Sweet Springs, Missouri climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Sweet Springs's normal year runs from 17°F January nights to 89°F July afternoons, with 42.5 inches of precipitation and 12 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 12.4°C, January lows of −8°C, July highs of 32°C, 1,081 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationSweet Springs
- Station IDUSC00238223
- Location38.97°N 93.42°W
- Elevation675 ft (206 m)
- Population1,331
On October 23, the normal high in Sweet Springs is 66°F and the normal low 41°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 26%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Sweet Springs.
- Jan 38° 17°
- Feb 44° 22°
- Mar 56° 32°
- Apr 66° 42°
- May 76° 53°
- Jun 84° 63°
- Jul 89° 67°
- Aug 87° 65°
- Sep 80° 56°
- Oct 69° 43°
- Nov 55° 32°
- Dec 43° 23°
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 Sweet Springs each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 89°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 17°F. The most precipitation falls in May (5.49 in), the least in January (1.48 in).
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38°F | 17°F | 27.9°F | 1.48 | 4.7 | 6 | <1 | 28 | 9 h 40 min |
| February | 44°F | 22°F | 33.3°F | 1.96 | 2.3 | 6 | <1 | 22 | 10 h 40 min |
| March | 56°F | 32°F | 43.9°F | 2.91 | 1.5 | 9 | <1 | 15 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 66°F | 42°F | 54.2°F | 4.38 | 0.3 | 11 | <1 | 4 | 13 h 10 min |
| May | 76°F | 53°F | 64.5°F | 5.49 | 0.0 | 12 | 1 | <1 | 14 h 20 min |
| June | 84°F | 63°F | 73.6°F | 4.45 | 0.0 | 9 | 8 | <1 | 14 h 50 min |
| July | 89°F | 67°F | 77.7°F | 5.49 | 0.0 | 9 | 13 | <1 | 14 h 40 min |
| August | 87°F | 65°F | 75.9°F | 4.36 | 0.0 | 8 | 12 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| September | 80°F | 56°F | 67.7°F | 4.00 | 0.0 | 8 | 4 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 69°F | 43°F | 56.0°F | 3.37 | 0.1 | 8 | <1 | 4 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 55°F | 32°F | 43.5°F | 2.55 | 0.4 | 7 | <1 | 15 | 10 h 10 min |
| December | 43°F | 23°F | 33.1°F | 2.10 | 2.9 | 6 | <1 | 25 | 9 h 30 min |
| Year (annual) | 66°F | 43°F | 54.3°F | 42.54 | 12.2 | 98 | 37 | 112 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4°C | −8°C | −2.3°C | 38 mm | 12 cm |
| February | 7°C | −5°C | 0.7°C | 50 mm | 6 cm |
| March | 13°C | 0°C | 6.6°C | 74 mm | 4 cm |
| April | 19°C | 6°C | 12.3°C | 111 mm | 1 cm |
| May | 24°C | 12°C | 18.1°C | 139 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 29°C | 17°C | 23.1°C | 113 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 32°C | 19°C | 25.4°C | 139 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 31°C | 18°C | 24.4°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 27°C | 13°C | 19.8°C | 102 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 20°C | 6°C | 13.3°C | 86 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 13°C | 0°C | 6.4°C | 65 mm | 1 cm |
| December | 6°C | −5°C | 0.6°C | 53 mm | 7 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00238223; 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 Sweet Springs?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in April, May, June, September and October. 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 USC00238223.
When is the last frost in Sweet Springs?
In Sweet Springs, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 17 in half of years and after May 2 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 20 in half of years and before October 1 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 171 year in 10 after May 2; 9 in 10 after April 3
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- October 201 year in 10 before October 1; 9 in 10 before November 1
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 184 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 207 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 4 in half of springs and before October 29 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sweet Springs in zone 6b in ZIP code 65351, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Sweet Springs's NOAA station is in zone 6b: the coldest night of a typical year reaches −5°F (18 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 USC00238223; 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 Sweet Springs?
In a normal year in Sweet Springs, 37 days a year reach 90°F (2 of them 100°F or more), 112 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 98 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 37a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 2a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 112a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 25high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 98a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- 5a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1941) is 115°F, on July 14, 1954; the lowest is −24°F, on January 5, 1959.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1951, with 61.92 in; the snowiest season is 1959–60, with 46.2 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00238223; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00238223. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Sweet Springs?
Over a year 76% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Sweet Springs, 4.3 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (83%) and March the cloudiest (68%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 69% | 2.2 |
| February | 68% | 3.0 |
| March | 68% | 3.9 |
| April | 71% | 5.0 |
| May | 73% | 5.7 |
| June | 81% | 6.6 |
| July | 83% | 6.5 |
| August | 81% | 5.7 |
| September | 82% | 4.8 |
| October | 76% | 3.5 |
| November | 73% | 2.5 |
| December | 69% | 1.9 |
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 Sweet Springs need?
A normal year in Sweet Springs brings 5,162 heating degree days, 4% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 1,284 cooling degree days, 41% 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 3,921 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1,150 | 0 |
| February | 888 | 0 |
| March | 655 | 3 |
| April | 343 | 17 |
| May | 112 | 97 |
| June | 9 | 265 |
| July | 1 | 393 |
| August | 2 | 340 |
| September | 62 | 143 |
| October | 306 | 25 |
| November | 648 | 1 |
| December | 987 | 0 |
| Year (annual) | 5,162 | 1,284 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00238223. 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 Sweet Springs been warmer than normal lately?
2021 averaged 55.8°F, 1.5°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 54.3°F.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 55.8°F | +1.5°F | 39.12 | 11.5 |
Over 95 complete years from 1890 to 2021, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 0.1°F per century (+0.01°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00238223; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Sweet Springs's climate compare?
Sweet Springs is warmer than 47 of the other 133 places with their own NOAA record in Missouri, and wetter than 50. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 54.3°F is warmer than 58%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Sweet Springs 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 Sweet Springs share this climate record?
4 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.
- Concordia, MO2,358 people · 8 mi W
- La Monte, MO1,009 people · 13 mi S
- Emma, MO204 people · 4 mi W
- Houstonia, MO195 people · 6 mi SE
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 Sweet Springs's climate
What is the coldest month in Sweet Springs?
January, with a normal high of 38°F and a normal low of 17°F. The warmest is July (89°F by day, 67°F at night).
Does it snow in Sweet Springs?
Yes: 12 inches in a normal year, falling on 8 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in January (4.7 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Sweet Springs?
May, with 5.49 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is January with 1.48 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Sweet Springs in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Sweet Springs in zone 6b in ZIP code 65351, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Sweet Springs's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches −5°F (18 years, 1991-2020): zone 6b.
How late can frost come in Sweet Springs?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after April 17; in one year in ten it comes after May 2. Waiting until May 2 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Missouri climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Marshall, MO16 miles from this station, 54.0°F a year
- Higginsville, MO17 miles from this station, 53.6°F a year
- Waverly, MO18 miles from this station, 54.6°F a year
- Sedalia, MO22 miles from this station, 54.8°F a year
- Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side
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