This weather has a price Keeping the median Breathitt County home comfortable runs roughly $360 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Breathitt County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

84.6°

average daily high. The coldest month is January, averaging a low of 22.9°F.

Breathitt County gets 48.95" of precipitation a year, and 30% of it falls in May, Jun, Jul.

Temperature through the year

Each bar spans the average daily low to the average daily high for that month.

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Precip
January	43.6°	22.9°	3.86"
February	47.5°	25.7°	3.60"
March	56.6°	31.3°	4.12"
April	67.9°	39.7°	4.50"
May	75.1°	50.9°	4.71"
June	81.9°	59.7°	4.99"
July	84.6°	64.1°	5.13"
August	83.9°	62.6°	4.01"
September	79.1°	55.6°	3.41"
October	68.6°	41.8°	3.30"
November	57.5°	32.1°	3.13"
December	47.9°	26.7°	4.19"

Rainfall by month

Precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year here, with 30% falling in the wettest three months (May, Jun, Jul).

January 3.86"

February 3.60"

March 4.12"

April 4.50"

May 4.71"

June 4.99"

July 5.13"

August 4.01"

September 3.41"

October 3.30"

November 3.13"

December 4.19"

Annual total 48.95"

What this climate costs you

Degree days measure how hard a building has to work to stay comfortable. They are the reason two identical houses have very different power bills, and they are the link between the weather here and what you pay every month.

Cooling degree days How much air conditioning the climate demands 944

Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 4,752

Approximate annual cooling cost At 13.8¢/kWh, Kentucky average $130

Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $230

These are rough planning figures from degree days and the state electricity price, not a bill estimate. House size, insulation and fuel type move them a lot. See the full cost of owning a home in Breathitt County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Breathitt County?

Breathitt County averages a high of 84.6°F in July and a low of 22.9°F in January. Annual precipitation is 48.95 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Breathitt County?

The wettest stretch is May, Jun, Jul, which accounts for 30% of the year's precipitation. Precipitation is relatively evenly distributed across the year.

How hot does it get in Breathitt County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 84.6°F. That drives 944 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Breathitt County?

The weather station used for Breathitt County, QUICKSAND, KY US, reports temperature and precipitation but not snowfall, so there is no snow normal to quote here. Precipitation that falls as snow is still counted in the 48.95 inches above, measured as melted water.

Sources

Temperature, precipitation and snowfall normals: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 1991 to 2020 Monthly Climate Normals, station QUICKSAND, KY US (USC00156624), 2.1 miles from the county centroid.
Heating and cooling degree days: NOAA, same station and period.
Annual figures on this page are the sum of that station's twelve monthly normals. NOAA also publishes a separately-computed annual normal, which can differ from the monthly sum by a few percent; we use the monthly series because the month-by-month breakdown above has to come from it.
Electricity price: US Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A, Kentucky residential average.
Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.