Springfield, Missouri climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Springfield's normal year runs from 24°F January nights to 90°F July afternoons, with 44.7 inches of precipitation and 14 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 14.1°C, January lows of −4°C, July highs of 32°C, 1,136 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationSpringfield Weather Office Airport
- Station IDUSW00013995
- Location37.24°N 93.40°W
- Elevation1,278 ft (390 m)
- From the center7 miles
- Population170,596
On October 23, the normal high in Springfield is 67°F and the normal low 45°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 Springfield.
- Jan 44° 24°
- Feb 50° 28°
- Mar 59° 36°
- Apr 68° 46°
- May 76° 56°
- Jun 85° 65°
- Jul 90° 69°
- Aug 89° 67°
- Sep 81° 59°
- Oct 70° 47°
- Nov 57° 36°
- Dec 47° 28°
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 Springfield each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 90°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 24°F. The most precipitation falls in May (5.56 in), the least in February (2.40 in).
Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 44°F | 24°F | 34.3°F | 2.54 | 4.4 | 8 | <1 | 25 | 9 h 50 min |
| February | 50°F | 28°F | 38.7°F | 2.40 | 3.3 | 8 | <1 | 20 | 10 h 50 min |
| March | 59°F | 36°F | 47.6°F | 3.51 | 2.0 | 11 | <1 | 12 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 68°F | 46°F | 57.0°F | 4.71 | 0.1 | 11 | <1 | 3 | 13 h 10 min |
| May | 76°F | 56°F | 66.0°F | 5.56 | 0.0 | 12 | <1 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| June | 85°F | 65°F | 74.9°F | 4.47 | 0.0 | 10 | 6 | <1 | 14 h 40 min |
| July | 90°F | 69°F | 79.2°F | 3.85 | 0.0 | 9 | 15 | <1 | 14 h 30 min |
| August | 89°F | 67°F | 78.2°F | 3.59 | 0.0 | 8 | 14 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| September | 81°F | 59°F | 70.3°F | 4.31 | 0.0 | 7 | 4 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 70°F | 47°F | 58.6°F | 3.60 | 0.0 | 9 | <1 | 2 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 57°F | 36°F | 46.7°F | 3.56 | 0.6 | 9 | <1 | 12 | 10 h 10 min |
| December | 47°F | 28°F | 37.4°F | 2.61 | 3.3 | 8 | <1 | 22 | 9 h 40 min |
| Year (annual) | 68°F | 47°F | 57.4°F | 44.71 | 13.7 | 110 | 40 | 95 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7°C | −4°C | 1.3°C | 65 mm | 11 cm |
| February | 10°C | −2°C | 3.7°C | 61 mm | 8 cm |
| March | 15°C | 2°C | 8.7°C | 89 mm | 5 cm |
| April | 20°C | 8°C | 13.9°C | 120 mm | 0 cm |
| May | 25°C | 13°C | 18.9°C | 141 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 30°C | 18°C | 23.8°C | 114 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 32°C | 20°C | 26.2°C | 98 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 32°C | 20°C | 25.7°C | 91 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 27°C | 15°C | 21.3°C | 109 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 21°C | 8°C | 14.8°C | 91 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 14°C | 2°C | 8.2°C | 90 mm | 2 cm |
| December | 8°C | −2°C | 3.0°C | 66 mm | 8 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00013995; 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 Springfield?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in April, May, September and October. Of those, September has the fewest days with rain (7).
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 USW00013995.
When is the last frost in Springfield?
In Springfield, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 9 in half of years and after April 27 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 27 in half of years and before October 14 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 91 year in 10 after April 27; 9 in 10 after March 26
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- October 271 year in 10 before October 14; 9 in 10 before November 9
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 199 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 219 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 30 in half of springs and before November 4 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Springfield in zones 6b to 7a across its 9 ZIP code areas (6b in 65803, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Springfield's NOAA station is in zone 6b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches −1°F (30 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Missouri · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USW00013995; 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.
What hardiness zone is each Springfield ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Springfield's 9 ZIP code areas run from zone 6b to 7a: 7 in 6b and 2 in 7a. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.
Source: USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; ZIP areas in the place: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) lies in the place.
How hot and how cold does it get in Springfield?
In a normal year in Springfield, 40 days a year reach 90°F (2 of them 100°F or more), 95 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 110 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 40a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 2a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 95a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 15high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 110a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 4a normal year
The highest temperature in Springfield's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1888) is 113°F, on July 14, 1954; the lowest is −29°F, on February 12, 1899.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1990, with 63.19 in; the snowiest season is 1969–70, with 43.6 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00013995; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), NWS threaded record SGFthr. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How humid and windy is Springfield, and how clear are its skies?
