Tupelo, Mississippi climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records
Tupelo's normal year runs from 34°F January nights to 92°F July afternoons, with 57.7 inches of precipitation and 2 inches of snow a year. (NOAA 1991-2020 normals)
In metric: a yearly mean of 17.6°C, January lows of 1°C, July highs of 34°C, 1,467 mm of precipitation a year.
- NOAA stationTupelo Regional Airport
- Station IDUSW00093862
- Location34.26°N 88.77°W
- Elevation361 ft (110 m)
- Population37,775
On October 23, the normal high in Tupelo is 74°F and the normal low 49°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 Tupelo.
- Jan 53° 34°
- Feb 58° 37°
- Mar 66° 44°
- Apr 75° 52°
- May 83° 61°
- Jun 90° 69°
- Jul 92° 72°
- Aug 92° 71°
- Sep 87° 64°
- Oct 77° 52°
- Nov 64° 42°
- Dec 56° 36°
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 Tupelo each month?
July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 92°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 34°F. The most precipitation falls in December (5.94 in), the least in September (3.57 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 | 53°F | 34°F | 43.4°F | 4.82 | 0.6 | 11 | <1 | 16 | 10 h 10 min |
| February | 58°F | 37°F | 47.3°F | 5.29 | 0.6 | 11 | <1 | 11 | 11 h |
| March | 66°F | 44°F | 55.1°F | 5.37 | 0.2 | 11 | <1 | 5 | 11 h 50 min |
| April | 75°F | 52°F | 63.3°F | 5.51 | 0.0 | 10 | <1 | 1 | 13 h |
| May | 83°F | 61°F | 71.8°F | 5.22 | 0.0 | 10 | 3 | <1 | 14 h |
| June | 90°F | 69°F | 79.2°F | 5.01 | 0.0 | 10 | 15 | <1 | 14 h 30 min |
| July | 92°F | 72°F | 82.3°F | 4.50 | 0.0 | 10 | 22 | <1 | 14 h 10 min |
| August | 92°F | 71°F | 81.6°F | 4.07 | 0.0 | 9 | 20 | <1 | 13 h 30 min |
| September | 87°F | 64°F | 75.5°F | 3.57 | 0.0 | 6 | 10 | <1 | 12 h 30 min |
| October | 77°F | 52°F | 64.4°F | 3.96 | 0.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 11 h 20 min |
| November | 64°F | 42°F | 53.0°F | 4.48 | 0.0 | 9 | <1 | 7 | 10 h 20 min |
| December | 56°F | 36°F | 45.9°F | 5.94 | 0.1 | 11 | <1 | 14 | 9 h 50 min |
| Year (annual) | 74°F | 53°F | 63.6°F | 57.74 | 1.5 | 115 | 70 | 54 |
The same normals in °C and millimetres
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12°C | 1°C | 6.3°C | 122 mm | 2 cm |
| February | 14°C | 3°C | 8.5°C | 134 mm | 2 cm |
| March | 19°C | 7°C | 12.8°C | 136 mm | 1 cm |
| April | 24°C | 11°C | 17.4°C | 140 mm | 0 cm |
| May | 28°C | 16°C | 22.1°C | 133 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 32°C | 20°C | 26.2°C | 127 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 34°C | 22°C | 27.9°C | 114 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 33°C | 22°C | 27.6°C | 103 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 30°C | 18°C | 24.2°C | 91 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 25°C | 11°C | 18.0°C | 101 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 18°C | 5°C | 11.7°C | 114 mm | 0 cm |
| December | 13°C | 2°C | 7.7°C | 151 mm | 0 cm |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00093862; 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 Tupelo?
Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in March, April, May and October. Of those, October 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 USW00093862.
When is the last frost in Tupelo?
In Tupelo, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after March 21 in half of years and after April 6 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before November 10 in half of years and before October 29 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 211 year in 10 after April 6; 9 in 10 after February 28
- First autumn frost, half of years before
- November 101 year in 10 before October 29; 9 in 10 before November 28
NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 235 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 262 days.
A hard freeze (28°F) comes after March 5 in half of springs and before November 23 in half of autumns.
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Tupelo in zone 8a across its 3 ZIP code areas (8a in 38801, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Tupelo's NOAA station is in zone 8a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches 13°F (30 complete years).
Frost dates for every NOAA station in Mississippi · Frost dates by ZIP code
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals (frost probabilities), station USW00093862; 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 Tupelo ZIP code in?
The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Tupelo's 3 ZIP code areas are all in zone 8a. 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 Tupelo?
In a normal year in Tupelo, 70 days a year reach 90°F (3 of them 100°F or more), 54 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 115 days bring measurable precipitation.
- Days at 90°F or more
- 70a normal year
- Days at 100°F or more
- 3a normal year
- Nights at 32°F or colder
- 54a normal year
- Days that stay below freezing
- 2high of 32°F or less
- Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation
- 115a normal year
- Days with 1 inch of snow or more
- fewer than 1a normal year
The highest temperature in Tupelo's official record (kept by the National Weather Service since 1930) is 109°F, on July 29, 1930; the lowest is −14°F, on January 27, 1940.
The wettest calendar year on that record is 1991, with 81.05 in; the snowiest season is 1935–36, with 14.8 inches.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual normals, station USW00093862; records: ACIS (NOAA Regional Climate Centers), NWS threaded record TUPthr. Records use complete months only; a month missing more than three days is left out.
How humid and windy is Tupelo, and how clear are its skies?
