United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Thornton.

October leads for comfortable weather in Thornton: typically 24°C by day, 9.7°C at night, with 127 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high24°C

Typical low9.7°C

Rain in October127 mm

Comfort

October

October · May · September

75climate match

Beach

August

August · September · June

73climate match

Outdoors

October

October · November · April

68climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 13 against October’s 75 — days reach only 11.4°C, 13° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -0.9°C.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

1311.4° / -0.9°

Feb

2413.9° / 0.7°

Mar

4218.5° / 4.7°

Apr

6623.1° / 9.1°

May

7027° / 14.7°

Jun

5630.9° / 19.2°

Jul

4732.8° / 21.1°

Aug

5032.8° / 20.4°

Sep

6929.7° / 16.4°

Oct

7524° / 9.7°

Nov

4417.5° / 4.2°

Dec

1512.6° / 0.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Thornton — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	11.4°C	-0.9°C	115 mm	8.6	10 h 08	13	Strong coverage
February	13.9°C	0.7°C	124 mm	8.4	10 h 55	24	Strong coverage
March	18.5°C	4.7°C	149 mm	9.1	11 h 52	42	Strong coverage
April	23.1°C	9.1°C	151 mm	8.3	12 h 59	66	Strong coverage
May	27°C	14.7°C	139 mm	8.4	13 h 54	70	Strong coverage
June	30.9°C	19.2°C	107 mm	6.8	14 h 23	56	Strong coverage
July	32.8°C	21.1°C	103 mm	6.5	14 h 11	47	Strong coverage
August	32.8°C	20.4°C	96 mm	6	13 h 24	50	Strong coverage
September	29.7°C	16.4°C	92 mm	5.5	12 h 20	69	Strong coverage
October	24°C	9.7°C	127 mm	6.2	11 h 17	75	Strong coverage
November	17.5°C	4.2°C	112 mm	7.4	10 h 22	44	Strong coverage
December	12.6°C	0.4°C	153 mm	8.2	9 h 55	15	Strong coverage

What has changed

Thornton runs -0.5°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

-0.5

Feb

-0.8

Mar

-0.6

Apr

-1.7

May

-1.0

Jun

-0.2

Jul

-0.8

Aug

-1.1

Sep

+0.4

Oct

-0.1

Nov

-0.7

Dec

+0.8

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.1°C.

Records at FORDYCE, 1911–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.3°C25 Jan 1950	-20.6°C14 Jan 1982	140 mm22 Jan 1938	404 mm1937 · driest 6 mm in 1986	90
February	29.4°C26 Feb 1917	-18.3°C2 Feb 1951	91 mm22 Feb 2018	391 mm2018 · driest 10 mm in 1972	91
March	33.3°C30 Mar 1946	-12.2°C3 Mar 1943	128 mm12 Mar 1950	323 mm1912 · driest 8 mm in 1979	90
April	36.7°C18 Apr 1987	-3.3°C3 Apr 1975	130 mm5 Apr 1997	401 mm1991 · driest 12 mm in 1978	93
May	36.7°C30 May 1951	1.7°C5 May 2013	97 mm17 May 1968	402 mm2009 · driest 18 mm in 2018	91
June	41.1°C28 Jun 1914	6.7°C1 Jun 1984	134 mm8 Jun 1974	417 mm2003 · driest 2 mm in 1954	89
July	41.7°C16 Jul 1954	10.6°C31 Jul 1984	184 mm24 Jul 1971	358 mm1989 · driest 9 mm in 2015	90
August	42.2°C4 Aug 2011	7.2°C24 Aug 1916	208 mm21 Aug 1960	312 mm1974 · driest 8 mm in 1943	89
September	43.3°C1 Sep 1947	-4.4°C30 Sep 1916	196 mm23 Sep 1914	395 mm1913 · driest 5 mm in 1946	89
October	36.1°C1 Oct 1953	-3.3°C31 Oct 1993	132 mm14 Oct 2009	465 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 2005	89
November	31.1°C10 Nov 1984	-10.0°C29 Nov 1976	143 mm9 Nov 1952	338 mm1987 · driest 13 mm in 1949	90
December	26.7°C3 Dec 1982	-18.9°C24 Dec 1989	138 mm24 Dec 2009	368 mm1982 · driest 10 mm in 1937	92

Typical days per month at FORDYCE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	20	4
February	<1	0	15	4
March	5	<1	7	4
April	13	1	<1	4
May	23	8	0	4
June	29	21	0	3
July	30	27	0	3
August	30	26	0	3
September	26	16	0	2
October	15	4	1	3
November	3	0	8	4
December	<1	0	18	5

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was April (scoring 80); on 2011–2025 it is October (81). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in FORDYCE’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	11%	26%	12%	28%	9.3–15.2°C
February	19%	27%	14%	30%	11.2–17.8°C
March	39%	27%	14%	29%	15.9–22.1°C
April	63%	27%	14%	28%	21.7–25.8°C
May	73%	25%	13%	27%	25.6–29.7°C
June	79%	21%	11%	20%	29.4–34.3°C
July	78%	22%	10%	21%	31.5–35.5°C
August	81%	19%	9%	17%	30.9–36.1°C
September	81%	19%	9%	14%	27.9–32.6°C
October	70%	18%	10%	18%	22.5–27.6°C
November	32%	23%	12%	24%	15.2–20.5°C
December	11%	26%	14%	30%	10.7–16.2°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1914Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 67-year average. Warmest: 1938. Coolest: 1983.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4047692
NOAA station: USC00032540 · FORDYCE
Station distance: 9.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 33.78°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from FORDYCE is what differs

Fordyce→Bearden→Kingsland→New Edinburg→Tinsman→Beech Grove→

Or put two places side by side: Thornton vs Fordyce

Best time to visitThornton.

October

August

October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Thornton runs -0.5°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Thornton.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Thornton runs -0.5°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.