Spruce Pine, NC Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Annual temperature and rainfall from NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 normals →; comfort score computed by PlainClimate
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Spruce Pine's primary NOAA station, SPRUCE PINE 2 NE.
The climate verdict for Spruce Pine
Water is the standout signal in Spruce Pine, North Carolina: 57.2 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 53°F. At 52/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 24% of scores.
- 53°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 52/100
- comfort score, above 24% of station-mapped location scores
- 57.2"
- yearly precipitation total
- 177 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Spruce Pine: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00318221 · Spruce Pine, NC 53°F mean · 57.2" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-MID · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 53°F
- RANK-MID #3,499
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Callahan
- PRCP-WET 57.2"
- SWING-MID 37°F
- COMF-LOW 52/100
- LOAD-HEAT 4,997 HDD
- STN-1 USC00318221
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Callahan, CA ( -0.1 °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 NC station list.
- Spruce Pine (this station) 53°F
- Hot Black Rvr Pumps, AZ 53°F
- Cold Flat Springs, NC 52°F
- Near Callahan, CA 52°F
- Near Ashland, OR 52°F
Climate Living Index · Spruce Pine
Spruce Pine: 48/100 · grade D
Spruce Pine publishes 4 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 2 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Spruce Pine, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 52/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 127 calendar days | 60/100 · C |
| Annual temperature balance | 52.5°F · 15.0° from 67.5°F | 51/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 177 days/year | 48/100 · D |
| Precipitation balance | 57.2 in · 22.2 from 35 in | 21/100 · F |
Spruce Pine · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Spruce Pine is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfb
Coldest-month mean 34.0°F and warmest-month mean 70.6°F place this station in temperate, no dry season, warm summer climates (Cfb). Class Cfb is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, no dry season, warm summer.
- Köppen code
- Cfb
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 70.6°F
- Coldest month
- 34.0°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 Spruce Pine sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Spruce Pine's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- 51st percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 8% wettest
- Spruce Pine'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 Spruce Pine is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Spruce Pine compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Spruce Pine's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
52 24th percentile score exceeds 24% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Above this entry.
- 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 | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 45°F (7°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 4.5" | 24.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 48°F (9°C) | 26°F (-4°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 3.5" | 22.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 55°F (13°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 5.2" | 18.4 | 0.0 |
| April | 64°F (18°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 5.5" | 8.6 | 0.0 |
| May | 71°F (22°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 5.1" | 0.8 | 0.0 |
| June | 78°F (25°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 67°F (19°C) | 5.0" | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| July | 81°F (27°C) | 60°F (16°C) | 71°F (21°C) | 5.5" | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| August | 80°F (26°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 69°F (21°C) | 5.5" | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| September | 74°F (23°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 5.1" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| October | 65°F (18°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 3.8" | 5.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 56°F (13°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 3.9" | 20.4 | 0.0 |
| December | 48°F (9°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 4.6" | 23.5 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 82°F around July 16, short of 90°F on every date, while 127 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 23°F near January 19.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into March 17, then returns to freezing around November 12, covering 127 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.
The widest day
April 21 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 25°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Spruce Pine.
Where Spruce Pine Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 57 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Spruce Pine earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Spruce Pine spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 28% of the annual total and December through February 22%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Spruce Pine has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 36.6°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: April averages 5.5" and February 3.5". The three wettest months together take 29% 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.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 20
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 26
50% probability date
Growing Season
177 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
4,997
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
484
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NC closest to Spruce Pine 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 (53°F here).
- Cameron, MO 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Cheraw, CO 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Chillicothe, MO 53°F · 0.0°F off
- Cloverdale, OR 53°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (57.2" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Lacomb, OR 57.2" · 0.0" off
- Dennard, AR 57.2" · 0.0" off
- Union Springs, AL 57.2" · 0.0" off
- Belzoni, MS 57.3" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Spruce Pine's climate pattern fits together
heating led · wet · mid swing
Spruce Pine's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 4,997 annual heating degree days against 484 for cooling. Its 36.6°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Spruce Pine's frost-free season lasts about 177 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Spruce Pine's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 36.6°F. The annual average is 53°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Alongside its heating load, Spruce Pine carries 57.2 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. That distinction matters because a wet annual total can arrive as rain, snow, or a mixture at different times.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Spruce Pine's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Spruce Pine, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead 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 Spruce Pine's primary station: SPRUCE PINE 2 NE (USC00318221). 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 an incorporated place (GEOID 3764260). Match rule for Spruce Pine: 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 Spruce Pine 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.