Rockford, AL Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Rockford's primary NOAA station, ROCKFORD 3 ESE.
The climate verdict for Rockford
Water is the standout signal in Rockford, Alabama: 60.2 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 63°F. Its climate comfort score of 68/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 56% of station-mapped location scores.
- 63°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 68/100
- comfort score, above 56% of station-mapped location scores
- 60.2"
- precipitation, annual total
- 231 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Rockford: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00017020 · Rockford, AL 63°F mean · 60.2" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 63°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,557
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Antioch Pumping…
- PRCP-WET 60.2"
- SWING-MID 34°F
- COMF-MID 68/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00017020
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Antioch Pumping Plt, CA (+ 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 AL station list.
- Rockford (this station) 63°F
- Hot Carlsbad Palomar, CA 63°F
- Near Antioch Pumping…, CA 63°F
- Near Camarillo, CA 63°F
- Near Camp Pardee, CA 63°F
Climate Living Index · Rockford
Rockford: 75/100 · grade B
Rockford publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Rockford, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 68/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 0 calendar days | 100/100 · A |
| Annual temperature balance | 62.5°F · 5.0° from 67.5°F | 85/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 231 days/year | 81/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 60.2 in · 25.2 from 35 in | 12/100 · F |
Rockford · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Rockford is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfa
Coldest-month mean 44.6°F and warmest-month mean 79.0°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
- 79.0°F
- Coldest month
- 44.6°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 Rockford sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Rockford's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 19% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Rockford sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 5% wettest
- Rockford's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 84%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Rockford is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Rockford compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Rockford's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
68 Top 44% score exceeds 56% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 55°F (13°C) | 35°F (1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 5.7" | 13.6 | 0.0 |
| February | 60°F (15°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 5.8" | 10.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 67°F (20°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 5.9" | 4.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 75°F (24°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 5.2" | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| May | 81°F (27°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 4.8" | 0.0 | 2.1 |
| June | 86°F (30°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 4.5" | 0.0 | 11.9 |
| July | 89°F (32°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 5.3" | 0.0 | 15.9 |
| August | 87°F (31°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 78°F (26°C) | 5.1" | 0.0 | 12.2 |
| September | 83°F (28°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 3.8" | 0.0 | 3.7 |
| October | 74°F (23°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 3.6" | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| November | 64°F (18°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 5.0" | 5.5 | 0.0 |
| December | 57°F (14°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 5.5" | 11.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The calendar barely moves in Rockford: no date carries a normal high of 90°F or a normal low at freezing. The year runs between 34°F near January 13 and 89°F near July 11.
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 34°F around January 13.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is July 15, when 35% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is October 2 at 20%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 105 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 11 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 26°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Rockford.
Where Rockford Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 60 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Rockford 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
9.4 days with precipitation
10.1 days with precipitation
8.6 days with precipitation
8.1 days with precipitation
8.2 days with precipitation
9.2 days with precipitation
11.1 days with precipitation
10.4 days with precipitation
6.2 days with precipitation
6.1 days with precipitation
6.9 days with precipitation
9.8 days with precipitation
Rockford spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 25% of the annual total and December through February 28%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Rockford has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 34.4°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: March averages 5.9" and October 3.6". The three wettest months together take 29% 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 Rockford, it arrives in quantity
60.2" of precipitation falls across only about 104 wet days here, averaging 0.58 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 104 a year, 29% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.58 inches
- Most wet days
- July, about 11
- Fewest wet days
- October, about 6
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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 11
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 25
50% probability date
Growing Season
231 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,611
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,724
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AL closest to Rockford 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 (63°F here).
- Camarillo, CA 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Grenada, MS 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Lambert, MS 63°F · 0.0°F off
- Lumberton, NC 63°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (60.2" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Hackberry, LA 60.1" · 0.0" off
- Wilmington, NC 60.1" · 0.0" off
- Natchez, MS 60.1" · 0.1" off
- Townsend, TN 60.3" · 0.1" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Rockford's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · wet · mid swing
Water is prominent even though neither heating nor cooling wholly defines the record. Rockford averages 60.2 inches of precipitation a year. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. 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 Rockford's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 34.4°F. The annual average is 63°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Heating and cooling both register in Rockford's normal, at 2,611 and 1,724 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 231-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 Rockford'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 Rockford, 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 Rockford's primary station: ROCKFORD 3 ESE (USC00017020). 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 0165472). Match rule for Rockford: 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 Rockford 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.