Climate and average weather in Milledgeville

In Milledgeville, the summers are muggy, hot, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are cool and partly cloudy.

Best: early March to mid May

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Milledgeville typically varies from 37°F to 91°F, and is rarely below 24°F or above 97°F. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Milledgeville for warm-weather activities are from early March to mid May and late September to late November.

Hottest
Jul
91°
Coldest
Jan
37°
Wettest
Feb
4.0 in
Driest
May
2.6 in
Rain / yr
42.3 in
117 wet days
Daylight
9.8–14.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
344 ft
33.1°N
Clearest
Oct
46% cloud

Milledgeville is city in and county seat of Baldwin County, Georgia, United States.

Density
355/km²
people per km²
Founded
1804

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Milledgeville weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early March to mid May.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Milledgeville, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.4 months, from May 14 to September 25, with daily high temperatures above 83°F. The hottest month of the year in Milledgeville is July, with an average high of 91°F and low of 73°F.

The cool season lasts 3.0 months, from November 27 to February 25, with daily high temperatures below 64°F. The coldest month of the year in Milledgeville is January, with an average low of 37°F and high of 57°F.

Days typically run about 20°F warmer than nights year-round.

20°40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan5737
Feb6140
Mar6846
Apr7654
May8362
Jun8869
Jul9173
Aug9072
Sep8566
Oct7655
Nov6644
Dec5940

How hot and cold Milledgeville really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Milledgeville feels like about 98°F (around July 24). About 92 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about 31°F (around January 19), with roughly 17 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 32°F), worst in January.

20°40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°F)Air high (°F)Feels-like low (°F)Air low (°F)
Jan57573237
Feb61613640
Mar68684346
Apr76765454
May83836262
Jun92886969
Jul97917373
Aug95907272
Sep87856666
Oct76765555
Nov66664144
Dec59593540

Average hourly temperature in Milledgeville

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 91°F, and coldest before dawn in January, near 37°F.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Milledgeville weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°F)Rainfall (inches)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan57° / 37°3.99.810.14.1
Feb61° / 40°4.08.510.85.1
Mar68° / 46°4.09.211.76.5
Apr76° / 54°3.07.912.87.2
May83° / 62°2.68.313.76.1
Jun88° / 69°4.013.414.14.0
Jul91° / 73°4.014.8143.2
Aug90° / 72°3.613.613.23.5
Sep85° / 66°3.68.512.25.5
Oct76° / 55°2.96.711.27.5
Nov66° / 44°3.07.210.36.7
Dec59° / 40°3.79.39.94.7

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Milledgeville gets about 42.3 in of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.4 months, from around May 24 to Sep 5, peaking in July at about 49% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 19.

February is the wettest month by volume, with 4.0 in over about 9 wet days; May is the driest, with 2.6 in.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 23 · 49%Oct 19 · 21%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3110
Feb319
Mar299
Apr278
May288
Jun4313
Jul4815
Aug4414
Sep299
Oct227
Nov247
Dec309

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Milledgeville collects about 42.3 in of rain across 117 wet days — roughly 3.5 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. February is the wettest month with 4.0 in, while May is the driest at just 2.6 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 28% of the year’s total.

012345JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec3.94.04.03.02.64.04.03.63.62.93.03.7
Rainfall (in)Rain days
Jan3.910
Feb4.09
Mar4.09
Apr3.08
May2.68
Jun4.013
Jul4.015
Aug3.614
Sep3.69
Oct2.97
Nov3.07
Dec3.79

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Milledgeville, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around August 30 and lasts for 3.1 months, ending around December 2. The clearest month is October, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 60% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 24 and lasts for 2.2 months, ending around August 29. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 54% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecOct 23 · 64%Aug 6 · 44%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4852
Feb4654
Mar5149
Apr5446
May5545
Jun5248
Jul4852
Aug4753
Sep5644
Oct6040
Nov5743
Dec4753

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 13, brings about 14 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.17:415:43
Feb10.87:246:11
Mar11.76:506:35
Apr12.86:096:58
May13.75:387:20
Jun14.15:287:38
Jul14.05:397:38
Aug13.26:007:14
Sep12.26:216:33
Oct11.26:435:53
Nov10.37:105:26
Dec9.97:345:24

