United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Fort Payne.

October leads for comfortable weather in Fort Payne: typically 24.2°C by day, 11.3°C at night, with 98 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high24.2°C

Typical low11.3°C

Rain in October98 mm

Comfort

October

October · May · April

80climate match

Beach

August

August · September · June

73climate match

Outdoors

October

October · November · April

70climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 11 against October’s 80 — days reach only 11.3°C, 13° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -0.4°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

1111.3° / -0.4°

Feb

2113.3° / 1.7°

Mar

4718.6° / 6.1°

Apr

6923.1° / 10.1°

May

7127.1° / 14.9°

Jun

5431° / 19.3°

Jul

4332.2° / 21.1°

Aug

4832.4° / 20.9°

Sep

6330° / 17.9°

Oct

8024.2° / 11.3°

Nov

4918.1° / 5.1°

Dec

1613.1° / 1.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Fort Payne — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	11.3°C	-0.4°C	137 mm	9.1	10 h 05	11	Good coverage
February	13.3°C	1.7°C	136 mm	9.5	10 h 53	21	Good coverage
March	18.6°C	6.1°C	128 mm	9.8	11 h 52	47	Good coverage
April	23.1°C	10.1°C	134 mm	9	13 h	69	Good coverage
May	27.1°C	14.9°C	134 mm	8.9	13 h 56	71	Good coverage
June	31°C	19.3°C	101 mm	9.4	14 h 27	54	Good coverage
July	32.2°C	21.1°C	126 mm	10.5	14 h 15	43	Good coverage
August	32.4°C	20.9°C	100 mm	7.9	13 h 26	48	Good coverage
September	30°C	17.9°C	107 mm	5.5	12 h 21	63	Good coverage
October	24.2°C	11.3°C	98 mm	6.6	11 h 15	80	Good coverage
November	18.1°C	5.1°C	109 mm	6.9	10 h 19	49	Good coverage
December	13.1°C	1.7°C	163 mm	10.3	9 h 52	16	Good coverage

Records at FT PAYNE, 2001–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	24.4°C14 Jan 2017	-17.2°C17 Jan 2018	88 mm23 Jan 2017	277 mm2013 · driest 37 mm in 2018	25
February	27.2°C23 Feb 2018	-13.3°C19 Feb 2015	122 mm6 Feb 2020	333 mm2020 · driest 38 mm in 2011	25
March	30.6°C26 Mar 2007	-7.8°C16 Mar 2017	107 mm26 Mar 2021	342 mm2021 · driest 42 mm in 2007	25
April	34.4°C20 Apr 2025	-2.8°C7 Apr 2007	193 mm13 Apr 2020	301 mm2020 · driest 13 mm in 2012	25
May	34.4°C27 May 2012	3.3°C4 May 2004	130 mm7 May 2003	390 mm2003 · driest 18 mm in 2007	26
June	38.9°C30 Jun 2012	11.1°C6 Jun 2006	216 mm20 Jun 2021	364 mm2021 · driest 6 mm in 2026	26
July	40.0°C1 Jul 2012	12.8°C30 Jul 2014	114 mm2 Jul 2007	214 mm2007 · driest 39 mm in 2019	26
August	39.4°C17 Aug 2007	10.6°C14 Aug 2004	107 mm26 Aug 2008	219 mm2021 · driest 19 mm in 2012	25
September	37.8°C21 Sep 2010	4.4°C27 Sep 2001	178 mm6 Sep 2011	302 mm2011 · driest 2 mm in 2010	24
October	38.9°C4 Oct 2019	-2.2°C30 Oct 2008	76 mm14 Oct 2014	194 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 2024	25
November	31.7°C1 Nov 2016	-9.4°C13 Nov 2019	117 mm28 Nov 2011	177 mm2011 · driest 32 mm in 2017	25
December	25.0°C12 Dec 2007	-14.4°C23 Dec 2022	79 mm9 Dec 2009	260 mm2013 · driest 29 mm in 2025	25

Typical days per month at FT PAYNE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	16	4
February	<1	0	11	4
March	4	<1	5	4
April	11	<1	<1	4
May	21	8	0	4
June	25	18	0	3
July	28	23	0	3
August	25	22	0	3
September	24	15	0	3
October	13	3	<1	3
November	2	<1	5	3
December	<1	0	12	5

How often, not how much — every day in FT PAYNE’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	5%	30%	16%	34%	8.3–14.8°C
February	13%	31%	15%	35%	10.7–17.4°C
March	36%	31%	16%	35%	16.4–22.2°C
April	58%	27%	14%	29%	21.3–25.9°C
May	67%	28%	12%	33%	25.5–29.2°C
June	68%	27%	12%	33%	29.3–32.6°C
July	65%	30%	13%	34%	30.4–33.8°C
August	70%	25%	11%	26%	30.9–34.1°C
September	80%	20%	10%	18%	27.7–32.3°C
October	69%	17%	8%	15%	22.7–26.1°C
November	36%	23%	11%	26%	15.6–21.3°C
December	9%	28%	14%	33%	10.9–15.6°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.

2002Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 21-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 2014.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4062861
NOAA station: USC00013043 · FT PAYNE
Station distance: 0.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 18 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.44°, 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 FT PAYNE is what differs

Rainsville→Sylvania→Fyffe→Powell→Pine Ridge→Shiloh→

Or put two places side by side: Fort Payne vs Rainsville

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Best time to visit
Fort Payne.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.