Wade Hampton climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Wade Hampton?

Wade Hampton has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 15.3 °C and it receives 1,172 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Wade Hampton?

The hottest day measured in Wade Hampton between 1940 and 2025 was 30 June 2012, reaching 39.9 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Wade Hampton?

The coldest day measured in Wade Hampton between 1940 and 2025 was 9 January 1970, at -21.4 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Wade Hampton?

Yes. Wade Hampton gets on average 14.0 cm of snow per year and has around 58 frost days.

Q: Has the climate of Wade Hampton warmed?

Yes: Wade Hampton warmed by +1.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Wade Hampton?

The wettest day measured in Wade Hampton between 1940 and 2025 was 26 September 2024, with 191 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Wade Hampton?

The windiest day measured in Wade Hampton between 1940 and 2025 was 22 September 1989, with winds reaching 51.3 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Wade Hampton?

The warmest month in Wade Hampton is July (25.3 °C on average); the coldest is January (4.6 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Wade Hampton?

Wade Hampton receives on average 1,172 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 122 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Wade Hampton?

Wade Hampton gets on average 9.1 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,322 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Wade Hampton (United States) has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 15.3 °C and it receives 1,172 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is July (25.3 °C on average) and the coldest is January (4.6 °C). Rainfall peaks in March.

Wade Hampton averages 58 frost days, 60 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 122 rainy days per year.

Wade Hampton has warmed by +1.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.16 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The number of frost days there went from about 65 to 51 per year over the period.

The hottest day of the period reached 39.9 °C (on 30 June 2012) and the coldest -21.4 °C (on 9 January 1970).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

Wade HamptonSouth Carolina

coords: 34.90°, -82.33°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CfaHumid subtropicalWarmest monthJulyColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthMarchDriest monthOctober

Mean daily temperature

15.3°C

Average daily high

21.0°C

Average daily low

10.1°C

Annual rainfall

1,172mm

Sunshine / day

9.1h

Mean relative humidity

71%

Average peak wind

13.1km/h

Seasonal range

20.7°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

58 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

60 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

122 d/yr

Annual snowfall

14.0 cm

Average feels-like high

20.9 °C

Average feels-like low

9.0 °C

Average peak gust

32.0 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

60 d/yr

Solar radiation

16.0 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.4 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.31 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

