United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Backbone.

September leads for comfortable weather in Backbone: typically 24.8°C by day, 11.1°C at night, with 90 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high24.8°C

Typical low11.1°C

Rain in September90 mm

Comfort

September

September · August · June

79climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

64climate match

Outdoors

October

October · September · April

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 79 — days reach only 4.8°C, 19° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -6.2°C.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

54.8° / -6.2°

Feb

57° / -5.1°

Mar

1511.9° / -2°

Apr

4518.5° / 2.7°

May

6422.6° / 8.2°

Jun

7326.2° / 12.9°

Jul

7028.1° / 15.4°

Aug

7527.7° / 14.8°

Sep

7924.8° / 11.1°

Oct

5519° / 4.1°

Nov

2512.6° / -1.6°

Dec

56.9° / -4.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Backbone — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	4.8°C	-6.2°C	76 mm	8.5	9 h 49	5	Strong coverage
February	7°C	-5.1°C	72 mm	8.2	10 h 44	5	Strong coverage
March	11.9°C	-2°C	92 mm	9.5	11 h 50	15	Strong coverage
April	18.5°C	2.7°C	93 mm	10	13 h 07	45	Strong coverage
May	22.6°C	8.2°C	116 mm	11.8	14 h 11	64	Strong coverage
June	26.2°C	12.9°C	104 mm	10.4	14 h 46	73	Strong coverage
July	28.1°C	15.4°C	104 mm	10.2	14 h 32	70	Strong coverage
August	27.7°C	14.8°C	84 mm	9.4	13 h 37	75	Strong coverage
September	24.8°C	11.1°C	90 mm	7.6	12 h 23	79	Strong coverage
October	19°C	4.1°C	69 mm	7.1	11 h 09	55	Strong coverage
November	12.6°C	-1.6°C	65 mm	6.8	10 h 05	25	Strong coverage
December	6.9°C	-4.2°C	85 mm	9.2	9 h 34	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Backbone runs -0.7°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

-0.8

Feb

+0.4

Mar

-1.2

Apr

-0.6

May

-1.6

Jun

-1.2

Jul

-0.5

Aug

-1.1

Sep

-0.4

Oct

-0.8

Nov

-1.0

Dec

+0.9

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.5°C.

Records at WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, 1895–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	25.0°C26 Jan 1950	-28.3°C21 Jan 1918	69 mm20 Jan 1898	245 mm1898 · driest 0 mm in 1896	111
February	26.1°C26 Feb 1977	-26.7°C6 Feb 1996	53 mm24 Feb 1984	225 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 1896	112
March	31.1°C25 Mar 1929	-22.2°C8 Mar 1960	84 mm12 Mar 1963	210 mm1935 · driest 0 mm in 1896	112
April	35.6°C25 Apr 1925	-11.1°C8 Apr 1896	86 mm5 Apr 1977	180 mm1987 · driest 15 mm in 1942	112
May	35.6°C22 May 1941	-6.1°C1 May 1927	60 mm6 May 2018	197 mm2003 · driest 28 mm in 1964	112
June	37.2°C10 Jun 1974	-1.1°C2 Jun 1966	211 mm24 Jun 2016	329 mm2016 · driest 8 mm in 1898	113
July	38.9°C14 Jul 1954	2.2°C10 Jul 1961	89 mm19 Jul 1954	241 mm1938 · driest 15 mm in 2011	113
August	37.8°C21 Aug 1983	2.2°C29 Aug 1986	77 mm20 Aug 1969	291 mm1984 · driest 14 mm in 1976	112
September	39.4°C9 Sep 1985	-3.3°C28 Sep 1942	84 mm29 Sep 1967	261 mm2004 · driest 5 mm in 1985	113
October	33.9°C4 Oct 2019	-12.8°C27 Oct 1962	93 mm16 Oct 1954	186 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 2000	112
November	27.8°C2 Nov 1927	-18.3°C30 Nov 1929	90 mm5 Nov 1985	208 mm1985 · driest 3 mm in 2001	110
December	25.0°C7 Dec 1951	-36.7°C30 Dec 1917	58 mm9 Dec 2009	180 mm2009 · driest 7 mm in 1965	110

Typical days per month at WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	26	3	3
February	0	0	24	2	3
March	<1	0	21	3	2
April	5	<1	11	3	<1
May	13	1	2	4	0
June	21	4	0	3	0
July	27	10	0	4	0
August	26	8	0	3	0
September	16	3	<1	3	0
October	4	<1	8	2	<1
November	<1	0	21	3	<1
December	0	0	25	3	2

How often, not how much — every day in WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	1%	29%	9%	33%	2.3–9.0°C
February	2%	30%	10%	37%	4.3–11.6°C
March	14%	31%	11%	39%	8.8–16.7°C
April	38%	32%	10%	41%	16.6–22.4°C
May	55%	36%	12%	47%	20.9–26.8°C
June	66%	32%	11%	40%	25.6–29.3°C
July	66%	33%	12%	42%	27.4–31.1°C
August	70%	29%	10%	32%	26.5–30.2°C
September	70%	24%	9%	24%	23.1–27.8°C
October	48%	21%	8%	21%	17.6–22.5°C
November	12%	25%	8%	26%	9.8–16.0°C
December	2%	28%	9%	32%	4.0–10.2°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1896Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 104-year average. Warmest: 1973. Coolest: 1988.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4745185
NOAA station: USC00469522 · WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
Station distance: 13.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 37.77°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS is what differs

White Sulphur Springs→Alleghany→Crows→Earlehurst→Hematite→Iron Hill Springs→

Or put two places side by side: Backbone vs White Sulphur Springs

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