This weather has a price Keeping the median Oglethorpe County home comfortable runs roughly $450 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Oglethorpe County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

90.8°

average daily high. The coldest month is January, averaging a low of 32.0°F.

Oglethorpe County gets 49.53" of precipitation a year, and 29% of it falls in Dec, Jan, Feb.

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	54.8°	32.0°	4.30"
February	58.1°	35.8°	4.96"
March	65.8°	40.3°	4.72"
April	73.6°	47.7°	3.61"
May	81.1°	56.6°	3.30"
June	88.2°	65.0°	4.50"
July	90.8°	69.0°	3.93"
August	88.4°	67.8°	4.78"
September	84.9°	61.5°	3.83"
October	75.5°	50.4°	2.97"
November	64.8°	39.6°	3.76"
December	56.8°	34.6°	4.87"

Rainfall by month

Precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year here, with 29% falling in the wettest three months (Dec, Jan, Feb).

January 4.30"

February 4.96"

March 4.72"

April 3.61"

May 3.30"

June 4.50"

July 3.93"

August 4.78"

September 3.83"

October 2.97"

November 3.76"

December 4.87"

Annual total 49.53"

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 1,744

Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 2,884

Approximate annual cooling cost At 16.36¢/kWh, Georgia average $285

Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $165

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 Oglethorpe County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Oglethorpe County?

Oglethorpe County averages a high of 90.8°F in July and a low of 32.0°F in January. Annual precipitation is 49.53 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Oglethorpe County?

The wettest stretch is Dec, Jan, Feb, which accounts for 29% of the year's precipitation. Precipitation is relatively evenly distributed across the year.

How hot does it get in Oglethorpe County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 90.8°F. That drives 1,744 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Oglethorpe County?

Effectively no. Measurable snowfall is rare in Oglethorpe County.

Sources

Temperature, precipitation and snowfall normals: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 1991 to 2020 Monthly Climate Normals, station LEXINGTON, GA US (USC00095165), 2.3 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, Georgia residential average.
Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.