Prescott, Arkansas climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Prescott's normal year runs from 30°F January nights to 92°F July afternoons, with 56.6 inches of precipitation and 3 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 16.6°C, January lows of −1°C, July highs of 33°C, 1,437 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationPrescott (2 mi NNW)
- Station IDUSC00035908
- Location33.82°N 93.39°W
- Elevation308 ft (94 m)
- Population2,970
On October 22, the normal high in Prescott is 73°F and the normal low 48°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 27%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Prescott.
- Jan 53° 30°
- Feb 58° 33°
- Mar 66° 40°
- Apr 74° 49°
- May 81° 59°
- Jun 88° 67°
- Jul 92° 70°
- Aug 92° 69°
- Sep 86° 62°
- Oct 76° 50°
- Nov 64° 39°
- Dec 55° 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 Prescott each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 92°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 30°F. The most precipitation falls in May (5.86 in), the least in August (3.37 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 53°F | 30°F | 41.5°F | 4.33 | 1.4 | 9 | <1 | 19 | 10 h 10 min |
| February | 58°F | 33°F | 45.4°F | 4.75 | 0.9 | 10 | <1 | 13 | 11 h |
| March | 66°F | 40°F | 53.3°F | 5.46 | 0.2 | 10 | <1 | 6 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 74°F | 49°F | 61.4°F | 5.46 | 0.0 | 9 | <1 | 1 | 13 h |
| May | 81°F | 59°F | 69.7°F | 5.86 | 0.0 | 10 | 2 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| June | 88°F | 67°F | 77.4°F | 4.01 | 0.0 | 8 | 13 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| July | 92°F | 70°F | 80.9°F | 4.43 | 0.0 | 7 | 22 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| August | 92°F | 69°F | 80.5°F | 3.37 | 0.0 | 7 | 21 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| September | 86°F | 62°F | 74.1°F | 3.94 | 0.0 | 6 | 10 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 76°F | 50°F | 62.8°F | 5.07 | 0.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 64°F | 39°F | 51.6°F | 4.54 | 0.0 | 9 | <1 | 7 | 10 h 30 min |
| December | 55°F | 32°F | 43.8°F | 5.36 | 0.1 | 9 | <1 | 16 | 10 h |
| Year (annual) | 74°F | 50°F | 61.9°F | 56.58 | 2.6 | 102 | 69 | 62 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12°C | −1°C | 5.3°C | 110 mm | 4 cm |
| February | 14°C | 1°C | 7.4°C | 121 mm | 2 cm |
| March | 19°C | 5°C | 11.8°C | 139 mm | 1 cm |
| April | 24°C | 9°C | 16.3°C | 139 mm | 0 cm |
| May | 27°C | 15°C | 20.9°C | 149 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 31°C | 19°C | 25.2°C | 102 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 33°C | 21°C | 27.2°C | 113 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 33°C | 21°C | 26.9°C | 86 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 30°C | 17°C | 23.4°C | 100 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 24°C | 10°C | 17.1°C | 129 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 18°C | 4°C | 10.9°C | 115 mm | 0 cm |
| December | 13°C | 0°C | 6.6°C | 136 mm | 0 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00035908; 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 Prescott?
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 USC00035908.
When is the last frost in Prescott?
In Prescott, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 29 in half of years and after April 15 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 6 in half of years and before October 23 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 291 year in 10 after April 15; 9 in 10 after March 9
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 61 year in 10 before October 23; 9 in 10 before November 22
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 224 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 247 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 14 in half of springs and before November 16 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Prescott in zone 8a in ZIP code 71857, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Prescott's NOAA station is in zone 8a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 13°F (26 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 USC00035908; 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 Prescott?
In a normal year in Prescott, 69 days a year reach 90°F (6 of them 100°F or more), 62 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 102 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 69a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 6a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 62a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 2high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 102a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 1a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1890) is 119°F, on August 4, 1897; the lowest is −9°F, on February 16, 2021.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2009, with 93.08 in; the snowiest season is 1947–48, with 24.2 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00035908; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00035908. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Prescott?
Over a year 77% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Prescott, 4.5 kWh per square metre a day. August is the sunniest month (84%) and February the cloudiest (64%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 70% | 2.6 |
| February | 64% | 3.0 |
| March | 70% | 4.2 |
| April | 75% | 5.3 |
| May | 76% | 5.8 |
| June | 82% | 6.5 |
| July | 83% | 6.3 |
| August | 84% | 5.9 |
| September | 82% | 5.0 |
| October | 79% | 4.0 |
| November | 75% | 2.9 |
| 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 Prescott need?
A normal year in Prescott brings 3,055 heating degree days, 43% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,944 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 5,262 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 729 | 1 |
| February | 552 | 2 |
| March | 371 | 10 |
| April | 152 | 46 |
| May | 30 | 176 |
| June | 0 | 374 |
| July | 0 | 493 |
| August | 0 | 479 |
| September | 10 | 282 |
| October | 140 | 73 |
| November | 412 | 8 |
| December | 658 | 1 |
| Year (annual) | 3,055 | 1,944 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00035908. 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 Prescott been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 63.0°F, 1.1°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 61.9°F.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63.0°F | +1.1°F | 56.33 | 0.2 |
Over 96 complete years from 1899 to 2023, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted -0.7°F per century (−0.04°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00035908; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Prescott's climate compare?
Prescott is warmer than 54 of the other 85 places with their own NOAA record in Arkansas, and wetter than 76. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 61.9°F is warmer than 80%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Prescott 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 Prescott share this climate record?
9 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.
- Gurdon, AR1,824 people · 15 mi NE
- Rosston, AR265 people · 17 mi S
- Antoine, AR112 people · 15 mi N
- Bluff City, AR112 people · 16 mi E
- Okolona, AR100 people · 13 mi N
- Reader, AR78 people · 17 mi E
- Cale, AR75 people · 16 mi SE
- Whelen Springs, AR44 people · 15 mi E
- Beirne, AR0 people · 11 mi NE
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 Prescott's climate
What is the coldest month in Prescott?
January, with a normal high of 53°F and a normal low of 30°F. The warmest is July (92°F by day, 70°F at night).
Does it snow in Prescott?
Yes: 3 inches in a normal year, falling on 1 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in January (1.4 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Prescott?
May, with 5.86 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is August with 3.37 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Prescott in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Prescott in zone 8a in ZIP code 71857, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Prescott's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 13°F (26 years, 1991-2020): zone 8a.
How late can frost come in Prescott?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 29; in one year in ten it comes after April 15. Waiting until April 15 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Arkansas climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Hope, AR12 miles from this station, 62.4°F a year
- Murfreesboro, AR25 miles from this station, 60.1°F a year
- Nashville, AR27 miles from this station, 63.2°F a year
- Arkadelphia, AR29 miles from this station, 63.2°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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