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Milledgeville averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.6 months, from around Sep 9 to Dec 26. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is August, down near 8 sunny days — about 47% fewer than the October peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightOct 2616 daysAug 67 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr12Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun8Mixed
Jul7Gloomy
Aug8Gloomy
Sep11Mixed
Oct15Mixed
Nov14Mixed
Dec11Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Milledgeville, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around May 11 to October 10. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 11 to May 10, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 97% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 28 · 99%Jul 15 · 2%oppressivecomfortablehumidmuggydrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan9163000
Feb8983000
Mar80146000
Apr622014300
May2722252340
Jun381935350
Jul02629602
Aug13829562
Sep11122233220
Oct4917191230
Nov80107300
Dec8874100

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Milledgeville is typically calm, near 6 mph, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Oct 29 to May 9. The windiest month is March, averaging about 7 mph (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 10 to Oct 28, with August the calmest month at about 4 mph.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeMar 6 · 7 mphAug 9 · 4 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Milledgeville

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Milledgeville throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid March, Milledgeville is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 64°F and 82°F. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Milledgeville for general outdoor tourist activities run from early March to mid May and again from late September to late November, with a peak score in the third week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 20 · 7.8

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan4.2fair
Feb5.1fair
Mar6.6good
Apr7.2good
May6.0good
Jun4.0fair
Jul3.2poor
Aug3.5fair
Sep5.5fair
Oct7.4good
Nov6.6good
Dec4.7fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 75°F and 93°F. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Milledgeville for hot-weather activities run from early April to late June and again from late August to late October, with a peak score in the second week of May.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 14 · 7.3

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Milledgeville, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 91°F), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 57°F), pack a warm layer and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Milledgeville sees daytime highs around 91°F and nights near 73°F. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Milledgeville by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Milledgeville peaks around July 11 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 3 (moderate).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 11 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateJul 11UV 9Dec 19UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan3Moderate
Feb5Moderate
Mar6High
Apr7High
May8Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep7Very high
Oct5High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Milledgeville

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan2.50
Feb4.50
Mar5.50
Apr6.53
May7.54.5
Jun85.5
Jul85
Aug7.54.5
Sep6.53
Oct50
Nov40
Dec00

Air quality in Milledgeville by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Milledgeville is worst in July — around 19 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.4× the cleanest month (January, 8 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodModerateGoodJul 1619 µg/m³Jan 138 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan8Good
Feb11Good
Mar13Moderate
Apr11Good
May13Moderate
Jun17Moderate
Jul19Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov11Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

Milledgeville is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 12 to November 15 (249 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 1290%Nov 1590%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan6931
Feb8028
Mar9311
Apr990
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov8913
Dec7731

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 50°F)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 50°F: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Milledgeville banks about 5,637 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°F·days)
Jan0
Feb31
Mar222
Apr443
May701
Jun869
Jul988
Aug959
Sep769
Oct484
Nov163
Dec8

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Milledgeville receives about 4.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.4 and 6.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Mar 14 to Sep 20. The brightest month is May, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.5 kWh/m² — roughly 60% less than the May peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMay 126.3 kWhDec 222.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.8Moderate
Feb3.4Moderate
Mar4.6Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May6.2Intense
Jun6.1Intense
Jul6.0Intense
Aug5.4Bright
Sep4.7Bright
Oct3.9Moderate
Nov3.1Moderate
Dec2.4Moderate

Where is Milledgeville?

Milledgeville sits at 33.1°N, 83.2°W, 344 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Macon, 29 mi away.

Topography around Milledgeville

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 2, 10 and 50 miles of Milledgeville.

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Milledgeville has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 230 ft around an average of 344 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 453 ft; within 50 miles, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 843 ft.

The land around Milledgeville is covered by trees (68%) within 2 miles, trees (79%) within 10 miles, and trees (82%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
230 ft
10 miles
453 ft
50 miles
843 ft
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Macon 29 mi · Warner Robins 39 mi · Dublin 42 mi · Perry 52 mi · McDonough 58 mi · Griffin 61 mi · Conyers 61 mi · Athens 62 mi

United States travel facts

Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 100% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$90,027
2025
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
98%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
5.8
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
12.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Protestant 47%unaffiliated 23%Roman Catholic 21%Jewish 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Milledgeville (33.0801°, -83.2321°, elevation 344 ft), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).