United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Gulf Highlands.

April leads for comfortable weather in Gulf Highlands: typically 23.4°C by day, 17.5°C at night, with 133 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high23.4°C

Typical low17.5°C

Rain in April133 mm

Comfort

April

April · October · November

77climate match

Beach

May

May · October · September

74climate match

Outdoors

November

November · March · February

81climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 26 against April’s 77 — days average 31.5°C, 8° above the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and 202 mm of rain falls.

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

4015.2° / 8°

Feb

5216.8° / 9.8°

Mar

6819.9° / 13.4°

Apr

7723.4° / 17.5°

May

6127.4° / 22°

Jun

4230.4° / 24.8°

Jul

2631.5° / 25.8°

Aug

3331.5° / 25.9°

Sep

4829.9° / 24.3°

Oct

7725.5° / 19.3°

Nov

7420.3° / 13.2°

Dec

5116.7° / 9.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Gulf Highlands — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 12 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	15.2°C	8°C	134 mm	8.2	16.9°C	10 h 23	40	Strong coverage
February	16.8°C	9.8°C	114 mm	6.9	16.7°C	11 h 04	52	Strong coverage
March	19.9°C	13.4°C	128 mm	6.1	18.3°C	11 h 54	68	Strong coverage
April	23.4°C	17.5°C	133 mm	5.8	21.1°C	12 h 52	77	Strong coverage
May	27.4°C	22°C	123 mm	5.8	25.0°C	13 h 39	61	Strong coverage
June	30.4°C	24.8°C	134 mm	8.5	28.2°C	14 h 05	42	Strong coverage
July	31.5°C	25.8°C	202 mm	9.8	29.3°C	13 h 55	26	Strong coverage
August	31.5°C	25.9°C	152 mm	10.5	29.5°C	13 h 14	33	Strong coverage
September	29.9°C	24.3°C	127 mm	6.7	28.5°C	12 h 19	48	Strong coverage
October	25.5°C	19.3°C	95 mm	4.9	25.5°C	11 h 23	77	Strong coverage
November	20.3°C	13.2°C	94 mm	5.3	21.8°C	10 h 35	74	Strong coverage
December	16.7°C	9.8°C	115 mm	7.6	18.9°C	10 h 12	51	Strong coverage

Records at DAUPHIN IS #2, 1975–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	27.2°C19 Jan 2017	-12.8°C21 Jan 1985	231 mm25 Jan 1978	439 mm1991 · driest 12 mm in 2003	51
February	26.7°C28 Feb 2023	-7.2°C4 Feb 1996	139 mm11 Feb 1981	306 mm1983 · driest 9 mm in 2024	51
March	31.1°C10 Mar 2026	-5.0°C2 Mar 1980	208 mm3 Mar 1979	295 mm1980 · driest 4 mm in 2020	49
April	31.1°C27 Apr 2025	1.7°C8 Apr 2009	245 mm1 Apr 2005	526 mm2005 · driest 2 mm in 1985	50
May	35.0°C30 May 1995	10.0°C4 May 2013	193 mm10 May 1995	403 mm1991 · driest 2 mm in 2024	51
June	37.2°C25 Jun 2022	12.8°C13 Jun 1979	137 mm21 Jun 2017	326 mm2003 · driest 1 mm in 1977	51
July	38.3°C29 Jul 1993	18.3°C26 Jul 2009	609 mm20 Jul 1997	991 mm1997 · driest 29 mm in 1983	49
August	37.8°C8 Aug 2024	17.2°C26 Aug 2025	301 mm9 Aug 1988	609 mm1988 · driest 9 mm in 2023	51
September	36.1°C9 Sep 2019	13.9°C25 Sep 1975	215 mm13 Sep 1979	427 mm1988 · driest 4 mm in 2005	49
October	33.9°C4 Oct 2019	2.8°C31 Oct 1993	185 mm2 Oct 1994	315 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1978	50
November	32.2°C20 Nov 2024	-4.4°C30 Nov 1979	97 mm7 Nov 1975	292 mm1992 · driest 3 mm in 2017	49
December	29.4°C27 Dec 2016	-11.7°C25 Dec 1983	115 mm28 Dec 1997	348 mm2009 · driest 24 mm in 1980	47

Typical days per month at DAUPHIN IS #2, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	2	4
February	<1	0	<1	3
March	2	0	<1	3
April	10	<1	0	3
May	26	5	0	3
June	29	20	0	4
July	29	26	0	4
August	29	25	0	4
September	28	17	0	3
October	20	2	0	2
November	4	0	0	3
December	<1	0	<1	3

How often, not how much — every day in DAUPHIN IS #2’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	9%	26%	12%	27%	12.1–16.9°C
February	16%	25%	12%	24%	14.2–18.7°C
March	45%	21%	12%	18%	17.9–22.1°C
April	75%	19%	10%	14%	21.9–25.0°C
May	81%	19%	10%	18%	26.0–28.9°C
June	72%	28%	13%	34%	29.5–31.9°C
July	68%	32%	15%	39%	30.3–32.9°C
August	67%	34%	14%	43%	30.6–32.6°C
September	77%	23%	11%	24%	28.9–31.2°C
October	79%	16%	8%	15%	24.0–27.3°C
November	45%	20%	10%	17%	18.7–22.8°C
December	16%	24%	10%	23%	14.3–19.0°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.

1976Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 39-year average. Warmest: 2025. Coolest: 1979.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4065548
NOAA station: USC00012172 · DAUPHIN IS #2
Station distance: 19.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 30.23°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 12 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
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 DAUPHIN IS #2 is what differs

Dauphin Island→Cedar Grove→Fort Gaines→Fort Morgan→Gasque→Palmetto Beach→

Or put two places side by side: Gulf Highlands vs Dauphin Island

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Gulf Highlands.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.