The summer (June-August) dew point averages 69°F. The muggiest month is July, with an average dew point of 70°F, above the 65°F at which most people call the air sticky; the driest air comes in January (32°F). February is the windiest month (7.9 mph on average), and July has the most clear or nearly clear hours (79%).
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Afternoon humidity | Wind | Clear or few clouds | Overcast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32°F | 66% | 48% | 7.4 mph | 58% | 34% |
| February | 38°F | 64% | 46% | 7.9 mph | 52% | 38% |
| March | 46°F | 64% | 44% | 7.8 mph | 61% | 25% |
| April | 54°F | 68% | 47% | 6.9 mph | 65% | 18% |
| May | 64°F | 71% | 53% | 5.7 mph | 68% | 13% |
| June | 69°F | 71% | 52% | 5.0 mph | 75% | 6% |
| July | 70°F | 73% | 52% | 4.5 mph | 79% | 6% |
| August | 68°F | 72% | 50% | 5.3 mph | 77% | 8% |
| September | 58°F | 70% | 45% | 5.8 mph | 77% | 14% |
| October | 47°F | 71% | 47% | 5.7 mph | 64% | 27% |
| November | 39°F | 71% | 51% | 6.5 mph | 58% | 35% |
| December | 34°F | 72% | 54% | 7.1 mph | 51% | 40% |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 hourly normals, station USW00093862. 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 Tupelo?
Over a year 76% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Tupelo, 4.5 kWh per square metre a day. June is the sunniest month (82%) and February the cloudiest (65%).
| Month | Share of clear-sky sunshine | Sunshine, kWh/m² a day |
|---|---|---|
| January | 69% | 2.5 |
| February | 65% | 3.0 |
| March | 70% | 4.1 |
| April | 75% | 5.4 |
| May | 77% | 6.0 |
| June | 82% | 6.5 |
| July | 81% | 6.2 |
| August | 81% | 5.7 |
| September | 81% | 5.0 |
| October | 78% | 3.9 |
| November | 76% | 2.9 |
| December | 67% | 2.2 |
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 Tupelo need?
A normal year in Tupelo brings 2,727 heating degree days, 49% fewer than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 2,234 cooling degree days, 2.5 times 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 5,723 growing degree days a year above 50°F.
| Month | Heating | Cooling |
|---|---|---|
| January | 671 | 1 |
| February | 498 | 3 |
| March | 328 | 19 |
| April | 124 | 72 |
| May | 20 | 230 |
| June | 0 | 425 |
| July | 0 | 538 |
| August | 0 | 513 |
| September | 6 | 321 |
| October | 116 | 98 |
| November | 370 | 12 |
| December | 594 | 3 |
| Year (annual) | 2,727 | 2,234 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 monthly normals, station USW00093862. 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 Tupelo been warmer than normal lately?
2025 averaged 64.0°F, 0.4°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 63.6°F. 5 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.
| Year | Mean | Against normal | Precip. | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 64.5°F | +0.9°F | 71.15 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 64.5°F | +0.9°F | 53.34 | 1.4 |
| 2023 | 65.8°F | +2.2°F | 49.29 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 65.7°F | +2.1°F | 54.90 | 1.0 |
| 2025 | 64.0°F | +0.4°F | 56.85 | 2.9 |
Over 58 complete years from 1963 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 5.2°F per century (+0.29°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.
Source: observed years: ACIS, station USW00093862; trend: NOAA GHCN-Monthly v4. A year counts only with all twelve months complete.
How does Tupelo's climate compare?
Tupelo is warmer than 36 of the other 80 places with their own NOAA record in Mississippi, and wetter than 24. Across the 7,247 U.S. stations with normals, its annual mean of 63.6°F is warmer than 84%.
In the Köppen classification computed from these normals, Tupelo 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 Tupelo 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.
- Saltillo, MS4,968 people · 9 mi NE
- Guntown, MS2,606 people · 14 mi NE
- Sherman, MS635 people · 8 mi NW
- Blue Springs, MS439 people · 11 mi NW
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 Tupelo's other NOAA stations record?
One more NOAA station keeps 1991-2020 normals in or near Tupelo. This page uses Tupelo Regional Airport; the other differs by site and elevation:
| Station | From this station | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tupelo 2 USC00229004 | in town | 350 ft | 62.1°F | 32°F | 90°F | 57.9 | 1 | March 21 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for each station. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
Questions about Tupelo's climate
What is the coldest month in Tupelo?
January, with a normal high of 53°F and a normal low of 34°F. The warmest is July (92°F by day, 72°F at night).
Does it snow in Tupelo?
Yes: 2 inches in a normal year, falling on 2 days with 0.1 inch or more, the most in January (0.6 inches).
What is the rainiest month in Tupelo?
December, with 5.94 in of precipitation in a normal year; the driest is September with 3.57 in.
What plant hardiness zone is Tupelo in?
The USDA's 2023 map puts Tupelo in zone 8a across its 3 ZIP code areas (8a in 38801, the largest). By the same method at Tupelo's NOAA station, the coldest night of a typical year reaches 13°F (30 years, 1991-2020): zone 8a.
How late can frost come in Tupelo?
In half of years the last 32°F night comes after March 21; in one year in ten it comes after April 6. Waiting until April 6 leaves about a one-in-ten chance of a later frost.
Nearby and next
- Tupelo in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
- Mississippi climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
- Verona, MS7 miles from this station, 63.2°F a year
- Pontotoc, MS16 miles from this station, 61.6°F a year
- Fulton, MS18 miles from this station, 60.6°F a year
- Booneville, MS29 miles from this station, 60.0°F a year
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