Tifton, Georgia climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Tifton's normal year runs from 37°F January nights to 90°F July afternoons, with 48.2 inches of precipitation a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 18.3°C, January lows of 3°C, July highs of 32°C, 1,225 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationTifton
- Station IDUSC00098703
- Location31.45°N 83.48°W
- Elevation380 ft (116 m)
- Population17,385
On October 23, the normal high in Tifton is 75°F and the normal low 52°F, and the chance of measurable rain or snow is 19%.
Normals describe a typical year at the station, not a forecast. The National Weather Service forecast for Tifton.
- Jan 59° 37°
- Feb 64° 40°
- Mar 69° 46°
- Apr 75° 52°
- May 84° 60°
- Jun 88° 67°
- Jul 90° 70°
- Aug 89° 70°
- Sep 86° 65°
- Oct 77° 55°
- Nov 68° 45°
- Dec 63° 40°
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 Tifton each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 90°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 37°F. The most precipitation falls in July (5.16 in), the least in May (2.67 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. | Wet days | 90°F days | Freezing nights | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 59°F | 37°F | 47.6°F | 4.08 | 9 | <1 | 11 | 10 h 20 min |
| February | 64°F | 40°F | 52.0°F | 4.40 | 8 | <1 | 6 | 11 h |
| March | 69°F | 46°F | 57.3°F | 4.77 | 8 | <1 | 3 | 12 h |
| April | 75°F | 52°F | 63.7°F | 3.28 | 7 | 1 | <1 | 12 h 50 min |
| May | 84°F | 60°F | 72.2°F | 2.67 | 7 | 7 | <1 | 13 h 40 min |
| June | 88°F | 67°F | 77.6°F | 4.95 | 12 | 15 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| July | 90°F | 70°F | 80.1°F | 5.16 | 12 | 22 | <1 | 14 h |
| August | 89°F | 70°F | 79.6°F | 4.45 | 12 | 19 | <1 | 13 h 20 min |
| September | 86°F | 65°F | 75.5°F | 4.28 | 8 | 10 | <1 | 12 h 20 min |
| October | 77°F | 55°F | 66.1°F | 2.83 | 6 | 1 | <1 | 11 h 30 min |
| November | 68°F | 45°F | 56.5°F | 3.16 | 6 | <1 | 3 | 10 h 40 min |
| December | 63°F | 40°F | 51.1°F | 4.20 | 7 | <1 | 8 | 10 h 10 min |
| Year (annual) | 76°F | 54°F | 64.9°F | 48.23 | 102 | 74 | 30 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15°C | 3°C | 8.7°C | 104 mm |
| February | 18°C | 5°C | 11.1°C | 112 mm |
| March | 21°C | 8°C | 14.1°C | 121 mm |
| April | 24°C | 11°C | 17.6°C | 83 mm |
| May | 29°C | 16°C | 22.3°C | 68 mm |
| June | 31°C | 20°C | 25.3°C | 126 mm |
| July | 32°C | 21°C | 26.7°C | 131 mm |
| August | 32°C | 21°C | 26.4°C | 113 mm |
| September | 30°C | 18°C | 24.2°C | 109 mm |
| October | 25°C | 13°C | 18.9°C | 72 mm |
| November | 20°C | 7°C | 13.6°C | 80 mm |
| December | 17°C | 4°C | 10.6°C | 107 mm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00098703; 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 Tifton?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May, October and November. Of those, November has the fewest days with rain (6).
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 USC00098703.
When is the last frost in Tifton?
In Tifton, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 11 in half of years and after March 29 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 19 in half of years and before November 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
- March 111 year in 10 after March 29; 9 in 10 after February 18
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 191 year in 10 before November 1; 9 in 10 before December 14
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 254 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 288 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after February 26 in half of springs and before December 8 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Tifton in zone 9a in ZIP code 31793, the nearest ZIP area. By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Tifton's NOAA station is in zone 9a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 20°F (24 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Georgia · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USC00098703; 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 Tifton?
In a normal year in Tifton, 74 days a year reach 90°F (1 of them 100°F or more), 30 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 102 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 74a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 1a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 30a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- fewer than 1high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 102a normal year
The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1911) is 106°F, on September 5, 1925; the lowest is 0°F, on January 22, 1985.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1964, with 68.82 in; the snowiest season is 1933–34, with 2.2 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USC00098703; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), station USC00098703. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How sunny is Tifton?
Over a year 80% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Tifton, 4.8 kWh per square metre a day. May is the sunniest month (84%) and February the cloudiest (73%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 76% | 3.1 |
| February | 73% | 3.6 |
| March | 77% | 4.8 |
| April | 81% | 5.9 |
| May | 84% | 6.5 |
| June | 80% | 6.3 |
| July | 83% | 6.3 |
| August | 81% | 5.7 |
| September | 81% | 5.0 |
| October | 81% | 4.2 |
| November | 81% | 3.4 |
| December | 74% | 2.7 |
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 Tifton need?
A normal year in Tifton brings 2,080 heating degree days, 61% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,082 cooling degree days, 2.3 times the median (908). Three months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 5,879 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 540 | 2 |
| February | 371 | 6 |
| March | 257 | 19 |
| April | 104 | 65 |
| May | 13 | 235 |
| June | 0 | 380 |
| July | 0 | 468 |
| August | 0 | 454 |
| September | 3 | 318 |
| October | 77 | 111 |
| November | 275 | 19 |
| December | 439 | 6 |
| Year (annual) | 2,080 | 2,082 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USC00098703. 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 Tifton been warmer than normal lately?
2021 averaged 65.6°F, 0.7°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 64.9°F.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 65.6°F | +0.7°F | 66.83 |
Over 77 complete years from 1925 to 2021, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 0.6°F per century (+0.04°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USC00098703; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Tifton's climate compare?
Tifton is warmer than 63 of the other 100 places with their own NOAA record in Georgia, and wetter than 22. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 64.9°F is warmer than 88%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Tifton 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 Tifton share this climate record?
8 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.
- Nashville, GA4,950 people · 21 mi SE
- Unionville, GA1,670 people · 2 mi W
- Omega, GA1,324 people · 10 mi SW
- Enigma, GA1,112 people · 10 mi E
- Lenox, GA746 people · 13 mi S
- Ty Ty, GA644 people · 10 mi W
- Phillipsburg, GA507 people · 3 mi W
- Alapaha, GA493 people · 16 mi E
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 Tifton's climate
What is the coldest month in Tifton?
January, with a normal high of 59°F and a normal low of 37°F. The warmest is July (90°F by day, 70°F at night).
Does it snow in Tifton?
Rarely: NOAA's normal is no measurable snow a year.
What is the rainiest month in Tifton?
July, with 5.16 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is May with 2.67 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Tifton in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Tifton in zone 9a in ZIP code 31793, the nearest ZIP area. By the same method at Tifton's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 20°F (24 years, 1991-2020): zone 9a.
How late can frost come in Tifton?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 11; in one year in ten it comes after March 29. Waiting until March 29 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Tifton in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- Georgia climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Ashburn, GA19 miles from this station, 65.6°F a year
- Fitzgerald, GA22 miles from this station, 66.3°F a year
- Moultrie, GA25 miles from this station, 66.3°F a year
- Pridgen, GA37 miles from this station, 65.5°F a year
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