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This weather has a price Keeping the median Queens County home comfortable runs roughly $802 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Queens County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

83.6°

average daily high. The coldest month is January, averaging a low of 26.2°F.

Queens County gets 43.29" of precipitation a year and 25.9" of snow, and 27% of it falls in Jun, Jul, Aug.

Temperature through the year

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

40° 60° 80° JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
MonthAvg highAvg low PrecipSnow
January 39.5° 26.2° 3.23" 7.5"
February 41.7° 27.4° 2.76" 8.6"
March 48.7° 33.6° 3.94" 4.3"
April 58.8° 42.9° 3.55" 0.6"
May 68.4° 52.5° 3.66" 0.0"
June 78.0° 62.4° 3.85" 0.0"
July 83.6° 68.7° 3.86" 0.0"
August 82.2° 67.8° 4.11" 0.0"
September 75.8° 61.0° 3.58" 0.0"
October 64.7° 49.8° 3.72" 0.0"
November 53.8° 39.8° 3.07" 0.4"
December 44.5° 32.0° 3.96" 4.5"

Rainfall by month

Precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year here, with 27% falling in the wettest three months (Jun, Jul, Aug).

January 3.23"
February 2.76"
March 3.94"
April 3.55"
May 3.66"
June 3.85"
July 3.86"
August 4.11"
September 3.58"
October 3.72"
November 3.07"
December 3.96"
Annual total 43.29"

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 1,016
Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 4,872
Approximate annual cooling cost At 29.49¢/kWh, New York average $300
Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $503

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 Queens County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Queens County?

Queens County averages a high of 83.6°F in July and a low of 26.2°F in January. Annual precipitation is 43.29 inches, including 25.9 inches of snow.

When is the rainy season in Queens County?

The wettest stretch is Jun, Jul, Aug, which accounts for 27% of the year's precipitation. Precipitation is relatively evenly distributed across the year.

How hot does it get in Queens County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 83.6°F. That drives 1,016 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Queens County?

Yes. Queens County averages 25.9 inches of snow a year.

Sources

  • Temperature, precipitation and snowfall normals: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 1991 to 2020 Monthly Climate Normals, station NEW YORK JFK INTL AP, NY US (USW00094789), 4.3 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, New York residential average.
  • Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.