39.9 °C

30 June 2012

Coldest day

-21.4 °C

9 January 1970

Wettest day

191 mm

26 September 2024

Windiest day

51.3 km/h

22 September 1989

Strongest gust

125.6 km/h

29 October 2020

Hottest feels-like

43.5 °C

21 August 1983

Coldest feels-like

-26.7 °C

9 January 1970

Snowiest day

27.5 cm

22 January 1987

Sunniest day

14.3 h

25 June 2024

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days	Frost days
2025	36.2 °C27 July 2025	-9.0 °C23 January 2025	15.9 °C	1,033 mm	56	49
2024	35.8 °C4 July 2024	-9.3 °C21 January 2024	16.4 °C	1,377 mm	70	46
2023	36.3 °C25 August 2023	-6.2 °C20 December 2023	16.7 °C	1,021 mm	69	32
2022	37.5 °C15 June 2022	-13.5 °C24 December 2022	16.1 °C	1,231 mm	75	53
2021	34.6 °C28 July 2021	-5.4 °C24 November 2021	16.3 °C	1,110 mm	76	44
2020	34.5 °C20 July 2020	-7.3 °C26 December 2020	16.3 °C	1,620 mm	61	35
2019	35.9 °C2 October 2019	-6.4 °C21 January 2019	17.0 °C	1,170 mm	110	37
2018	33.7 °C24 June 2018	-12.7 °C2 January 2018	16.0 °C	1,577 mm	74	53
2017	35.5 °C21 July 2017	-14.1 °C8 January 2017	16.9 °C	1,178 mm	75	37
2016	36.5 °C8 July 2016	-11.3 °C24 January 2016	17.1 °C	817 mm	111	52
2015	36.7 °C26 June 2015	-13.2 °C20 February 2015	16.5 °C	1,281 mm	82	50
2014	34.4 °C2 July 2014	-13.6 °C7 January 2014	15.1 °C	1,052 mm	66	58
2013	33.2 °C12 June 2013	-5.8 °C25 December 2013	15.1 °C	1,375 mm	31	60
2012	39.9 °C30 June 2012	-7.9 °C4 January 2012	16.6 °C	982 mm	59	34
2011	38.0 °C3 August 2011	-9.9 °C12 January 2011	16.4 °C	938 mm	100	50
2010	37.9 °C8 July 2010	-11.1 °C9 January 2010	15.5 °C	968 mm	100	74
2009	36.2 °C9 August 2009	-11.4 °C17 January 2009	15.4 °C	1,387 mm	67	57
2008	37.6 °C6 August 2008	-8.4 °C21 January 2008	15.6 °C	973 mm	79	58
2007	38.2 °C10 August 2007	-7.3 °C29 January 2007	16.5 °C	811 mm	90	58
2006	36.6 °C22 June 2006	-10.9 °C9 December 2006	15.9 °C	1,047 mm	67	48
2005	34.6 °C27 July 2005	-10.4 °C24 January 2005	15.2 °C	1,255 mm	44	59
2004	33.9 °C14 July 2004	-12.6 °C28 January 2004	15.4 °C	1,149 mm	47	69
2003	32.6 °C27 August 2003	-15.6 °C24 January 2003	14.7 °C	1,531 mm	19	62
2002	37.2 °C30 July 2002	-8.0 °C4 January 2002	15.9 °C	1,140 mm	87	59
2001	34.8 °C17 June 2001	-9.6 °C3 January 2001	15.7 °C	845 mm	51	50
2000	35.5 °C10 July 2000	-12.5 °C1 February 2000	15.0 °C	888 mm	67	64
1999	37.6 °C18 August 1999	-11.2 °C5 January 1999	15.5 °C	1,001 mm	58	56
1998	36.7 °C27 June 1998	-7.6 °C13 March 1998	16.4 °C	1,152 mm	96	37
1997	36.9 °C3 July 1997	-9.6 °C18 January 1997	14.8 °C	1,135 mm	59	50
1996	35.5 °C19 May 1996	-14.2 °C5 February 1996	14.5 °C	1,288 mm	42	75
1995	36.8 °C24 July 1995	-11.2 °C9 February 1995	15.1 °C	1,473 mm	55	63
1994	33.2 °C22 June 1994	-16.1 °C19 January 1994	15.1 °C	1,385 mm	31	49
1993	36.7 °C29 July 1993	-16.2 °C15 March 1993	15.3 °C	1,088 mm	78	55
1992	37.5 °C9 July 1992	-6.6 °C9 February 1992	14.8 °C	1,438 mm	48	61
1991	34.4 °C13 July 1991	-13.4 °C16 February 1991	15.5 °C	1,204 mm	52	49
1990	36.9 °C30 June 1990	-7.2 °C25 December 1990	16.2 °C	1,307 mm	66	38
1989	34.1 °C1 June 1989	-11.6 °C23 December 1989	14.7 °C	1,586 mm	40	59
1988	36.6 °C18 August 1988	-13.9 °C12 January 1988	14.6 °C	863 mm	82	71
1987	36.5 °C24 July 1987	-7.6 °C24 January 1987	15.0 °C	1,181 mm	64	66
1986	39.3 °C19 July 1986	-15.6 °C28 January 1986	15.8 °C	992 mm	85	59
