Climate and average weather in Prattville

In Prattville, 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 Prattville typically varies from 38°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 Prattville for warm-weather activities are from early March to mid May and late September to late November.

Hottest
Jul
91°
Coldest
Jan
38°
Wettest
Mar
4.7 in
Driest
Oct
2.8 in
Rain / yr
46.1 in
118 wet days
Daylight
9.9–14.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
328 ft
32.5°N
Clearest
Oct
44% cloud

Prattville is city in Alabama, United States of America.

Density
405/km²
people per km²
Founded
1818

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

Prattville 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 Prattville, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.6 months, from May 13 to September 30, with daily high temperatures above 83°F. The hottest month of the year in Prattville is July, with an average high of 91°F and low of 74°F.

The cool season lasts 2.9 months, from November 28 to February 24, with daily high temperatures below 64°F. The coldest month of the year in Prattville is January, with an average low of 38°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)
Jan5738
Feb6141
Mar6947
Apr7654
May8363
Jun8971
Jul9174
Aug9173
Sep8768
Oct7756
Nov6746
Dec5940

How hot and cold Prattville 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, Prattville feels like about 99°F (around July 21). About 103 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°F)Air high (°F)Feels-like low (°F)Air low (°F)
Jan57573338
Feb61613741
Mar69694447
Apr76765454
May84836363
Jun93897171
Jul98917474
Aug97917373
Sep89876868
Oct77775656
Nov67674246
Dec59593640

Average hourly temperature in Prattville

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 38°F.

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

Prattville 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° / 38°4.59.810.14.1
Feb61° / 41°4.59.610.85.1
Mar69° / 47°4.79.811.86.5
Apr76° / 54°4.08.312.87.2
May83° / 63°3.29.213.65.9
Jun89° / 71°3.711.914.14.0
Jul91° / 74°3.914.513.93.2
Aug91° / 73°3.412.813.23.5
Sep87° / 68°2.97.712.25.1
Oct77° / 56°2.86.611.27.5
Nov67° / 46°3.97.610.36.7
Dec59° / 40°4.6109.94.6

Chance of rain

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

Prattville gets about 46.1 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 3.2 months, from around May 27 to Aug 30, peaking in July at about 47% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Oct 5.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 4.7 in over about 10 wet days; October is the driest, with 2.8 in.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 15 · 47%Oct 5 · 22%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3210
Feb3310
Mar3110
Apr298
May309
Jun4012
Jul4615
Aug4113
Sep268
Oct227
Nov258
Dec3210

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Prattville collects about 46.1 in of rain across 118 wet days — roughly 3.8 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 4.7 in, while October is the driest at just 2.8 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 30% of the year’s total.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec4.54.54.74.03.23.73.93.42.92.83.94.6
Rainfall (in)Rain days
Jan4.510
Feb4.510
Mar4.710
Apr4.08
May3.29
Jun3.712
Jul3.915
Aug3.413
Sep2.98
Oct2.87
Nov3.98
Dec4.610

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Prattville, 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 11 and lasts for 3.6 months, ending around November 28. The clearest month is October, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 61% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 29 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around April 8. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 55% 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 22 · 61%Jan 1 · 44%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4654
Feb4555
Mar4951
Apr5446
May5545
Jun5248
Jul5050
Aug5446
Sep5941
Oct6139
Nov5743
Dec4555

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 8, brings about 14 h 06 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 54 min — a swing of roughly 4 h 12 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan10.16:534:58
Feb10.86:365:25
Mar11.86:035:48
Apr12.85:226:10
May13.64:526:32
Jun14.14:426:50
Jul13.94:536:50
Aug13.25:146:26
Sep12.25:345:46
Oct11.25:555:06
Nov10.36:224:40
Dec9.96:464:38

Sunny days

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

Prattville averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 8 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.0 months, from around Sep 5 to Dec 3. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 15 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is July, down near 8 sunny days — about 46% fewer than the October peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightOct 2116 daysJul 278 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May12Mixed
Jun10Mixed
Jul8Mixed
Aug10Mixed
Sep13Mixed
Oct15Bright
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 Prattville, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around May 6 to October 8. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around October 9 to May 5, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 95% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 30 · 97%Jul 15 · 1%oppressivemuggycomfortablehumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan8875000
Feb84106100
Mar731610200
Apr532218700
May2117253060
Jun261535411
Jul01618695
Aug131024576
Sep10142030260
Oct4717171440
Nov77128400
Dec84105100

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 Prattville is typically calm, near 6 mph, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.2 months, from around Sep 30 to May 6. The windiest month is March, averaging about 7 mph (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 7 to Sep 29, with August the calmest month at about 5 mph.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeMar 2 · 7 mphAug 7 · 4 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul4calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Prattville

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid March, Prattville 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 Prattville 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 last week of October.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 22 · 7.7

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
Jan4.1fair
Feb5.1fair
Mar6.5good
Apr7.1good
May5.9good
Jun4.0fair
Jul3.3poor
Aug3.5poor
Sep5.1fair
Oct7.4good
Nov6.7good
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 Prattville for hot-weather activities run from mid April to late June and again from late August to late October, with a peak score in the last week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 29 · 7.5

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 Prattville, 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, Prattville sees daytime highs around 91°F and nights near 74°F. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Prattville 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 Prattville peaks around July 15 at about 10 (extreme) — 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 highVery highHighModerateJul 15UV 10Dec 19UV 3
UV index (midday)Level
Jan4Moderate
Feb5High
Mar7High
Apr8Very high
May9Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug9Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct5High
Nov4Moderate
Dec3Moderate

Average hourly UV index in Prattville

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 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5.5 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)
Jan30
Feb50
Mar63
Apr7.54.5
May85
Jun8.55.5
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.55
Sep6.53.5
Oct5.50
Nov40
Dec10

Air quality in Prattville 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 Prattville is worst in July — around 20 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.2× the cleanest month (January, 6 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1820 µg/m³Jan 146 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan6Good
Feb8Good
Mar10Good
Apr10Good
May12Good
Jun16Moderate
Jul20Moderate
Aug18Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct11Good
Nov8Good
Dec7Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

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

Prattville is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 8 to November 19 (257 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 890%Nov 1990%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan7131
Feb8128
Mar947
Apr990
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct990
Nov918
Dec7931

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. Prattville banks about 5,878 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
Feb44
Mar247
Apr452
May719
Jun894
Jul1,001
Aug985
Sep818
Oct518
Nov185
Dec14

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.

Prattville receives about 4.6 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 6.4 months, from around Mar 15 to Sep 25. 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 186.3 kWhDec 222.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.8Moderate
Feb3.4Moderate
Mar4.6Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May6.3Intense
Jun6.1Intense
Jul6.0Intense
Aug5.6Bright
Sep4.9Bright
Oct4.0Bright
Nov3.1Moderate
Dec2.4Moderate

Where is Prattville?

Prattville sits at 32.5°N, 86.5°W, 328 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Millbrook, 5.6 mi away.

Topography around Prattville

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

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Prattville has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 315 ft around an average of 308 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 554 ft; within 50 miles, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,273 ft.

The land around Prattville is covered by trees (64%) within 2 miles, trees (65%) and grassland (22%) within 10 miles, and trees (81%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
315 ft
10 miles
554 ft
50 miles
1,273 ft
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Millbrook 5.6 mi · Montgomery 11 mi · Selma 33 mi · Troy 53 mi · Alabaster 58 mi · Auburn 58 mi · Pelham 60 mi · Helena 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 Prattville (32.464°, -86.4597°, elevation 328 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).