United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Salem.

September leads for comfortable weather in Salem: typically 28.1°C by day, 15°C at night, with 98 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high28.1°C

Typical low15°C

Rain in September98 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · October

75climate match

Beach

June

June · August · July

73climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · May

77climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 75 — days reach only 7.8°C, 16° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -4.1°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

57.8° / -4.1°

Feb

99.5° / -2.9°

Mar

3416.1° / 2.6°

Apr

5921.6° / 7.4°

May

7325.2° / 12.6°

Jun

6330.4° / 17.7°

Jul

5232.1° / 19.9°

Aug

5631.7° / 19.2°

Sep

7528.1° / 15°

Oct

6721.5° / 8°

Nov

3215.3° / 1.9°

Dec

89.3° / -2.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Salem — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	7.8°C	-4.1°C	87 mm	6.8	9 h 56	5	Good coverage
February	9.5°C	-2.9°C	92 mm	6.8	10 h 48	9	Good coverage
March	16.1°C	2.6°C	124 mm	9	11 h 51	34	Good coverage
April	21.6°C	7.4°C	139 mm	8.3	13 h 04	59	Good coverage
May	25.2°C	12.6°C	129 mm	9.3	14 h 05	73	Good coverage
June	30.4°C	17.7°C	90 mm	6.9	14 h 37	63	Good coverage
July	32.1°C	19.9°C	101 mm	6.8	14 h 25	52	Good coverage
August	31.7°C	19.2°C	88 mm	7	13 h 32	56	Good coverage
September	28.1°C	15°C	98 mm	5.7	12 h 22	75	Good coverage
October	21.5°C	8°C	95 mm	7	11 h 12	67	Good coverage
November	15.3°C	1.9°C	120 mm	7.3	10 h 11	32	Good coverage
December	9.3°C	-2.5°C	98 mm	6.9	9 h 41	8	Good coverage

Records at SALEM, 2002–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	23.9°C30 Jan 2008	-20.6°C17 Jan 2024	99 mm13 Jan 2013	168 mm2013 · driest 15 mm in 2003	24
February	31.1°C28 Feb 2024	-21.1°C16 Feb 2021	91 mm13 Feb 2007	198 mm2019 · driest 14 mm in 2026	24
March	34.4°C23 Mar 2026	-15.0°C6 Mar 2015	157 mm19 Mar 2008	387 mm2008 · driest 43 mm in 2003	24
April	33.9°C19 Apr 2006	-5.6°C8 Apr 2009	143 mm5 Apr 2025	354 mm2011 · driest 34 mm in 2012	25
May	36.1°C27 May 2012	0.0°C4 May 2013	97 mm3 May 2022	311 mm2011 · driest 9 mm in 2005	25
June	42.8°C29 Jun 2012	8.3°C1 Jun 2021	73 mm5 Jun 2025	225 mm2025 · driest 4 mm in 2022	25
July	41.7°C31 Jul 2012	11.1°C4 Jul 2013	105 mm19 Jul 2002	201 mm2024 · driest 6 mm in 2026	25
August	43.9°C4 Aug 2011	9.4°C15 Aug 2004	90 mm10 Aug 2023	223 mm2016 · driest 11 mm in 2025	24
September	36.7°C1 Sep 2013	2.8°C29 Sep 2003	130 mm23 Sep 2006	255 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 2004	24
October	35.0°C3 Oct 2019	-5.6°C30 Oct 2017	83 mm10 Oct 2003	356 mm2009 · driest 10 mm in 2010	24
November	28.9°C1 Nov 2016	-12.2°C13 Nov 2019	109 mm18 Nov 2003	284 mm2015 · driest 16 mm in 2017	24
December	25.0°C29 Dec 2025	-20.6°C23 Dec 2022	90 mm28 Dec 2015	235 mm2015 · driest 5 mm in 2025	24

Typical days per month at SALEM, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	23	3	<1
February	<1	<1	20	3	<1
March	3	<1	12	4	<1
April	9	1	2	4	<1
May	18	5	<1	5	0
June	28	18	0	3	0
July	30	24	0	3	0
August	30	21	0	3	0
September	23	11	0	3	0
October	10	2	2	3	0
November	2	0	12	3	<1
December	0	0	22	3	<1

How often, not how much — every day in SALEM’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	2%	20%	8%	18%	4.9–10.2°C
February	10%	22%	9%	21%	5.7–13.2°C
March	26%	26%	13%	29%	13.5–20.7°C
April	47%	27%	13%	30%	19.6–23.9°C
May	60%	29%	14%	32%	23.4–27.3°C
June	78%	22%	10%	21%	28.7–32.4°C
July	76%	21%	10%	19%	30.1–33.9°C
August	75%	20%	8%	18%	29.5–34.1°C
September	80%	20%	10%	17%	26.1–30.3°C
October	51%	19%	9%	19%	20.0–23.8°C
November	22%	23%	11%	21%	12.3–17.5°C
December	5%	21%	10%	20%	7.6–12.2°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.

2003Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 22-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 2014.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4129962
NOAA station: USC00036403 · SALEM
Station distance: 2.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 18 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 36.37°, 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 SALEM is what differs

Horseshoe Bend→Oxford→Viola→Agnos→Argosy (historical)→Bexar→

Or put two places side by side: Salem vs Horseshoe Bend

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