United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Memphis.

February leads for comfortable weather in Memphis: typically 23.9°C by day, 12.2°C at night, with 50 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortFebruary

Typical high23.9°C

Typical low12.2°C

Rain in February50 mm

Comfort

February

February · November · December

92climate match

Beach

October

October · April · May

85climate match

Outdoors

January

January · December · February

82climate match

The weakest month is August, scoring 12 against February’s 92 — days average 33.3°C, 9° above the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and 252 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

8022.3° / 10.8°

Feb

9223.9° / 12.2°

Mar

8525.6° / 14°

Apr

7728.3° / 16.8°

May

5731.2° / 19.9°

Jun

2232.9° / 22.8°

Jul

1633.4° / 23.7°

Aug

1233.3° / 23.8°

Sep

3032.2° / 23.1°

Oct

6529.6° / 19.7°

Nov

9126° / 15.2°

Dec

9023.5° / 12.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Memphis — 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	22.3°C	10.8°C	73 mm	5.2	18.2°C	10 h 34	80	Strong coverage
February	23.9°C	12.2°C	50 mm	4	18.1°C	11 h 11	92	Strong coverage
March	25.6°C	14°C	79 mm	4.5	20.1°C	11 h 55	85	Strong coverage
April	28.3°C	16.8°C	65 mm	4.1	23.0°C	12 h 47	77	Strong coverage
May	31.2°C	19.9°C	89 mm	5.7	25.9°C	13 h 29	57	Strong coverage
June	32.9°C	22.8°C	229 mm	11.8	28.4°C	13 h 52	22	Strong coverage
July	33.4°C	23.7°C	227 mm	14.4	29.8°C	13 h 43	16	Strong coverage
August	33.3°C	23.8°C	252 mm	14.9	30.1°C	13 h 07	12	Strong coverage
September	32.2°C	23.1°C	183 mm	11.3	29.2°C	12 h 17	30	Strong coverage
October	29.6°C	19.7°C	73 mm	5.8	26.8°C	11 h 28	65	Strong coverage
November	26°C	15.2°C	47 mm	3.6	23.0°C	10 h 45	91	Strong coverage
December	23.5°C	12.5°C	54 mm	3.9	20.3°C	10 h 25	90	Strong coverage

What has changed

Memphis runs +0.8°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

-0.3

Feb

+1.9

Mar

+1.3

Apr

+1.3

May

+1.2

Jun

+1.0

Jul

+1.1

Aug

+0.7

Sep

+0.4

Oct

+0.2

Nov

-0.1

Dec

+0.9

February daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 26.1°C.

Records at BRADENTON 5 ESE, 1965–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	32.8°C26 Jan 1990	-5.0°C13 Jan 1981	155 mm24 Jan 1998	261 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1974	58
February	31.1°C28 Feb 1997	-4.4°C5 Feb 1996	133 mm27 Feb 2005	258 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 2001	59
March	32.8°C27 Mar 2020	-1.1°C3 Mar 1980	215 mm30 Mar 2001	282 mm1987 · driest 4 mm in 2023	59
April	34.4°C25 Apr 1999	3.3°C8 Apr 1971	93 mm24 Apr 2020	223 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 1967	59
May	37.8°C30 May 2024	7.8°C5 May 1971	171 mm4 May 2016	277 mm2014 · driest 3 mm in 2024	61
June	37.8°C30 Jun 1998	11.1°C1 Jun 1984	195 mm26 Jun 1992	568 mm1992 · driest 16 mm in 1998	61
July	37.8°C25 Jul 1998	16.7°C15 Jul 1984	152 mm22 Jul 2001	414 mm1984 · driest 61 mm in 1970	61
August	38.3°C9 Aug 2023	15.6°C22 Aug 1973	296 mm26 Aug 2017	620 mm1981 · driest 59 mm in 2014	60
September	36.1°C5 Sep 1970	14.4°C26 Sep 2019	180 mm28 Sep 2022	447 mm2022 · driest 36 mm in 2008	60
October	35.0°C9 Oct 2024	6.7°C18 Oct 1977	147 mm11 Oct 1990	216 mm1975 · driest 0 mm in 2010	60
November	32.8°C3 Nov 2015	-1.7°C25 Nov 1970	147 mm11 Nov 2020	239 mm1997 · driest 1 mm in 2016	59
December	31.7°C31 Dec 1973	-6.7°C26 Dec 1983	109 mm20 Dec 2018	303 mm1997 · driest 1 mm in 2011	59

Typical days per month at BRADENTON 5 ESE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	11	0	<1	2
February	14	<1	<1	1
March	21	3	0	2
April	27	11	0	2
May	31	25	0	3
June	30	28	0	6
July	31	30	0	8
August	31	30	0	7
September	30	27	0	5
October	29	17	0	2
November	21	4	0	1
December	15	<1	<1	2

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was November (scoring 89); on 2011–2025 it is December (95). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in BRADENTON 5 ESE’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	59%	17%	6%	11%	20.1–25.3°C
February	68%	15%	6%	9%	20.9–26.4°C
March	78%	15%	7%	9%	23.6–28.0°C
April	88%	12%	5%	6%	26.8–29.8°C
May	82%	18%	8%	19%	29.8–32.2°C
June	62%	38%	20%	51%	31.5–33.9°C
July	54%	46%	24%	69%	32.0–34.4°C
August	52%	48%	24%	68%	32.3–34.1°C
September	62%	38%	18%	48%	31.2–33.1°C
October	81%	18%	6%	16%	28.3–30.7°C
November	81%	13%	4%	8%	24.3–27.7°C
December	69%	13%	5%	10%	21.4–25.8°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.

1966Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 56-year average. Warmest: 2023. Coolest: 1977.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4164047
NOAA station: USC00080945 · BRADENTON 5 ESE
Station distance: 13.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 27.54°, 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 BRADENTON 5 ESE is what differs

Bradenton→Palmetto→Fruitville→West Samoset→Ellenton→The Meadows→

Or put two places side by side: Memphis vs Bradenton

Best time to visitMemphis.