This weather has a price Keeping the median Lancaster County home comfortable runs roughly $487 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Lancaster County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

87.2°

average daily high. The coldest month is January, averaging a low of 30.1°F.

Lancaster County gets 46.32" of precipitation a year, and 30% of it falls in Jul, Aug, Sep.

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	45.6°	30.1°	3.26"
February	48.3°	31.4°	2.81"
March	55.7°	37.2°	3.90"
April	67.0°	46.8°	3.97"
May	75.2°	56.7°	3.92"
June	84.5°	66.1°	4.04"
July	87.2°	71.2°	4.85"
August	85.0°	68.0°	4.56"
September	79.4°	61.9°	4.34"
October	69.1°	51.2°	4.22"
November	58.5°	41.4°	3.13"
December	49.7°	33.3°	3.32"

Rainfall by month

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

January 3.26"

February 2.81"

March 3.90"

April 3.97"

May 3.92"

June 4.04"

July 4.85"

August 4.56"

September 4.34"

October 4.22"

November 3.13"

December 3.32"

Annual total 46.32"

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 1,477

Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 3,867

Approximate annual cooling cost At 17.22¢/kWh, Virginia average $254

Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $233

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 Lancaster County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Lancaster County?

Lancaster County averages a high of 87.2°F in July and a low of 30.1°F in January. Annual precipitation is 46.32 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Lancaster County?

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

How hot does it get in Lancaster County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 87.2°F. That drives 1,477 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Lancaster County?

The weather station used for Lancaster County, ST INIGOES WEBSTER NOLF, MD 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 46.32 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 INIGOES WEBSTER NOLF, MD US (USW00003757), 30.2 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, Virginia residential average.
Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.