United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Sykes.

September leads for comfortable weather in Sykes: typically 28.6°C by day, 15.3°C at night, with 84 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high28.6°C

Typical low15.3°C

Rain in September84 mm

Comfort

September

September · October · May

75climate match

Beach

August

August · September · June

73climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · November

78climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 75 — days reach only 8.7°C, 15° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -2.5°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

58.7° / -2.5°

Feb

1111.1° / -1.1°

Mar

3416° / 2.6°

Apr

6221.5° / 7.2°

May

7325.7° / 12.6°

Jun

6029.5° / 17.4°

Jul

4931.4° / 19.8°

Aug

5731.3° / 19°

Sep

7528.6° / 15.3°

Oct

7422.5° / 8.4°

Nov

4016° / 2.5°

Dec

1110.6° / -0.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Sykes — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	8.7°C	-2.5°C	112 mm	8	9 h 57	5	Strong coverage
February	11.1°C	-1.1°C	124 mm	8.5	10 h 49	11	Strong coverage
March	16°C	2.6°C	121 mm	8.7	11 h 51	34	Strong coverage
April	21.5°C	7.2°C	112 mm	8.4	13 h 03	62	Strong coverage
May	25.7°C	12.6°C	121 mm	8.2	14 h 04	73	Strong coverage
June	29.5°C	17.4°C	126 mm	7.9	14 h 36	60	Strong coverage
July	31.4°C	19.8°C	128 mm	8.4	14 h 23	49	Strong coverage
August	31.3°C	19°C	100 mm	5.9	13 h 32	57	Strong coverage
September	28.6°C	15.3°C	84 mm	5.5	12 h 22	75	Strong coverage
October	22.5°C	8.4°C	80 mm	5.9	11 h 12	74	Strong coverage
November	16°C	2.5°C	94 mm	5.8	10 h 12	40	Strong coverage
December	10.6°C	-0.7°C	123 mm	8	9 h 43	11	Strong coverage

What has changed

Sykes runs +1.0°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

+1.1

Feb

+1.7

Mar

+1.4

Apr

+0.7

May

+0.7

Jun

+0.5

Jul

+0.5

Aug

+0.3

Sep

+0.8

Oct

+1.2

Nov

+0.8

Dec

+1.8

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 29.7°C.

Records at CARTHAGE, 1890–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	31.1°C2 Jan 1894	-27.2°C21 Jan 1985	103 mm3 Jan 1924	422 mm1937 · driest 9 mm in 1986	123
February	28.3°C24 Feb 2023	-26.1°C13 Feb 1899	155 mm16 Feb 2003	361 mm2019 · driest 6 mm in 1928	124
March	33.3°C24 Mar 1929	-16.1°C7 Mar 1899	155 mm28 Mar 2021	330 mm1963 · driest 9 mm in 2007	124
April	35.0°C24 Apr 1925	-6.1°C5 Apr 1899	84 mm2 Apr 1920	254 mm1912 · driest 5 mm in 1915	124
May	36.7°C25 May 1936	-1.1°C3 May 1927	116 mm2 May 2010	280 mm1995 · driest 16 mm in 1936	125
June	40.6°C23 Jun 1930	4.4°C1 Jun 1966	120 mm16 Jun 1949	375 mm1998 · driest 8 mm in 1988	126
July	43.3°C28 Jul 1930	9.4°C15 Jul 1926	142 mm5 Jul 2013	303 mm1916 · driest 14 mm in 1902	125
August	43.9°C8 Aug 1930	7.8°C31 Aug 1946	212 mm3 Aug 1893	320 mm1901 · driest 0 mm in 1925	124
September	42.2°C5 Sep 1925	0.0°C21 Sep 1927	89 mm7 Sep 1971	266 mm1906 · driest 3 mm in 2008	125
October	36.1°C2 Oct 2019	-5.0°C31 Oct 1993	99 mm5 Oct 1995	237 mm2014 · driest 0 mm in 1924	125
November	30.6°C2 Nov 2016	-17.8°C25 Nov 1950	114 mm11 Nov 1946	260 mm1945 · driest 2 mm in 2009	123
December	25.0°C3 Dec 1982	-22.8°C22 Dec 1989	103 mm8 Dec 1924	372 mm1926 · driest 15 mm in 2025	122

Typical days per month at CARTHAGE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	21	4	<1
February	<1	0	18	4	<1
March	2	<1	11	4	<1
April	10	<1	2	3	0
May	19	5	<1	4	0
June	27	15	0	4	0
July	30	23	0	4	0
August	30	22	0	3	0
September	25	12	0	3	0
October	11	2	1	3	0
November	1	<1	11	3	<1
December	<1	0	19	4	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 78); on 2011–2025 it is October (80). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in CARTHAGE’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	4%	31%	14%	38%	6.2–13.3°C
February	7%	33%	14%	40%	8.0–15.1°C
March	24%	32%	14%	38%	12.8–20.4°C
April	48%	30%	13%	37%	19.6–24.4°C
May	65%	30%	12%	35%	23.9–28.7°C
June	72%	28%	13%	31%	28.3–32.7°C
July	71%	29%	13%	33%	29.9–34.3°C
August	76%	24%	11%	25%	29.6–34.3°C
September	78%	21%	9%	19%	26.6–32.0°C
October	62%	19%	8%	17%	20.6–25.6°C
November	25%	25%	11%	26%	13.6–19.0°C
December	4%	29%	13%	35%	7.5–13.8°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.

1893Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 103-year average. Warmest: 1933. Coolest: 1966.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4050856
NOAA station: USC00401480 · CARTHAGE
Station distance: 13.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 36.12°, 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 CARTHAGE is what differs

Carthage→South Carthage→Gordonsville→Beech Hill (historical)→Bluff Creek→Carthage Junction→

Or put two places side by side: Sykes vs Carthage

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