The summer (June-August) dew point averages 65°F. The muggiest month is July, with an average dew point of 66°F, above the 65°F at which most people call the air sticky; the driest air comes in January (25°F). March is the windiest month (11.0 mph on average), and September has the most clear or nearly clear hours (77%).
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Afternoon humidity | Wind | Clear or few clouds | Overcast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25°F | 66% | 49% | 9.8 mph | 57% | 34% |
| February | 29°F | 63% | 46% | 10.9 mph | 58% | 33% |
| March | 39°F | 63% | 47% | 11.0 mph | 59% | 29% |
| April | 49°F | 68% | 52% | 9.9 mph | 56% | 28% |
| May | 61°F | 74% | 57% | 8.4 mph | 64% | 18% |
| June | 66°F | 71% | 52% | 8.0 mph | 73% | 10% |
| July | 66°F | 69% | 49% | 7.2 mph | 75% | 10% |
| August | 64°F | 69% | 48% | 7.5 mph | 76% | 11% |
| September | 52°F | 68% | 46% | 8.2 mph | 77% | 14% |
| October | 41°F | 69% | 51% | 9.5 mph | 62% | 29% |
| November | 31°F | 69% | 53% | 10.2 mph | 61% | 31% |
| December | 25°F | 70% | 55% | 9.9 mph | 58% | 36% |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 hourly normals, station USW00013995. Monthly averages of all hours; afternoon humidity at 3 p.m. local standard time; sky as the share of hours NOAA's observations rate clear or few clouds (a dash where NOAA publishes no sky value).
How sunny is Springfield?
Over a year 76% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Springfield, 4.3 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (82%) and February the cloudiest (67%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 276th (with 27 others) in sunshine.
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 71% | 2.4 |
| February | 67% | 3.0 |
| March | 69% | 4.0 |
| April | 72% | 5.1 |
| May | 73% | 5.7 |
| June | 82% | 6.6 |
| July | 82% | 6.4 |
| August | 81% | 5.7 |
| September | 82% | 4.9 |
| October | 76% | 3.6 |
| November | 73% | 2.6 |
| December | 69% | 2.0 |
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 Springfield need?
A normal year in Springfield brings 4,277 heating degree days, 20% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,540 cooling degree days, 70% more than 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 4,408 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 953 | 0 |
| February | 736 | 1 |
| March | 546 | 5 |
| April | 267 | 27 |
| May | 86 | 116 |
| June | 6 | 302 |
| July | 0 | 440 |
| August | 1 | 410 |
| September | 39 | 196 |
| October | 238 | 40 |
| November | 550 | 3 |
| December | 856 | 0 |
| Year (annual) | 4,277 | 1,540 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00013995. 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 Springfield been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 58.3°F, 0.9°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 57.4°F. 4 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 57.6°F | +0.2°F | 46.96 | 15.5 |
| 2022 | 57.1°F | −0.3°F | 43.26 | 20.9 |
| 2023 | 59.0°F | +1.6°F | 43.05 | 7.3 |
| 2024 | 59.7°F | +2.3°F | 43.19 | 2.8 |
| 2025 | 58.3°F | +0.9°F | 40.42 | 16.9 |
Over 129 complete years from 1888 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 0.6°F per century (+0.03°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00013995; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Springfield's climate compare?
Springfield is warmer than 114 of the other 133 places with their own NOAA record in Missouri, and wetter than 71. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 57.4°F is warmer than 68%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Springfield 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 Springfield share this climate record?
2 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.
- Republic, MO21,392 people · 5 mi S
- Willard, MO6,632 people · 4 mi N
Source: Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer (place centers) and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distance and direction from the station to each place's center.
What do Springfield's other NOAA stations record?
One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Springfield. This page uses Springfield Weather Office Airport; the other differs by site and elevation, and the linked ones have pages of their own:
| Station | From the center | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield Wbo USW00093981 | 1 mi NW | 1,325 ft | 56.4°F | 23°F | 88°F | 46.5 | – | April 4 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for each station. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
Questions about Springfield's climate
What is the coldest month in Springfield?
January, with a normal high of 44°F and a normal low of 24°F. The warmest is July (90°F by day, 69°F at night).
Does it snow in Springfield?
Yes: 14 inches in a normal year, falling on 10 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in January (4.4 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Springfield?
May, with 5.56 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is February with 2.40 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Springfield in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Springfield in zones 6b to 7a across its 9 ZIP code areas (6b in 65803, the largest). By the same method at Springfield's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches −1°F (30 years, 1991-2020): zone 6b.
How late can frost come in Springfield?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after April 9; in one year in ten it comes after April 27. Waiting until April 27 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Springfield in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- Missouri climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Springfield Wbo, MO6 miles from this station, 56.4°F a year
- Ash Grove, MO11 miles from this station, 57.3°F a year
- Billings, MO16 miles from this station, 56.3°F a year
- Ozark, MO17 miles from this station, 56.1°F a year
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