This weather has a price Keeping the median Buchanan County home comfortable runs roughly $508 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Buchanan County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

88.1°

average daily high. The coldest month is January, averaging a low of 17.1°F.

Buchanan County gets 34.76" of precipitation a year, and 41% 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	37.4°	17.1°	0.71"
February	42.8°	21.2°	0.95"
March	55.1°	31.5°	2.06"
April	65.9°	41.8°	3.71"
May	75.8°	53.7°	4.87"
June	84.7°	63.8°	4.75"
July	88.1°	67.3°	4.73"
August	86.2°	64.5°	3.84"
September	79.7°	54.4°	3.18"
October	67.8°	42.8°	2.84"
November	53.4°	30.6°	1.87"
December	41.1°	21.1°	1.25"

Rainfall by month

Precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year here, with 41% falling in the wettest three months (May, Jun, Jul).

January 0.71"

February 0.95"

March 2.06"

April 3.71"

May 4.87"

June 4.75"

July 4.73"

August 3.84"

September 3.18"

October 2.84"

November 1.87"

December 1.25"

Annual total 34.76"

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 1,288

Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 5,385

Approximate annual cooling cost At 16.02¢/kWh, Missouri average $206

Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $302

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 Buchanan County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Buchanan County?

Buchanan County averages a high of 88.1°F in July and a low of 17.1°F in January. Annual precipitation is 34.76 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Buchanan County?

The wettest stretch is May, Jun, Jul, which accounts for 41% of the year's precipitation. Precipitation is relatively evenly distributed across the year.

How hot does it get in Buchanan County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 88.1°F. That drives 1,288 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Buchanan County?

The weather station used for Buchanan County, ST JOSEPH ROSECRANS AP, MO 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 34.76 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 ST JOSEPH ROSECRANS AP, MO US (USW00013993), 9.9 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, Missouri residential average.
Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.