Climate and average weather in Warrensburg

In Warrensburg, the summers are humid, hot, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: early September to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Warrensburg typically varies from 23°F to 88°F, and is rarely below 5°F or above 96°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 Warrensburg for warm-weather activities are from early May to late May and early September to late October.

Hottest
Jul
88°
Coldest
Jan
23°
Wettest
May
5.5 in
Driest
Jan
1.8 in
Rain / yr
41.0 in
107 wet days
Daylight
9.3–14.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
863 ft
38.8°N
Clearest
Sep
44% cloud

Warrensburg is city in and county seat of Johnson County, Missouri, United States.

Density
863/km²
people per km²
Founded
1855

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

Warrensburg 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 September to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 4.2 months, from May 20 to September 24, with daily high temperatures above 76°F. The hottest month of the year in Warrensburg is July, with an average high of 88°F and low of 70°F.

The cool season lasts 3.0 months, from November 29 to February 27, with daily high temperatures below 49°F. The coldest month of the year in Warrensburg is January, with an average low of 23°F and high of 40°F.

Days typically run about 18°F warmer than nights year-round.

20°40°60°80°100°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°F)Avg low (°F)
Jan4023
Feb4527
Mar5536
Apr6646
May7557
Jun8466
Jul8870
Aug8668
Sep7960
Oct6747
Nov5437
Dec4327

How hot and cold Warrensburg 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, Warrensburg feels like about 92°F (around July 16). About 30 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in July.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about 13°F (around January 12), with roughly 129 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 32°F) 18 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

20°40°60°80°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°F)Air high (°F)Feels-like low (°F)Air low (°F)
Jan40401423
Feb45451927
Mar55553036
Apr66664246
May75755757
Jun85846666
Jul91887070
Aug88866868
Sep79795960
Oct67674447
Nov54543037
Dec43431927

Average hourly temperature in Warrensburg

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 88°F, and coldest before dawn in January, near 23°F.

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

Warrensburg weather by month

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

MonthHigh / Low (°F)Rainfall (inches)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan40° / 23°1.86.53.59.60.0
Feb45° / 27°2.26.42.510.50.9
Mar55° / 36°3.2101.511.73.6
Apr66° / 46°4.911.80.2135.7
May75° / 57°5.512.80.114.16.3
Jun84° / 66°4.911.8014.75.5
Jul88° / 70°3.99.6014.44.7
Aug86° / 68°3.38.8013.55.2
Sep79° / 60°3.47.6012.37.1
Oct67° / 47°3.38.40.1116.6
Nov54° / 37°2.67.219.93.5
Dec43° / 27°2.06.32.19.30.6

Chance of rain

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

Warrensburg gets about 41.0 in of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.3 months, from around Mar 11 to Jul 18, peaking in April at about 44% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 30.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 5.5 in over about 13 wet days; January is the driest, with 1.8 in. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 29 · 44%Jan 30 · 19%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan207
Feb236
Mar3210
Apr3912
May4213
Jun3912
Jul3110
Aug289
Sep268
Oct268
Nov247
Dec216

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Warrensburg collects about 41.0 in of rain across 107 wet days — roughly 3.4 in in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 5.5 in, while January is the driest at just 1.8 in. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1.82.23.24.95.54.93.93.33.43.32.62.0
Rainfall (in)Rain daysSnow days
Jan1.874
Feb2.263
Mar3.2102
Apr4.9120
May5.5130
Jun4.9120
Jul3.9100
Aug3.390
Sep3.480
Oct3.380
Nov2.671
Dec2.062

Snow in Warrensburg

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Warrensburg averages about 11 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 31 to Apr 6 — about 5.2 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 3 days of snow and an estimated 6 in of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 21 in of snow.

0246JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 27
Snow daysSnowfall (in)
Jan46
Feb36
Mar23
Apr00
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov11
Dec24

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Warrensburg, 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 June 9 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around November 3. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 63% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 4 and lasts for 7.1 months, ending around June 8. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 57% 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 1 · 66%Apr 24 · 41%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4555
Feb4357
Mar4357
Apr4357
May4555
Jun5644
Jul6238
Aug6337
Sep6337
Oct5941
Nov5149
Dec4654

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 11, brings about 14 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 9 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 5 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.67:375:11
Feb10.57:155:44
Mar11.76:346:15
Apr13.05:456:45
May14.15:087:14
Jun14.74:547:36
Jul14.45:077:35
Aug13.55:337:05
Sep12.36:026:17
Oct11.06:315:29
Nov9.97:054:56
Dec9.37:324:50

