Sandhill Rsch - Elgin, SC Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Sandhill Rsch - Elgin's primary NOAA station, SANDHILL RSCH - ELGIN.
The climate verdict for Sandhill Rsch - Elgin
Water is the standout signal in Sandhill Rsch - Elgin, South Carolina: 46.3 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 64°F. It scores 93/100 for climate comfort (excellent), putting it in the top third of station-mapped location scores and exceeding 93% of them.
- 64°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 93/100
- comfort score, above 93% of station-mapped location scores
- 46.3"
- annual precipitation
- 238 days
- frost-free growing season
Sandhill Rsch - Elgin: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00387666 · Sandhill Rsch - Elgin, SC 64°F mean · 46.3" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-TOP · LOAD-MIX · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 64°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,763
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Alvord
- PRCP-MID 46.3"
- SWING-MID 37°F
- COMF-TOP 93/100
- LOAD-MIX H/C balanced
- STN-1 USC00387666
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 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 SC station list.
- Sandhill Rsch -… (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
Climate Living Index · Sandhill Rsch - Elgin
Sandhill Rsch - Elgin: 82/100 · grade B
Sandhill Rsch - Elgin publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Sandhill Rsch - Elgin, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 93/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 63.5°F · 4.0° from 67.5°F | 88/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 62 calendar days | 88/100 · A |
| Snowfall burden | 0.4 inches/year | 87/100 · A |
| Frost-free season | 238 days/year | 84/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 46.3 in · 11.3 from 35 in | 60/100 · C |
Sandhill Rsch - Elgin · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Sandhill Rsch - Elgin is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfa
Coldest-month mean 44.8°F and warmest-month mean 81.6°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
- 81.6°F
- Coldest month
- 44.8°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 Sandhill Rsch - Elgin sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Sandhill Rsch - Elgin's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 16% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Sandhill Rsch - Elgin sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 29% wettest
- Sandhill Rsch - Elgin's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 78%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Sandhill Rsch - Elgin is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Sandhill Rsch - Elgin compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Sandhill Rsch - Elgin's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
93 Top 7% score exceeds 93% 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%). Below this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). This entry sits in this band.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Sandhill Rsch - Elgin's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 38 complete annual observations from 1958 to 2015, SANDHILL RSCH - ELGIN warmed at a fitted rate of 0.11°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Sandhill Rsch - Elgin primary station fitted change +0.11 °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 | 56°F (13°C) | 33°F (1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 3.7" | 0.4" | 15.1 | 0.0 |
| February | 60°F (16°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 3.6" | 0.0" | 10.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 67°F (20°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 3.8" | 0.0" | 5.2 | 0.0 |
| April | 76°F (24°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 3.2" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 0.7 |
| May | 83°F (28°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 3.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 6.1 |
| June | 89°F (32°C) | 67°F (20°C) | 78°F (26°C) | 4.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 15.5 |
| July | 93°F (34°C) | 71°F (22°C) | 82°F (28°C) | 4.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 23.7 |
| August | 91°F (33°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 4.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 18.6 |
| September | 85°F (30°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 75°F (24°C) | 4.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 7.8 |
| October | 76°F (25°C) | 53°F (11°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 3.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| November | 66°F (19°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 3.0" | 0.0" | 4.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 59°F (15°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 4.1" | 0.0" | 11.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
The year in Sandhill Rsch - Elgin runs from a mild 33°F around January 16 to 93°F at the peak near July 13, and the normal low never reaches freezing on any date in the record.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from June 21 through August 21, covering 62 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs March 27 to November 3.
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.
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 33°F around January 16.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is July 30, when 32% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is November 6 at 19%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 95 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 10 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 Sandhill Rsch - Elgin.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 0.4"
8.5 days with precipitation
7.9 days with precipitation
8.1 days with precipitation
7.2 days with precipitation
7.0 days with precipitation
9.1 days with precipitation
9.3 days with precipitation
9.3 days with precipitation
7.5 days with precipitation
6.2 days with precipitation
6.0 days with precipitation
8.2 days with precipitation
Sandhill Rsch - Elgin spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 30% of the annual total and December through February 25%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Sandhill Rsch - Elgin has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 36.8°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: August averages 4.7" and November 3.0". The three wettest months together take 30% 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 Sandhill Rsch - Elgin, it arrives in quantity
46.3" of precipitation falls across only about 94 wet days here, averaging 0.49 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 94 a year, 26% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.49 inches
- Most wet days
- July, about 9
- Fewest wet days
- November, 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.
Snow reaches Sandhill Rsch - Elgin, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 0.4 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.
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 15
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 22
50% probability date
Growing Season
238 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
2,573
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
2,076
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside SC closest to Sandhill Rsch - Elgin 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
- Bonham, TX 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Jacksboro, TX 64°F · 0.0°F off
- Louisville, MS 64°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (46.3" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Dobbins, CA 46.3" · 0.0" off
- Bedford, VA 46.3" · 0.0" off
- Greenwood, DE 46.3" · 0.0" off
- Bolivar, MO 46.4" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Sandhill Rsch - Elgin's climate pattern fits together
mixed demand · wet · mid swing
Water is prominent even though neither heating nor cooling wholly defines the record. Sandhill Rsch - Elgin averages 46.3 inches of precipitation a year. Recorded annual snowfall is negligible. 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 Sandhill Rsch - Elgin's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 36.8°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 Sandhill Rsch - Elgin's normal, at 2,573 and 2,076 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 238-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 Sandhill Rsch - Elgin'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 Sandhill Rsch - Elgin, 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 Sandhill Rsch - Elgin's primary station: SANDHILL RSCH - ELGIN (USC00387666). 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 Sandhill Rsch - Elgin; 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 Sandhill Rsch - Elgin 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.