Savannah, Tennessee climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Savannah's normal year runs from 30°F January nights to 91°F July afternoons, with 59.2 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 16.4°C, January lows of −1°C, July highs of 33°C, 1,503 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationSavannah (6 mi SW)
- Station IDUSC00408108
- Location35.15°N 88.32°W
- Elevation420 ft (128 m)
- Population7,565
On October 22, the normal high in Savannah is 74°F and the normal low 47°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 29%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Savannah.
- Jan 51° 30°
- Feb 56° 33°
- Mar 65° 40°
- Apr 74° 49°
- May 81° 59°
- Jun 88° 67°
- Jul 91° 70°
- Aug 91° 69°
- Sep 86° 61°
- Oct 76° 49°
- Nov 64° 40°
- Dec 54° 34°
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 Savannah each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 91°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 30°F. The most precipitation falls in May (6.19 in), the least in October (3.88 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 51°F | 30°F | 40.7°F | 4.88 | 11 | <1 | 19 | 10 h |
| February | 56°F | 33°F | 44.4°F | 5.36 | 11 | <1 | 15 | 10 h 50 min |
| March | 65°F | 40°F | 52.6°F | 5.64 | 12 | <1 | 8 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 74°F | 49°F | 61.5°F | 5.73 | 11 | <1 | 2 | 13 h |
| May | 81°F | 59°F | 70.0°F | 6.19 | 11 | 3 | <1 | 14 h |
| June | 88°F | 67°F | 77.4°F | 4.40 | 10 | 13 | <1 | 14 h 30 min |
| July | 91°F | 70°F | 80.7°F | 4.91 | 10 | 21 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| August | 91°F | 69°F | 79.7°F | 4.11 | 9 | 19 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| September | 86°F | 61°F | 73.5°F | 4.28 | 7 | 9 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 76°F | 49°F | 62.5°F | 3.88 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 64°F | 40°F | 51.7°F | 4.19 | 10 | <1 | 9 | 10 h 20 min |
| December | 54°F | 34°F | 43.7°F | 5.61 | 12 | <1 | 17 | 9 h 50 min |
| Year (annual) | 73°F | 50°F | 61.5°F | 59.18 | 122 | 66 | 72 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11°C | −1°C | 4.8°C | 124 mm |
| February | 13°C | 1°C | 6.9°C | 136 mm |
| March | 18°C | 5°C | 11.4°C | 143 mm |
| April | 23°C | 10°C | 16.4°C | 146 mm |
| May | 27°C | 15°C | 21.1°C | 157 mm |
| June | 31°C | 19°C | 25.2°C | 112 mm |
| July | 33°C | 21°C | 27.1°C | 125 mm |
| August | 33°C | 20°C | 26.5°C | 104 mm |
| September | 30°C | 16°C | 23.1°C | 109 mm |
| October | 24°C | 10°C | 16.9°C | 99 mm |
| November | 18°C | 4°C | 10.9°C | 106 mm |
| December | 12°C | 1°C | 6.5°C | 142 mm |
NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for this station. The nearest record that keeps one, Selmer (16 miles away), gets 1 inches of snow in a normal year; elevation and distance can change that.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00408108; 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 Savannah?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in 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 USC00408108.
When is the last frost in Savannah?
In Savannah, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 31 in half of years and after April 15 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 1 in half of years and before October 18 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 311 year in 10 after April 15; 9 in 10 after March 13
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 11 year in 10 before October 18; 9 in 10 before November 16
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 212 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 236 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 18 in half of springs and before November 11 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Savannah in zone 7b in ZIP code 38327, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Savannah's NOAA station is in zone 7b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 8°F (28 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Tennessee · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00408108; 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 Savannah?
In a normal year in Savannah, 66 days a year reach 90°F (3 of them 100°F or more), 72 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 122 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 66a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 3a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 72a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 3high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 122a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1895) is 112°F, on July 29, 1930; the lowest is −13°F, on January 21, 1985.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1991, with 87.58 in; the snowiest season is 1963–64, with 34.1 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00408108; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00408108. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Savannah?
Over a year 76% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Savannah, 4.4 kWh per square metre a day. June is the sunniest month (82%) and February the cloudiest (64%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 68% | 2.4 |
| February | 64% | 2.9 |
| March | 68% | 4.0 |
| April | 74% | 5.3 |
| May | 76% | 5.9 |
| June | 82% | 6.5 |
| July | 82% | 6.3 |
| August | 82% | 5.7 |
| September | 81% | 4.9 |
| October | 77% | 3.8 |
| November | 74% | 2.8 |
| December | 66% | 2.1 |
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 Savannah need?
A normal year in Savannah brings 3,157 heating degree days, 41% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,930 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 5,231 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 754 | 0 |
| February | 580 | 1 |
| March | 396 | 13 |
| April | 164 | 60 |
| May | 34 | 189 |
| June | 1 | 371 |
| July | 0 | 487 |
| August | 0 | 457 |
| September | 13 | 268 |
| October | 148 | 72 |
| November | 408 | 9 |
| December | 660 | 1 |
| Year (annual) | 3,157 | 1,930 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00408108. 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 Savannah been warmer than normal lately?
2023 averaged 63.1°F, 1.6°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 61.5°F. 1 of the 3 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 61.5°F | at normal | 75.10 |
| 2022 | 61.0°F | −0.5°F | 53.13 |
| 2023 | 63.1°F | +1.6°F | 49.50 |
Over 56 complete years from 1949 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 1.0°F per century (+0.06°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00408108; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Savannah's climate compare?
Savannah is warmer than 111 of the other 115 places with their own NOAA record in Tennessee, and wetter than 88. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 61.5°F is warmer than 78%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Savannah 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 Savannah share this climate record?
12 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.
- Adamsville, TN2,074 people · 7 mi NW
- Farmington, MS2,022 people · 17 mi SW
- Olivet, TN1,609 people · 8 mi NE
- Crump, TN933 people · 5 mi N
- Saltillo, TN430 people · 16 mi N
- Counce, TN352 people · 8 mi S
- Stantonville, TN342 people · 6 mi W
- Nixon, TN289 people · 4 mi SE
- Milledgeville, TN275 people · 16 mi N
- Morris Chapel, TN235 people · 11 mi N
- Shiloh, TN110 people · 4 mi SW
- Childers Hill, TN18 people · 5 mi S
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 Savannah's climate
What is the coldest month in Savannah?
January, with a normal high of 51°F and a normal low of 30°F. The warmest is July (91°F by day, 70°F at night).
Does it snow in Savannah?
Yes. NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for Savannah's NOAA station; the nearest record that keeps one, Selmer (16 miles away), records 1 inches of snow in a normal year.
What is the rainiest month in Savannah?
May, with 6.19 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is October with 3.88 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Savannah in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Savannah in zone 7b in ZIP code 38327, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Savannah's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 8°F (28 years, 1991-2020): zone 7b.
How late can frost come in Savannah?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 31; 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
- Tennessee climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Selmer, TN16 miles from this station, 60.4°F a year
- Corinth, MS25 miles from this station, 60.5°F a year
- Iuka, MS28 miles from this station, 59.0°F a year
- Henderson, TN30 miles from this station, 58.1°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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