Sperryville, VA 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 Sperryville's primary NOAA station, SPERRYVILLE.
The climate verdict for Sperryville
Water is the standout signal in Sperryville, Virginia: 48.8 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 54°F. Its climate comfort score of 63/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 46% of station-mapped location scores.
- 54°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 63/100
- comfort score, above 46% of station-mapped location scores
- 48.8"
- annual precipitation · 21" snow
- 194 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Sperryville: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00447985 · Sperryville, VA 54°F mean · 48.8" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 54°F
- RANK-MID #3,979
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Painted Desert…
- PRCP-MID 48.8"
- SWING-MID 41°F
- COMF-MID 63/100
- LOAD-HEAT 4,810 HDD
- STN-1 USC00447985
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Painted Desert National Park, AZ (+ 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 VA station list.
- Sperryville (this station) 54°F
- Hot RD Bailey Lake, WV 54°F
- Near Painted Desert…, AZ 54°F
- Near Kim, CO 54°F
- Near Tazewell, TN 54°F
Climate Living Index · Sperryville
Sperryville: 59/100 · grade C
Sperryville publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Sperryville, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 63/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 113 calendar days | 69/100 · C |
| Frost-free season | 194 days/year | 60/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 54.2°F · 13.3° from 67.5°F | 57/100 · C |
| Precipitation balance | 48.8 in · 13.8 from 35 in | 51/100 · D |
| Snowfall burden | 21.0 inches/year | 48/100 · D |
Sperryville · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Sperryville is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfa
Coldest-month mean 33.7°F and warmest-month mean 74.4°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
- 74.4°F
- Coldest month
- 33.7°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 · heating-led station
Where Sperryville sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Sperryville's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 58th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 22% wettest
- Sperryville's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 39th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Sperryville compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Sperryville's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
63 46th percentile score exceeds 46% 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 | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 43°F (6°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 3.6" | 6.9" | 25.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 47°F (8°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 2.8" | 6.9" | 22.1 | 0.0 |
| March | 54°F (12°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 4.0" | 1.9" | 16.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 65°F (19°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 4.0" | 0.2" | 2.9 | 0.5 |
| May | 73°F (23°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 4.7" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 1.3 |
| June | 81°F (27°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 5.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 5.2 |
| July | 85°F (30°C) | 64°F (18°C) | 74°F (24°C) | 3.7" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 10.1 |
| August | 84°F (29°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 4.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 7.5 |
| September | 77°F (25°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 5.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 2.3 |
| October | 67°F (20°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 3.7" | 0.0" | 2.0 | 0.2 |
| November | 57°F (14°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 3.7" | 0.3" | 12.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 47°F (8°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 4.0" | 4.8" | 22.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 86°F around July 10, short of 90°F on every date, while 113 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 24°F near January 17.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 20, then returns to freezing around November 29, covering 113 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is May 11, when 45% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is November 7 at 29%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 129 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 15 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 24°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Sperryville.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 6.9"
10.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.9"
9.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.9"
10.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.2"
12.1 days with precipitation
14.5 days with precipitation
11.9 days with precipitation
11.0 days with precipitation
11.0 days with precipitation
10.1 days with precipitation
8.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
8.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.8"
10.4 days with precipitation
Sperryville spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 27% of the annual total and December through February 21%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Sperryville has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 40.7°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: September averages 5.4" and February 2.8". The three wettest months together take 31% 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 Sperryville, it arrives in quantity
48.8" of precipitation falls across only about 128 wet days here, averaging 0.38 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 128 a year, 35% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.38 inches
- Most wet days
- May, about 15
- Fewest wet days
- November, about 8
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.
Winter brings real snow to Sperryville
Sperryville averages 21.0 inches of snowfall a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 11 days that record measurable snow. That is depth accumulating on the ground, which is why it can exceed the annual precipitation figure: precipitation counts the liquid the snow melts down to, and fresh snow is mostly air.
- Annual snowfall: 21.0 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 11 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 4% of the year's precipitation.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. The ten-to-one ratio is a convention, not a measurement: real ratios vary with temperature, so treat the share as an order of magnitude rather than an exact split.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 27
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 16
50% probability date
Growing Season
194 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,810
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
894
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside VA closest to Sperryville 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 (54°F here).
- Atchison, KS 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Glennville, CA 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Kim, CO 54°F · 0.0°F off
- Mexico, MO 54°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (48.8" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Rogersville, TN 48.8" · 0.0" off
- Sumter, SC 48.8" · 0.0" off
- Chapel Hill, NC 48.9" · 0.0" off
- Lamar, MO 48.9" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Sperryville
heating led · wet · mid swing
Sperryville's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 4,810 annual heating degree days against 894 for cooling. Its 40.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Sperryville's frost-free season lasts about 194 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. Sperryville coldest normal
January
The monthly mean of 34°F (1°C) sits near freezing, so cold nights and above-freezing afternoons share the same month.
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2. Sperryville typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Sperryville snow peak
January
Sperryville averages 21.0 inches of snow a year, with January the snowiest month on the normals.
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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 Sperryville's primary station: SPERRYVILLE (USC00447985). 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 a census-designated place (GEOID 5174384), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Sperryville: 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 Sperryville 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.