Lafayette, LA Weather & Climate Normals
Lafayette's real weather, in one number
Lafayette, LA scores 52/100 on this site's reading of NOAA's own 30-year normals: strongly seasonal. Comfortable weather is limited to a shorter window; summers, winters, or precipitation swing wide. 5 of the year's 12 months average between 55 and 75°F, the range this site counts as mild.
Lafayette's hottest and coldest months
Lafayette's hottest month is Aug, averaging 82°F; its coldest is Jan, averaging 51°F, a 30.9°F swing across the year, a middling gap by national standards.
Rain and snow in Lafayette
Lafayette averages 64.74in of precipitation a year across roughly 111 days with measurable rain or snow, and 0in of snow a year.
Where Lafayette ranks
Lafayette ranks 1184 of 4876 US cities in this dataset for comfort score, and 24 of 59 within LA. About 122,280 people live there.
If you need tomorrow's forecast, not the 30-year average
Everything above is a 30-year average from LAFAYETTE, LA US, 2.4 miles from Lafayette, not a prediction for any specific day.
More on how this is worked out
What a 30-year climate normal actually is · Why this uses the nearest NOAA station