United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Alta Vista.

September leads for comfortable weather in Alta Vista: typically 27.1°C by day, 13.9°C at night, with 81 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high27.1°C

Typical low13.9°C

Rain in September81 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · October

78climate match

Beach

June

June · July · August

70climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · September

85climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 78 — days reach only 4.4°C, 20° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -7.5°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

54.4° / -7.5°

Feb

77.1° / -5.4°

Mar

3213.2° / 0.2°

Apr

5618.8° / 6°

May

7423.8° / 12.2°

Jun

6229.2° / 17.6°

Jul

4932.1° / 20.2°

Aug

5431.4° / 19°

Sep

7827.1° / 13.9°

Oct

6720.5° / 6.7°

Nov

3412.7° / 0.1°

Dec

56° / -5.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Alta Vista — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	4.4°C	-7.5°C	17 mm	3.5	9 h 43	5	Strong coverage
February	7.1°C	-5.4°C	32 mm	3.7	10 h 41	7	Strong coverage
March	13.2°C	0.2°C	59 mm	5.6	11 h 50	32	Strong coverage
April	18.8°C	6°C	86 mm	7.4	13 h 10	56	Strong coverage
May	23.8°C	12.2°C	135 mm	9.7	14 h 16	74	Strong coverage
June	29.2°C	17.6°C	119 mm	7.6	14 h 52	62	Strong coverage
July	32.1°C	20.2°C	112 mm	7.6	14 h 38	49	Strong coverage
August	31.4°C	19°C	109 mm	7.6	13 h 41	54	Strong coverage
September	27.1°C	13.9°C	81 mm	6.3	12 h 24	78	Strong coverage
October	20.5°C	6.7°C	61 mm	5.8	11 h 07	67	Strong coverage
November	12.7°C	0.1°C	41 mm	4.1	10 h	34	Strong coverage
December	6°C	-5.2°C	29 mm	3.8	9 h 27	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Alta Vista runs +1.1°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

+2.1

Feb

+1.1

Mar

+1.9

Apr

+0.2

May

+0.3

Jun

+1.5

Jul

0.0

Aug

-0.2

Sep

+1.3

Oct

+0.9

Nov

+1.4

Dec

+2.5

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.5°C.

Records at COUNCIL GROVE LAKE, 1964–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	24.4°C11 Jan 1990	-27.2°C20 Jan 1985	29 mm3 Jan 1971	49 mm2024 · driest 0 mm in 1986	61
February	26.7°C21 Feb 1981	-30.6°C1 Feb 1979	56 mm21 Feb 1997	91 mm2001 · driest 0 mm in 1991	62
March	34.4°C22 Mar 2026	-22.8°C4 Mar 1978	64 mm14 Mar 1995	202 mm1973 · driest 2 mm in 1966	61
April	35.0°C14 Apr 2006	-14.4°C3 Apr 1975	110 mm1 Apr 1967	231 mm1999 · driest 11 mm in 1989	61
May	37.2°C31 May 1998	-1.1°C3 May 1976	111 mm22 May 1971	344 mm2015 · driest 20 mm in 2009	60
June	44.4°C28 Jun 1980	5.0°C1 Jun 2012	134 mm1 Jun 1996	329 mm1967 · driest 10 mm in 1980	62
July	45.6°C11 Jul 1980	7.8°C5 Jul 1972	93 mm4 Jul 1983	387 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1975	62
August	43.3°C30 Aug 1984	7.2°C26 Aug 2025	115 mm31 Aug 2003	269 mm2005 · driest 1 mm in 1971	62
September	42.2°C3 Sep 2000	-2.2°C30 Sep 1984	118 mm3 Sep 2021	249 mm1973 · driest 15 mm in 1990	61
October	35.6°C4 Oct 2006	-9.4°C31 Oct 1993	107 mm11 Oct 1973	166 mm2002 · driest 5 mm in 1999	62
November	30.0°C9 Nov 2006	-18.3°C28 Nov 1976	93 mm16 Nov 1964	184 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1989	62
December	23.9°C29 Dec 1984	-31.1°C24 Dec 1989	51 mm30 Dec 1972	94 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 2019	61

Typical days per month at COUNCIL GROVE LAKE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	29	<1	2
February	<1	0	24	1	2
March	2	0	17	2	<1
April	6	1	4	3	<1
May	15	5	<1	4	0
June	26	14	0	4	0
July	30	22	0	3	0
August	29	20	0	3	0
September	21	10	<1	3	0
October	9	2	4	2	0
November	1	0	16	1	<1
December	0	0	27	<1	2

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was May (scoring 81); on 2011–2025 it is September (81). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in COUNCIL GROVE LAKE’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%	11%	1%	5%	0.1–7.3°C
February	6%	12%	3%	6%	1.3–11.3°C
March	20%	18%	7%	16%	9.2–15.8°C
April	37%	24%	9%	24%	16.5–21.6°C
May	56%	30%	13%	37%	21.4–25.6°C
June	73%	26%	12%	29%	26.8–30.9°C
July	77%	23%	10%	22%	30.0–34.4°C
August	76%	24%	9%	24%	28.7–34.5°C
September	73%	21%	9%	20%	24.3–29.8°C
October	49%	18%	7%	17%	18.0–22.5°C
November	16%	14%	5%	9%	9.0–16.1°C
December	2%	12%	3%	6%	2.6–8.9°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.

1965Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 56-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 1979.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4267527
NOAA station: USC00141867 · COUNCIL GROVE LAKE
Station distance: 21 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 38.86°, 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 COUNCIL GROVE LAKE is what differs

Council Grove→Dwight→Wilsey→Parkerville→Bushong→Dunlap→

Or put two places side by side: Alta Vista vs Council Grove

Best time to visitAlta Vista.