Spickard, Missouri climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Spickard's normal year runs from 15°F January nights to 86°F July afternoons, with 39.7 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 10.8°C, January lows of −9°C, July highs of 30°C, 1,009 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationSpickard (7 mi W)
- Station IDUSC00237963
- Location40.25°N 93.72°W
- Elevation875 ft (267 m)
- From the center7 miles
- Population220
On October 23, the normal high in Spickard is 62°F and the normal low 40°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 Spickard.
- Jan 33° 15°
- Feb 38° 19°
- Mar 51° 30°
- Apr 62° 40°
- May 72° 52°
- Jun 82° 62°
- Jul 86° 66°
- Aug 85° 64°
- Sep 77° 54°
- Oct 65° 42°
- Nov 50° 31°
- Dec 38° 21°
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 Spickard each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 86°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 15°F. The most precipitation falls in May (5.70 in), the least in January (0.98 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 33°F | 15°F | 24.1°F | 0.98 | 6 | <1 | 30 | 9 h 40 min |
| February | 38°F | 19°F | 28.5°F | 1.37 | 7 | <1 | 26 | 10 h 40 min |
| March | 51°F | 30°F | 40.3°F | 2.31 | 8 | <1 | 20 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 62°F | 40°F | 51.3°F | 3.81 | 11 | <1 | 7 | 13 h 10 min |
| May | 72°F | 52°F | 62.0°F | 5.70 | 12 | 1 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| June | 82°F | 62°F | 71.9°F | 5.28 | 10 | 5 | <1 | 15 h |
| July | 86°F | 66°F | 76.1°F | 4.92 | 9 | 11 | <1 | 14 h 50 min |
| August | 85°F | 64°F | 74.1°F | 4.50 | 9 | 8 | <1 | 13 h 50 min |
| September | 77°F | 54°F | 65.8°F | 3.88 | 8 | 3 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 65°F | 42°F | 53.6°F | 3.24 | 9 | <1 | 6 | 11 h 10 min |
| November | 50°F | 31°F | 40.5°F | 2.20 | 7 | <1 | 18 | 10 h |
| December | 38°F | 21°F | 29.3°F | 1.52 | 7 | <1 | 28 | 9 h 20 min |
| Year (annual) | 62°F | 41°F | 51.4°F | 39.71 | 103 | 28 | 134 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1°C | −9°C | −4.4°C | 25 mm |
| February | 3°C | −7°C | −1.9°C | 35 mm |
| March | 10°C | −1°C | 4.6°C | 59 mm |
| April | 17°C | 5°C | 10.7°C | 97 mm |
| May | 22°C | 11°C | 16.7°C | 145 mm |
| June | 28°C | 17°C | 22.2°C | 134 mm |
| July | 30°C | 19°C | 24.5°C | 125 mm |
| August | 29°C | 18°C | 23.4°C | 114 mm |
| September | 25°C | 12°C | 18.8°C | 99 mm |
| October | 18°C | 6°C | 12.0°C | 82 mm |
| November | 10°C | −1°C | 4.7°C | 56 mm |
| December | 3°C | −6°C | −1.5°C | 39 mm |
NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for this station. The nearest record that keeps one, Trenton (13 miles away), gets 17 inches of snow in a normal year; elevation and distance can change that.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00237963; 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 Spickard?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in May, June, August and September. Of those, September 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 USC00237963.
When is the last frost in Spickard?
In Spickard, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 20 in half of years and after May 5 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 16 in half of years and before September 30 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
- April 201 year in 10 after May 5; 9 in 10 after April 7
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- October 161 year in 10 before September 30; 9 in 10 before October 29
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 177 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 199 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 10 in half of springs and before October 27 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Spickard in zone 6a in ZIP code 64679, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Spickard's NOAA station is in zone 5b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches −11°F (28 complete years); the map interpolates between stations and terrain, so the station and the ZIP area can differ by half a zone.
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Missouri · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00237963; 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 Spickard?
In a normal year in Spickard, 28 days a year reach 90°F (2 of them 100°F or more), 134 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 103 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 28a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 2a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 134a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 38high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 103a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1957) is 107°F, on July 30, 1980; the lowest is −30°F, on January 12, 1974.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 2019, with 61.51 in; the snowiest season is 1977–78, with 46.0 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00237963; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00237963. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Spickard?
Over a year 75% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Spickard, 4.1 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (82%) and January the cloudiest (66%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 66% | 2.0 |
| February | 70% | 2.9 |
| March | 68% | 3.8 |
| April | 70% | 4.9 |
| May | 72% | 5.7 |
| June | 78% | 6.4 |
| July | 82% | 6.4 |
| August | 80% | 5.6 |
| September | 81% | 4.7 |
| October | 74% | 3.2 |
| November | 72% | 2.3 |
| December | 68% | 1.8 |
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 Spickard need?
A normal year in Spickard brings 5,971 heating degree days, 11% more than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,068 cooling degree days, 18% more than the median (908). Seven months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 3,481 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,268 | 0 |
| February | 1,023 | 0 |
| March | 768 | 2 |
| April | 421 | 10 |
| May | 159 | 68 |
| June | 18 | 223 |
| July | 3 | 345 |
| August | 6 | 288 |
| September | 93 | 116 |
| October | 370 | 17 |
| November | 737 | 0 |
| December | 1,107 | 0 |
| Year (annual) | 5,971 | 1,068 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00237963. 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 Spickard been warmer than normal lately?
2022 averaged 50.8°F, 0.6°F below the 1991-2020 normal of 51.4°F. 1 of the 2 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 53.0°F | +1.6°F | 37.14 |
| 2022 | 50.8°F | −0.6°F | 33.81 |
Over 104 complete years from 1900 to 2022, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.0°F per century (+0.11°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00237963; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Spickard's climate compare?
Spickard is warmer than 6 of the other 133 places with their own NOAA record in Missouri, and wetter than 18. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 51.4°F is warmer than 47%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Spickard is Dfa: continental, 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 Spickard share this climate record?
3 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.
- Gilman City, MO329 people · 12 mi SW
- Mount Moriah, MO76 people · 7 mi NW
- Brimson, MO45 people · 7 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 Spickard's climate
What is the coldest month in Spickard?
January, with a normal high of 33°F and a normal low of 15°F. The warmest is July (86°F by day, 66°F at night).
Does it snow in Spickard?
Yes. NOAA publishes no 1991-2020 snowfall normal for Spickard's NOAA station; the nearest record that keeps one, Trenton (13 miles away), records 17 inches of snow in a normal year.
What is the rainiest month in Spickard?
May, with 5.70 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is January with 0.98 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Spickard in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Spickard in zone 6a in ZIP code 64679, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Spickard's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches −11°F (28 years, 1991-2020): zone 5b.
How late can frost come in Spickard?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after April 20; in one year in ten it comes after May 5. Waiting until May 5 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Missouri climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Princeton, MO12 miles from this station, 51.1°F a year
- Trenton, MO12 miles from this station, 52.8°F a year
- Bethany, MO16 miles from this station, 51.8°F a year
- Gallatin, MO27 miles from this station, 51.6°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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