Kentucky Weather

Right now in Kentucky
72°F
Mostly Clear

Observed at Louisville (the largest city by population in Kentucky, used as a state-wide proxy). For per-city forecasts, see the city grid below.

Climate at a glance

Kentucky is largely one climate zone across 552 cities and towns. Predominantly humid subtropical.

The state spans roughly 2.6° of latitude (36.5° N to 39.1° N), from Hazel in the south to Dayton in the north. Louisville is the largest city by population.

Microseason · September 21–25 · Southeast Subtropical

Thunder quiets the land

Read this microseason across nine climate regions → · See all 72 microseasons

Microseason content for Kentucky is drawn from the Southeast Subtropical corpus (100% of the state's cities sit in this region).

Live wind & temperature across Kentucky

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Cities in Kentucky

3 cities with a weather forecast page, largest first

CityJuly normalPopulation
Louisville79°F988,018
Lexington77°F323,725
Burlington76°F18,008

Our dataset lists 552 places in Kentucky; the 3 above have a page. For a smaller town, the nearest city above is the closest match.

The July figure is that city’s 1991–2020 normal mean temperature, rounded to the nearest degree — NOAA NCEI station normals from the nearest station where one covers the city, otherwise modelled normals (EC_Earth3P_HR via Open-Meteo); each city page names which. Populations come from SimpleMaps US Cities (CC BY 4.0). See methodology for data sources and editorial rules. Maintainer: Brian Tighe.