United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Orleans.

September leads for comfortable weather in Orleans: typically 26.3°C by day, 12.1°C at night, with 100 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high26.3°C

Typical low12.1°C

Rain in September100 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · August

75climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

74climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · September

81climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 75 — days reach only 4.5°C, 19° 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

54.5° / -6.1°

Feb

57.1° / -4.7°

Mar

1912.5° / -0.4°

Apr

4719.5° / 5°

May

7224.5° / 11.1°

Jun

6628.6° / 16°

Jul

6030.3° / 17.9°

Aug

6830° / 16.7°

Sep

7526.3° / 12.1°

Oct

6220.1° / 5.5°

Nov

2512.8° / 0.2°

Dec

56.6° / -3.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Orleans — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	4.5°C	-6.1°C	91 mm	7.1	9 h 44	5	Strong coverage
February	7.1°C	-4.7°C	86 mm	6.1	10 h 41	5	Strong coverage
March	12.5°C	-0.4°C	113 mm	8.5	11 h 50	19	Strong coverage
April	19.5°C	5°C	134 mm	9.3	13 h 09	47	Strong coverage
May	24.5°C	11.1°C	133 mm	9.6	14 h 15	72	Strong coverage
June	28.6°C	16°C	122 mm	8.6	14 h 51	66	Strong coverage
July	30.3°C	17.9°C	108 mm	7.7	14 h 37	60	Strong coverage
August	30°C	16.7°C	80 mm	6.1	13 h 40	68	Strong coverage
September	26.3°C	12.1°C	100 mm	5.7	12 h 23	75	Strong coverage
October	20.1°C	5.5°C	78 mm	5.7	11 h 07	62	Strong coverage
November	12.8°C	0.2°C	95 mm	6.8	10 h 01	25	Strong coverage
December	6.6°C	-3.8°C	98 mm	7.5	9 h 29	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Orleans runs +0.2°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

+0.4

Feb

+0.9

Mar

-0.6

Apr

+0.7

May

+0.5

Jun

+0.2

Jul

-0.2

Aug

—

Sep

-0.2

Oct

-0.5

Nov

-0.6

Dec

+1.6

September daytime highs, 2011–2018. Last recorded: 27.4°C.

Records at PAOLI, 1898–2019
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	23.9°C24 Jan 1943	-33.9°C19 Jan 1994	102 mm14 Jan 1937	441 mm1937 · driest 15 mm in 1946	119
February	25.6°C10 Feb 1932	-32.2°C2 Feb 1951	106 mm14 Feb 1908	215 mm2018 · driest 6 mm in 1947	117
March	31.1°C24 Mar 1929	-27.2°C6 Mar 1960	133 mm18 Mar 2008	363 mm1964 · driest 7 mm in 1986	119
April	32.2°C23 Apr 1925	-11.1°C9 Apr 1917	103 mm29 Apr 1996	350 mm2011 · driest 22 mm in 1962	119
May	35.6°C28 May 1914	-3.9°C1 May 1963	124 mm23 May 1902	309 mm1927 · driest 4 mm in 1988	122
June	40.6°C29 Jun 2012	1.1°C11 Jun 1913	108 mm19 Jun 1964	323 mm1949 · driest 5 mm in 2012	122
July	43.9°C22 Jul 1901	5.6°C7 Jul 1983	146 mm21 Jul 1973	272 mm1979 · driest 5 mm in 1919	120
August	41.1°C10 Aug 1911	4.4°C27 Aug 1910	105 mm10 Aug 1899	224 mm1977 · driest 13 mm in 1953	120
September	40.6°C2 Sep 1953	-3.9°C29 Sep 1942	108 mm11 Sep 1905	321 mm1996 · driest 7 mm in 2010	119
October	35.6°C5 Oct 1900	-11.1°C29 Oct 1925	111 mm5 Oct 1910	345 mm1919 · driest 1 mm in 1908	120
November	29.4°C1 Nov 1950	-20.6°C30 Nov 1958	98 mm1 Nov 2018	235 mm1985 · driest 11 mm in 1904	120
December	25.0°C2 Dec 1982	-30.6°C11 Dec 1917	87 mm23 Dec 1921	208 mm1921 · driest 9 mm in 1989	120

Typical days per month at PAOLI, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	24	3	3
February	<1	0	22	3	2
March	1	0	17	4	<1
April	6	<1	6	5	0
May	16	4	<1	4	0
June	26	13	0	4	0
July	30	18	0	3	0
August	29	17	0	3	0
September	20	7	<1	3	0
October	7	<1	5	3	0
November	<1	0	16	4	<1
December	0	0	22	3	1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 80); on 2011–2025 it is May (80). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in PAOLI’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%	27%	11%	29%	1.3–8.7°C
February	2%	27%	10%	30%	3.0–10.7°C
March	12%	31%	13%	38%	9.2–16.8°C
April	32%	34%	13%	44%	16.5–21.3°C
May	58%	31%	13%	39%	22.0–27.0°C
June	70%	30%	13%	35%	27.1–31.1°C
July	75%	26%	11%	27%	29.3–33.5°C
August	77%	23%	10%	22%	28.8–32.9°C
September	74%	22%	10%	19%	24.6–29.4°C
October	48%	21%	9%	20%	18.6–23.3°C
November	12%	26%	11%	28%	10.0–15.6°C
December	<1%	27%	11%	32%	3.3–9.7°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.

1899Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 107-year average. Warmest: 1921. Coolest: 1917.2018

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4262618
NOAA station: USC00126705 · PAOLI
Station distance: 12.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 38.66°, 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 PAOLI is what differs

Paoli→French Lick→West Baden Springs→Hardinsburg→Abydel→Bonds→

Or put two places side by side: Orleans vs Paoli

Best time to visitOrleans.