Our Climate

Haralson County is called one of the most pleasant places to live in Georgia because of its high rank on the annual BestPlaces Comfort Index. On average, there are 217 sunny days per year in Haralson County.  The average temperature is 60.67 degrees with the hottest summer days being around 89 degrees and the coldest winter days around 29 degrees.

July is the hottest month for Haralson County with an average high temperature of 88.7 degrees, which ranks it as cooler than most places in Georgia. In Haralson County, there are four comfortable months with high temperatures in the range of 70-85 degrees. The most pleasant months of the year for Haralson County are May, September and October. January has the coldest nighttime temperatures for Haralson County with an average of 29.4 degrees. There are 70.6 days annually when the nighttime low temperature falls below freezing, which is one of the coldest places in Georgia.

The county gets 52 inches of rain, on average, per year and about an inch of snow. In a normal year, Haralson County gets some kind of precipitation 107 days per year. Precipitation is rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground. The county averages 52 inches of rain a year. February is the wettest month in Haralson County with 5.3 inches of rain, and the driest month is October with 3.4 inches. The wettest season is Spring with 28 percent of yearly precipitation and 22 percent  occurs in Winter, which is the driest season. The annual rainfall of 52.3 inches in Haralson County means that it is wetter than most places in Georgia.

Relative humidity is a moderate 74.66 percent, lowest in January and highest in September.