1985	37.2 °C1 June 1985	-20.0 °C21 January 1985	15.3 °C	1,171 mm	60	70
1984	34.8 °C19 June 1984	-9.2 °C22 January 1984	15.0 °C	1,176 mm	56	59
1983	38.2 °C23 August 1983	-15.3 °C25 December 1983	14.4 °C	1,423 mm	62	68
1982	32.9 °C8 June 1982	-16.1 °C11 January 1982	15.0 °C	1,376 mm	36	58
1981	38.2 °C22 June 1981	-12.9 °C12 January 1981	14.9 °C	891 mm	83	79
1980	36.1 °C13 July 1980	-18.6 °C3 March 1980	14.7 °C	1,197 mm	78	69
1979	34.9 °C8 August 1979	-17.9 °C10 February 1979	14.3 °C	1,387 mm	31	70
1978	37.3 °C28 June 1978	-13.2 °C11 January 1978	14.7 °C	1,141 mm	61	67
1977	39.1 °C9 July 1977	-16.7 °C17 January 1977	15.3 °C	1,165 mm	81	77
1976	33.9 °C24 July 1976	-12.8 °C19 January 1976	14.2 °C	1,199 mm	31	71
1975	35.1 °C16 August 1975	-8.8 °C19 December 1975	15.3 °C	1,320 mm	46	55
1974	33.1 °C29 August 1974	-8.8 °C26 February 1974	15.6 °C	1,124 mm	36	40
1973	32.6 °C22 July 1973	-14.8 °C13 January 1973	15.1 °C	1,424 mm	30	56
1972	35.1 °C24 July 1972	-12.8 °C16 January 1972	15.1 °C	1,028 mm	51	46
1971	34.3 °C6 June 1971	-10.6 °C10 February 1971	15.3 °C	1,174 mm	34	61
1970	36.1 °C1 July 1970	-21.4 °C9 January 1970	15.0 °C	1,035 mm	54	68
1969	34.3 °C28 June 1969	-11.0 °C5 January 1969	14.1 °C	1,147 mm	44	77
1968	35.4 °C23 August 1968	-13.9 °C15 January 1968	14.0 °C	1,064 mm	41	90
1967	33.1 °C28 May 1967	-13.2 °C25 February 1967	14.4 °C	1,038 mm	19	61
1966	35.5 °C14 July 1966	-20.6 °C31 January 1966	14.2 °C	1,124 mm	51	70
1965	34.0 °C16 August 1965	-17.9 °C19 January 1965	15.0 °C	889 mm	43	66
1964	36.0 °C10 June 1964	-10.5 °C15 January 1964	14.8 °C	1,604 mm	47	59
1963	33.9 °C7 August 1963	-13.0 °C24 January 1963	14.4 °C	1,118 mm	47	77
1962	33.6 °C26 May 1962	-16.7 °C13 December 1962	14.8 °C	1,154 mm	58	55
1961	32.4 °C31 July 1961	-12.1 °C22 January 1961	14.5 °C	1,282 mm	31	61
1960	34.7 °C30 August 1960	-16.6 °C5 March 1960	14.5 °C	1,129 mm	78	81
1959	36.4 °C29 June 1959	-10.7 °C6 January 1959	15.6 °C	1,328 mm	61	51
1958	36.2 °C14 June 1958	-18.2 °C17 February 1958	14.6 °C	966 mm	88	74
1957	36.3 °C14 July 1957	-12.1 °C12 December 1957	15.9 °C	1,234 mm	69	43
1956	36.5 °C6 August 1956	-6.7 °C23 November 1956	15.8 °C	1,008 mm	87	59
1955	34.3 °C18 July 1955	-10.8 °C13 February 1955	15.5 °C	905 mm	71	64
1954	38.1 °C27 June 1954	-6.9 °C7 December 1954	15.8 °C	725 mm	105	71
1953	36.8 °C31 July 1953	-10.7 °C19 December 1953	15.9 °C	1,106 mm	76	49
1952	38.2 °C27 June 1952	-7.8 °C30 January 1952	15.6 °C	1,123 mm	75	50
1951	35.6 °C3 June 1951	-10.0 °C3 February 1951	15.2 °C	1,176 mm	72	59
1950	35.3 °C27 June 1950	-11.0 °C25 November 1950	15.3 °C	999 mm	35	61
1949	34.9 °C28 July 1949	-7.0 °C24 December 1949	15.8 °C	1,511 mm	39	40
1948	36.7 °C6 July 1948	-13.1 °C25 January 1948	15.4 °C	1,554 mm	58	48
1947	36.3 °C31 July 1947	-9.6 °C10 February 1947	14.2 °C	1,257 mm	49	75
1946	32.7 °C12 July 1946	-8.1 °C2 January 1946	15.1 °C	1,258 mm	20	50
1945	36.4 °C30 June 1945	-12.0 °C17 December 1945	14.8 °C	1,388 mm	43	57
1944	36.7 °C23 June 1944	-6.0 °C13 February 1944	15.0 °C	1,170 mm	47	51
1943	35.0 °C27 August 1943	-6.8 °C15 February 1943	14.7 °C	1,010 mm	49	59
1942	34.5 °C20 July 1942	-8.1 °C4 March 1942	14.8 °C	1,159 mm	31	64
1941	33.6 °C29 May 1941	-5.5 °C18 March 1941	15.1 °C	978 mm	45	70
1940	33.9 °C27 July 1940	-20.1 °C27 January 1940	13.9 °C	1,270 mm	25	64

