F (5°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 4.5" | 0.7" | 7.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 73°F (23°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 4.7" | 0.0" | 0.9 | 0.1 |
| May | 80°F (27°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 5.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| June | 88°F (31°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 77°F (25°C) | 4.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 10.8 |
| July | 91°F (33°C) | 71°F (21°C) | 81°F (27°C) | 4.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 18.2 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 15.9 |
| September | 84°F (29°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 6.8 |
| October | 74°F (23°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 3.4" | 0.0" | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| November | 61°F (16°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 3.9" | 0.1" | 8.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 52°F (11°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 4.4" | 0.4" | 15.8 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Nashville works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 91°F by July 19 and hold at or above 90°F on 56 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 47 dates, bottoming at 30°F around January 20.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 29 through August 23, covering 56 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 7 to October 25.
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 10, then returns to freezing around December 26, covering 47 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 24, when 39% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is September 28 at 25%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 123 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 8 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 24°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Nashville.
Where Nashville Stands Nationally
The normal water year runs well above the national norm at roughly 51 inches.
Nashville earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 2.0"
10.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.5"
10.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.7"
11.6 days with precipitation
11.2 days with precipitation
11.6 days with precipitation
10.7 days with precipitation
10.3 days with precipitation
9.4 days with precipitation
7.8 days with precipitation
8.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
9.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
11.4 days with precipitation
Nashville 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 26%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Nashville has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 41.1°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: May averages 5.0" and October 3.4". The three wettest months together take 28% 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 Nashville, it arrives in quantity
50.5" of precipitation falls across only about 123 wet days here, averaging 0.41 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 123 a year, 34% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.41 inches
- Most wet days
- March, about 12
- Fewest wet days
- September, about 8
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 Nashville, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 4.7 inches of snow a year here, most likely in January. 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 3
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 31
50% probability date
Growing Season
217 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,364
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,873
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Humidity & Wind
Monthly averages from hourly observations
| Month | Humidity | Wind (mph) | Clear Sky % | Overcast % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 63% | 7.8 | 21% | 44% |
| February | 60% | 8.3 | 20% | 43% |
| March | 59% | 8.2 | 20% | 34% |
| April | 64% | 7.3 | 18% | 32% |
| May | 68% | 6.3 | 16% | 26% |
| June | 68% | 5.7 | 21% | 16% |
| July | 68% | 5.3 | 22% | 17% |
| August | 68% | 5.5 | 22% | 17% |
| September | 67% | 5.8 | 34% | 19% |
| October | 66% | 6.4 | 28% | 31% |
| November | 67% | 7.3 | 23% | 39% |
| December | 69% | 7.6 | 18% | 47% |
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside TN closest to Nashville 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 (61°F here).
- Cartersville, GA 61°F · 0.0°F off
- Chandler, OK 61°F · 0.0°F off
- Clarksville, AR 61°F · 0.0°F off
- Commerce, GA 61°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (50.5" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Covington, GA 50.5" · 0.0" off
- Jackson, MO 50.5" · 0.0" off
- Keo, AR 50.5" · 0.0" off
- Shrub Oak, NY 50.5" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Nashville's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · wet · mid swing
Water is prominent even though neither heating nor cooling wholly defines the record. Nashville averages 50.5 inches of precipitation a year. Annual snowfall totals 4.7 inches. The monthly table supplies the seasonal distribution hidden by that annual total.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Nashville's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 41.1°F. The annual average is 61°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Nashville's normal, at 3,364 and 1,873 degree days respectively. Neither total exceeds the other by more than two to one, so the record is better read as a mixed-demand calendar than as heating-led or cooling-led.
A roughly 217-day frost-free season sits inside this mixed heating-and-cooling profile. Start and end dates matter because both sides of the thermostat register during a normal year.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Nashville's primary station, where heating and cooling demand are close enough that neither season sets the character on its own. On a balanced station like Nashville, the bands are descriptive ranges rather than an official NOAA classification or a 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 Nashville's primary station: NASHVILLE INTL AP (USW00013897). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Nashville; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Nashville 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.