This weather has a price Keeping the median Sussex County home comfortable runs roughly $678 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Sussex County Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: July

83.6°

average daily high. The coldest month is January, averaging a low of 18.0°F.

Sussex County gets 40.95" of precipitation a year, and 29% of it falls in Aug, Sep, Oct.

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	36.0°	18.0°	2.63"
February	39.3°	19.6°	2.16"
March	47.7°	27.3°	3.20"
April	60.9°	36.7°	3.43"
May	71.4°	47.1°	3.73"
June	79.5°	55.8°	3.68"
July	83.6°	60.9°	4.06"
August	82.0°	59.6°	3.93"
September	74.6°	50.9°	3.83"
October	63.5°	40.3°	4.23"
November	51.4°	30.9°	2.97"
December	40.7°	23.9°	3.10"

Rainfall by month

Precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year here, with 29% falling in the wettest three months (Aug, Sep, Oct).

January 2.63"

February 2.16"

March 3.20"

April 3.43"

May 3.73"

June 3.68"

July 4.06"

August 3.93"

September 3.83"

October 4.23"

November 2.97"

December 3.10"

Annual total 40.95"

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 639

Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 6,048

Approximate annual cooling cost At 24.61¢/kWh, New Jersey average $157

Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $521

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 Sussex County, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Sussex County?

Sussex County averages a high of 83.6°F in July and a low of 18.0°F in January. Annual precipitation is 40.95 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Sussex County?

The wettest stretch is Aug, Sep, Oct, which accounts for 29% of the year's precipitation. Precipitation is relatively evenly distributed across the year.

How hot does it get in Sussex County?

The average daily high in July, the hottest month, is 83.6°F. That drives 639 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Sussex County?

The weather station used for Sussex County, SUSSEX AP, NJ 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 40.95 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 SUSSEX AP, NJ US (USW00054793), 5.6 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 Jersey residential average.
Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.