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

21.7 °C

+0.7 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

56 d/yr

-4

Frost days (< 0 °C)

49 d/yr

-9

Annual rainfall

1033 mm

-139 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	8.7 °C	-1.4 °C	44 mm	-63 mm
Feb	15.1 °C	+2.8 °C	83 mm	-20 mm
Mar	19.6 °C	+3.1 °C	66 mm	-56 mm
Apr	23.1 °C	+1.6 °C	98 mm	+0 mm
May	24.0 °C	-1.7 °C	196 mm	+107 mm
Jun	30.4 °C	+1.1 °C	95 mm	+11 mm
Jul	33.0 °C	+2.3 °C	78 mm	-22 mm
Aug	27.2 °C	-2.7 °C	209 mm	+108 mm
Sep	26.7 °C	-0.1 °C	29 mm	-66 mm
Oct	21.5 °C	-0.2 °C	82 mm	-1 mm
Nov	18.1 °C	+2.0 °C	16 mm	-73 mm
Dec	12.6 °C	+1.3 °C	38 mm	-63 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

36.2 °C

27 Jul 2025

Coldest day

-9.0 °C

23 Jan 2025

Wettest day

71.5 mm

12 May 2025

Windiest day

29.6 km/h

5 Mar 2025

Strongest gust

90.4 km/h

16 Feb 2025

Hottest feels-like

41.4 °C

25 Jun 2025

Coldest feels-like

-13.5 °C

22 Jan 2025

Snowiest day

6.4 cm

10 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

13.9 h

5 Jul 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Wade Hampton?

Wade Hampton has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 15.3 °C and it receives 1,172 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Wade Hampton?

The hottest day measured in Wade Hampton between 1940 and 2025 was 30 June 2012, reaching 39.9 °C.

What is the coldest day in Wade Hampton?

The coldest day measured in Wade Hampton between 1940 and 2025 was 9 January 1970, at -21.4 °C.

Does it snow in Wade Hampton?

Yes. Wade Hampton gets on average 14.0 cm of snow per year and has around 58 frost days.

Has the climate of Wade Hampton warmed?

Yes: Wade Hampton warmed by +1.4 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Wade Hampton?

The wettest day measured in Wade Hampton between 1940 and 2025 was 26 September 2024, with 191 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Wade Hampton?

The windiest day measured in Wade Hampton between 1940 and 2025 was 22 September 1989, with winds reaching 51.3 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Wade Hampton?

The warmest month in Wade Hampton is July (25.3 °C on average); the coldest is January (4.6 °C).

How much does it rain in Wade Hampton?

Wade Hampton receives on average 1,172 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 122 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Wade Hampton?

Wade Hampton gets on average 9.1 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,322 hours per year over 1940-2025.

What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Wade Hampton?

The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Wade Hampton between 1940 and 2025 was 22 January 1987, with 27.5 cm.

Are there tropical nights in Wade Hampton?

Yes: Wade Hampton has on average 60 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Wade Hampton?

In Wade Hampton, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 43.5 °C on 21 August 1983, and the lowest was -26.7 °C on 9 January 1970.

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