Pickens, MS Climate: Temperature by Month
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30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Pickens's primary NOAA station, PICKENS.
The climate verdict for Pickens
Pickens, Mississippi has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 64°F. July is the warmest month at 80°F and January the coldest at 45°F.
- 64°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 239 days
- frost-free growing season
Pickens: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00226926 · Pickens, MS 64°F mean
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-MILD 64°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,763
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alvord
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 35°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00226926
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Alvord, TX (+ 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 MS station list.
- Pickens (this station) 64°F
- Hot Ash Mtn, CA 64°F
- Near Alvord, TX 64°F
- Near Andrews, SC 64°F
- Near Arkansas Post, AR 64°F
Pickens sits in Mississippi, the #5 hottest U.S. state at 64.1°F statewide annual average - see all 50 hottest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Pickens
Pickens: 92/100 · grade A
Pickens publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Pickens, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 0 calendar days | 100/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 63.5°F · 4.0° from 67.5°F | 88/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 239 days/year | 84/100 · B |
Pickens · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · balanced station
Where Pickens sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Pickens are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Top 16% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Pickens sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 83%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Pickens is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 56°F (13°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 45°F (7°C) | N/A | 15.5 | 0.0 |
| February | 61°F (16°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 49°F (10°C) | N/A | 12.3 | 0.0 |
| March | 69°F (20°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 57°F (14°C) | N/A | 4.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 74°F (23°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 63°F (17°C) | N/A | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 81°F (27°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 71°F (22°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.9 |
| June | 87°F (31°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 77°F (25°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 10.7 |
| July | 89°F (32°C) | 71°F (21°C) | 80°F (27°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 18.3 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 79°F (26°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 19.3 |
| September | 86°F (30°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 75°F (24°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 7.6 |
| October | 76°F (25°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 64°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| November | 66°F (19°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 54°F (12°C) | N/A | 6.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 59°F (15°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 48°F (9°C) | N/A | 15.1 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The calendar barely moves in Pickens: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 35°F near January 22 and 90°F near August 7.
No freezing date
Not one calendar date in the 1991–2020 record carries a normal low at or below 32°F. The coldest normal low of the year is 35°F around January 22.
The widest day
October 22 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 25°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Pickens.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 8
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 14
50% probability date
Growing Season
239 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,487
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,975
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MS closest to Pickens 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 (64°F here).
- Alvord, TX 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Andrews, SC 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Bonham, TX 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Hemingway, SC 64°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Pickens's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · mid swing
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Pickens's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 34.5°F. The annual average is 64°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Pickens's normal, at 2,487 and 1,975 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 239-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.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Pickens's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Pickens'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 Pickens, the bands are descriptive ranges rather than an official NOAA classification or a forecast.
Questions about Pickens's climate
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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 Pickens's primary station: PICKENS (USC00226926). 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 an incorporated place (GEOID 2857200). Match rule for Pickens: 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 Pickens 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.