United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Patoka.

September leads for comfortable weather in Patoka: typically 26.7°C by day, 14.2°C at night, with 90 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high26.7°C

Typical low14.2°C

Rain in September90 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · October

79climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

75climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · September

81climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 79 — days reach only 3.4°C, 21° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

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

53.4° / -5.6°

Feb

56.2° / -3.8°

Mar

2312.1° / 1.1°

Apr

5118.9° / 6.9°

May

7724.2° / 12.9°

Jun

6029° / 18°

Jul

5530.8° / 19.9°

Aug

6130.2° / 18.8°

Sep

7926.7° / 14.2°

Oct

6320.2° / 7.7°

Nov

2412.2° / 1.7°

Dec

55.8° / -3.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Patoka — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	3.4°C	-5.6°C	78 mm	7.2	9 h 44	5	Strong coverage
February	6.2°C	-3.8°C	65 mm	6.6	10 h 41	5	Strong coverage
March	12.1°C	1.1°C	95 mm	8.2	11 h 50	23	Strong coverage
April	18.9°C	6.9°C	119 mm	9.2	13 h 09	51	Strong coverage
May	24.2°C	12.9°C	126 mm	9.9	14 h 16	77	Strong coverage
June	29°C	18°C	129 mm	8.7	14 h 52	60	Strong coverage
July	30.8°C	19.9°C	103 mm	7.4	14 h 38	55	Strong coverage
August	30.2°C	18.8°C	98 mm	6.9	13 h 40	61	Strong coverage
September	26.7°C	14.2°C	90 mm	6	12 h 23	79	Strong coverage
October	20.2°C	7.7°C	88 mm	7.2	11 h 07	63	Strong coverage
November	12.2°C	1.7°C	101 mm	7.7	10 h 00	24	Strong coverage
December	5.8°C	-3.1°C	74 mm	7.5	9 h 28	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Patoka runs -0.3°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

0.0

Feb

0.0

Mar

-0.1

Apr

-1.1

May

-0.8

Jun

-0.5

Jul

-0.8

Aug

-1.1

Sep

0.0

Oct

-0.2

Nov

-0.7

Dec

+1.4

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

Records at SALEM, 1932–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	21.7°C24 Jan 1943	-30.6°C19 Jan 1994	68 mm13 Jan 2013	211 mm2005 · driest 3 mm in 1986	70
February	25.6°C29 Feb 1972	-30.6°C10 Feb 1982	73 mm11 Feb 2009	148 mm2022 · driest 9 mm in 1996	70
March	32.2°C23 Mar 2026	-22.2°C5 Mar 1978	97 mm19 Mar 2008	258 mm2008 · driest 21 mm in 2001	70
April	32.8°C29 Apr 1987	-6.7°C7 Apr 1990	150 mm5 Apr 2025	379 mm2025 · driest 26 mm in 1976	71
May	37.8°C29 May 1944	-0.6°C1 May 1960	125 mm19 May 2026	383 mm1995 · driest 25 mm in 2005	71
June	40.0°C29 Jun 2012	3.3°C3 Jun 1969	101 mm30 Jun 1965	271 mm1970 · driest 7 mm in 1959	71
July	40.6°C8 Jul 2012	8.9°C4 Jul 1967	111 mm10 Jul 1967	339 mm2024 · driest 6 mm in 1943	71
August	40.6°C20 Aug 1983	6.7°C13 Aug 1964	125 mm4 Aug 1998	293 mm2019 · driest 9 mm in 2025	70
September	37.8°C6 Sep 1960	0.6°C23 Sep 1974	162 mm9 Sep 2018	285 mm2018 · driest 8 mm in 1995	70
October	34.4°C2 Oct 2019	-6.1°C24 Oct 1981	101 mm19 Oct 2025	263 mm1983 · driest 4 mm in 1944	71
November	27.8°C2 Nov 1987	-16.7°C17 Nov 1959	123 mm14 Nov 1993	302 mm1985 · driest 7 mm in 1976	71
December	23.3°C2 Dec 1982	-28.9°C22 Dec 1989	109 mm21 Dec 1967	269 mm1967 · driest 17 mm in 1958	72

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	26	3	2
February	0	0	22	2	2
March	1	0	15	3	<1
April	6	<1	3	4	0
May	16	4	0	4	0
June	26	14	0	4	0
July	29	20	0	4	0
August	29	17	0	3	0
September	21	8	0	3	0
October	8	1	2	3	0
November	<1	0	13	3	<1
December	0	0	23	3	2

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	<1%	22%	7%	22%	0.5–6.9°C
February	2%	23%	7%	24%	1.7–9.8°C
March	14%	28%	11%	32%	9.3–15.9°C
April	35%	31%	12%	38%	17.0–21.7°C
May	58%	31%	13%	38%	22.1–27.6°C
June	72%	28%	12%	31%	27.7–31.4°C
July	76%	23%	10%	20%	29.6–33.3°C
August	79%	22%	9%	20%	28.8–32.1°C
September	75%	21%	9%	18%	24.9–29.3°C
October	47%	22%	9%	23%	18.1–22.5°C
November	11%	24%	9%	23%	9.3–15.4°C
December	<1%	24%	9%	25%	2.9–9.1°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.

1959Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 67-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 2014.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4246717
NOAA station: USC00117636 · SALEM
Station distance: 18.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 38.76°, 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

Salem→Sandoval→Odin→Kinmundy→Iuka→Alma→

Or put two places side by side: Patoka vs Salem

Best time to visitPatoka.

September

July

October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Patoka runs -0.3°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Patoka.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Patoka runs -0.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.