Sunny days

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

Warrensburg 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 5.4 months, from around Jun 17 to Nov 26. The sunniest month is October, with roughly 15 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 10 sunny days — about 34% fewer than the October peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightOct 216 daysApr 308 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr9Mixed
May9Mixed
Jun11Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug14Mixed
Sep15Mixed
Oct15Mixed
Nov12Mixed
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 Warrensburg, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around May 14 to September 24. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 89% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 25 to May 13, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 20 · 100%Jul 14 · 8%oppressivemuggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan10000000
Feb10000000
Mar9641000
Apr85114000
May4819201300
Jun11152437130
Jul281931381
Aug6132137221
Sep3619182340
Oct79126300
Nov9631000
Dec9910000

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 Warrensburg is typically light breeze, near 8 mph, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.3 months, from around Oct 9 to May 19. The windiest month is April, averaging about 9 mph (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 20 to Oct 8, with August the calmest month at about 6 mph.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyApr 10 · 9 mphAug 4 · 6 mph
Wind speed (mph)Feels
Jan8light breeze
Feb8light breeze
Mar9light breeze
Apr9light breeze
May8light breeze
Jun7calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep7calm
Oct8light breeze
Nov8light breeze
Dec8light breeze

Best time to visit Warrensburg

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid October, Warrensburg is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

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 Warrensburg for general outdoor tourist activities run from early May to early June and again from early September to late October, with a peak score in the last week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 28 · 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
Jan0.0poor
Feb1.0poor
Mar3.6fair
Apr5.7good
May6.3good
Jun5.5fair
Jul4.7fair
Aug5.3fair
Sep7.0good
Oct6.5good
Nov3.5fair
Dec0.7poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 75°F and 93°F. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Warrensburg for hot-weather activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 30 · 7.4

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 Warrensburg, 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 88°F), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 40°F), pack a warm layer and a heavy coat.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Warrensburg sees daytime highs around 88°F and nights near 70°F. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 10 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Warrensburg 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 Warrensburg peaks around June 22 at about 10 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 2 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 10 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateHighVery highHighModerateJun 22UV 10Jan 1UV 2
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb3Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr7High
May7High
Jun10Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep7High
Oct5Moderate
Nov3Moderate
Dec2Low

Average hourly UV index in Warrensburg

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 June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 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)
Jan00
Feb2.50
Mar50
Apr73
May7.53.5
Jun8.56
Jul8.55.5
Aug7.54.5
Sep6.52.5
Oct4.50
Nov20
Dec00

Air quality in Warrensburg 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 Warrensburg is worst in July — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.4× the cleanest month (October, 7 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1716 µg/m³Oct 237 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb11Good
Mar12Good
Apr10Good
May12Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul16Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep11Good
Oct7Good
Nov7Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Warrensburg typically lasts about 268 days, from around March 6 to November 28 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 13 to October 23.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 650%Apr 1390%Oct 2390%Nov 2850%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan2131
Feb3228
Mar6531
Apr9111
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct946
Nov6630
Dec3331

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. Warrensburg banks about 3,953 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°F·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar2
Apr177
May486
Jun750
Jul898
Aug840
Sep576
Oct223
Nov1
Dec0

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.

Warrensburg receives about 4.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 2.0 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 23 to Sep 28. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 2.0 kWh/m² — roughly 69% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 306.6 kWhDec 182.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan2.3Moderate
Feb3.2Moderate
Mar4.2Bright
Apr5.1Bright
May5.8Bright
Jun6.5Intense
Jul6.5Intense
Aug5.9Bright
Sep4.8Bright
Oct3.5Moderate
Nov2.4Moderate
Dec2.0Moderate

Where is Warrensburg?

Warrensburg sits at 38.8°N, 93.7°W, 863 ft above sea level, in United States. The nearest listed city is Sedalia, 28 mi away.

Topography around Warrensburg

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

Within 2 miles, the terrain around Warrensburg has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 203 ft around an average of 804 ft above sea level; within 10 miles, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 308 ft; within 50 miles, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 623 ft.

The land around Warrensburg is covered by trees (46%), grassland (29%) and artificial surfaces (20%) within 2 miles, grassland (41%), trees (35%) and cropland (22%) within 10 miles, and cropland (38%), trees (33%) and grassland (27%) within 50 miles.

2 miles
203 ft
10 miles
308 ft
50 miles
623 ft
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Sedalia 28 mi · Blue Springs 34 mi · Lee's Summit 36 mi · Raymore 39 mi · East Independence 40 mi · Raytown 43 mi · Independence 43 mi · Belton 43 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 Warrensburg (38.7628°, -93.7361°, elevation 863 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).