United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Gate City.

September leads for comfortable weather in Gate City: typically 27.5°C by day, 14.8°C at night, with 79 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high27.5°C

Typical low14.8°C

Rain in September79 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · October

78climate match

Beach

August

August · June · September

72climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · May

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 78 — days reach only 8.2°C, 16° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

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

58.2° / -2.3°

Feb

1310.8° / -0.9°

Mar

3415.9° / 2.7°

Apr

6321.6° / 7.3°

May

7425.7° / 12.3°

Jun

6629.2° / 16.7°

Jul

5030.7° / 18.9°

Aug

6030.3° / 18.2°

Sep

7827.5° / 14.8°

Oct

7321.7° / 8°

Nov

3815.2° / 2.2°

Dec

99.9° / -0.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Gate City — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	8.2°C	-2.3°C	97 mm	9.7	9 h 54	5	Strong coverage
February	10.8°C	-0.9°C	100 mm	9.5	10 h 47	13	Strong coverage
March	15.9°C	2.7°C	108 mm	11	11 h 51	34	Strong coverage
April	21.6°C	7.3°C	99 mm	9.6	13 h 05	63	Strong coverage
May	25.7°C	12.3°C	96 mm	10.3	14 h 06	74	Strong coverage
June	29.2°C	16.7°C	90 mm	9.5	14 h 39	66	Strong coverage
July	30.7°C	18.9°C	133 mm	11.5	14 h 26	50	Strong coverage
August	30.3°C	18.2°C	95 mm	8.5	13 h 33	60	Strong coverage
September	27.5°C	14.8°C	79 mm	7.1	12 h 22	78	Strong coverage
October	21.7°C	8°C	62 mm	6.7	11 h 11	73	Strong coverage
November	15.2°C	2.2°C	78 mm	7.9	10 h 10	38	Strong coverage
December	9.9°C	-0.7°C	105 mm	10.1	9 h 40	9	Strong coverage

What has changed

Gate City runs +0.3°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

+0.4

Feb

+1.5

Mar

0.0

Apr

-0.1

May

-0.1

Jun

+0.2

Jul

+0.3

Aug

-0.4

Sep

+0.3

Oct

0.0

Nov

-0.5

Dec

+1.5

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 26.6°C.

Records at KINGSPORT, 1916–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.1°C29 Jan 1947	-27.8°C21 Jan 1985	67 mm11 Jan 2008	234 mm2013 · driest 39 mm in 1981	95
February	27.8°C21 Feb 2018	-23.9°C5 Feb 1996	61 mm6 Feb 2020	269 mm2019 · driest 8 mm in 2010	93
March	31.7°C25 Mar 1929	-18.9°C3 Mar 1980	87 mm18 Mar 2002	260 mm1955 · driest 20 mm in 2016	94
April	33.3°C29 Apr 2017	-7.8°C1 Apr 1923	71 mm16 Apr 1956	233 mm1998 · driest 12 mm in 1986	93
May	36.7°C21 May 1934	-1.1°C4 May 1971	101 mm30 May 1927	359 mm1929 · driest 3 mm in 1936	95
June	40.0°C30 Jun 1936	3.9°C1 Jun 1966	84 mm11 Jun 2021	235 mm1928 · driest 10 mm in 2008	94
July	38.9°C1 Jul 1936	7.8°C10 Jul 1961	89 mm10 Jul 2021	261 mm2005 · driest 24 mm in 1925	95
August	39.4°C5 Aug 1930	7.2°C31 Aug 1946	105 mm3 Aug 1972	220 mm2023 · driest 15 mm in 1953	94
September	38.9°C1 Sep 1932	0.0°C30 Sep 1947	82 mm17 Sep 1962	192 mm1928 · driest 0 mm in 2019	96
October	35.0°C1 Oct 2019	-7.2°C27 Oct 1962	94 mm16 Oct 2021	193 mm2021 · driest 1 mm in 2000	96
November	28.3°C4 Nov 2003	-16.7°C30 Nov 1929	58 mm27 Nov 1993	184 mm1985 · driest 15 mm in 2012	95
December	26.7°C7 Dec 1951	-21.7°C14 Dec 1917	114 mm19 Dec 2009	249 mm1991 · driest 8 mm in 1965	96

Typical days per month at KINGSPORT, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	20	3	1
February	<1	0	17	3	<1
March	2	0	10	4	<1
April	10	<1	2	4	0
May	20	5	0	3	0
June	27	14	0	3	0
July	30	21	0	5	0
August	30	18	0	3	0
September	23	9	0	3	0
October	10	<1	2	2	0
November	1	0	12	3	<1
December	0	0	19	4	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 81); on 2011–2025 it is May (82). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in KINGSPORT’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	2%	34%	12%	41%	4.8–12.0°C
February	5%	34%	13%	45%	7.5–14.4°C
March	22%	34%	12%	44%	12.6–19.2°C
April	50%	32%	11%	38%	19.5–24.0°C
May	62%	33%	12%	42%	23.8–27.8°C
June	68%	33%	11%	41%	28.0–31.0°C
July	65%	36%	15%	44%	29.0–32.5°C
August	70%	30%	12%	31%	28.9–32.4°C
September	75%	23%	9%	20%	25.6–30.5°C
October	59%	21%	7%	22%	20.1–24.5°C
November	19%	27%	9%	32%	12.7–17.8°C
December	3%	32%	11%	41%	6.9–13.2°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.

1926Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 82-year average. Warmest: 1934. Coolest: 1963.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4760593
NOAA station: USC00404858 · KINGSPORT
Station distance: 14 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 36.64°, 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 KINGSPORT is what differs

Kingsport→Bloomingdale→Colonial Heights→Church Hill→Mount Carmel→Fall Branch→

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