NOAA NCEI Climate Normals 1991–2020
West Virginia Weather by Month
Temperature, rain and the hurricane season at 65 West Virginia stations, month by month.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
The median station records 46.8 inches of precipitation a year; Webster Springs 8 N, WV records the most, 60.2 inches, and Moorefield 1 SSE, WV the least, 35.4 (1.7 times as much). July is the hottest month at the median station (average high 85°F); the hottest July is at Keyser 2 SSW, WV, 89°F. January is the coldest (average low 22°F); the coldest January nights are at Marlinton, WV, 16°F. Highs reach 90°F on 15 days a year at the median station and on 46 at Logan, WV, the most. Snowfall is heaviest at Terra Alta #1, WV, 171.1 inches a year.
This page compares the 1991–2020 NOAA climate normals of 65 West Virginia weather stations, each the nearest station with full normals to at least one of the 161 West Virginia cities on this site that have one within 25 miles.
At the median station, July is the wettest month (5.2 inches) and November the driest (3.0). Station by station, the wettest month is July at 37, May at 18 and June at 10 of the 65, and the driest November at 27, October at 22 and February at 15. The gap between the wettest and driest station is widest in July: 3.2 inches.
Month by month across West Virginia
High, low and precipitation are the median of the 65 stations; the station columns name the station with the highest average high, the lowest average low, and the most and least precipitation that month, each linked to the city page it serves. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.
Hurricane season in West Virginia
June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 50% of the year's precipitation at the median station, from 48% at Rupert 4 N, WV to 55% at Wardensville R M Farm, WV. Since 1851, 35 tropical systems have passed within 75 miles of a West Virginia city on this site, 4 of them at hurricane strength at their closest point to one; October has brought the most (13), then September (11). None came outside June to November.
| Month | Tropical systems | At hurricane strength | Median precip. in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 0 | 0 | 3.4 |
| Feb | 0 | 0 | 3.3 |
| Mar | 0 | 0 | 4.2 |
| Apr | 0 | 0 | 3.9 |
| May | 0 | 0 | 4.8 |
| Jun | 3 | 0 | 4.6 |
| Jul | 0 | 0 | 5.2 |
| Aug | 7 | 0 | 3.8 |
| Sep | 11 | 1 | 3.6 |
| Oct | 13 | 3 | 3.1 |
| Nov | 1 | 0 | 3.0 |
| Dec | 0 | 0 | 3.7 |
Tropical systems from NOAA NHC HURDAT2 that passed within 75 miles of a West Virginia city on this site, each counted once, in the month of its first such pass; hurricane strength is the track's wind at its closest point to a city.
West Virginia cities and their stations
| City | Station | Miles | Hottest month high °F | Coldest month low °F | Year precip. in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inwood | Martinsburg E Wv Regional Airport, WV | 3 | 87 | 24 | 39.0 |
How stations are matched to cities and what normals are: methodology · other states by month