United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Carbondale.

September leads for comfortable weather in Carbondale: typically 27.4°C by day, 14.1°C at night, with 84 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high27.4°C

Typical low14.1°C

Rain in September84 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · October

78climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

73climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · November

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 78 — days reach only 5°C, 19° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -6.9°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

55° / -6.9°

Feb

87.3° / -5°

Mar

3513.9° / 0.8°

Apr

5719.8° / 6.3°

May

7524.8° / 12.3°

Jun

5730° / 17.9°

Jul

5032.6° / 20.4°

Aug

5131.9° / 19.1°

Sep

7827.4° / 14.1°

Oct

6320.2° / 7°

Nov

3813.6° / 0.6°

Dec

66.5° / -5.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Carbondale — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	5°C	-6.9°C	20 mm	3.3	9 h 43	5	Good coverage
February	7.3°C	-5°C	31 mm	3.8	10 h 41	8	Good coverage
March	13.9°C	0.8°C	57 mm	6.7	11 h 50	35	Good coverage
April	19.8°C	6.3°C	99 mm	8.3	13 h 09	57	Good coverage
May	24.8°C	12.3°C	122 mm	9.3	14 h 16	75	Good coverage
June	30°C	17.9°C	126 mm	8.7	14 h 52	57	Good coverage
July	32.6°C	20.4°C	97 mm	6.7	14 h 38	50	Good coverage
August	31.9°C	19.1°C	118 mm	7.1	13 h 41	51	Good coverage
September	27.4°C	14.1°C	84 mm	6.1	12 h 23	78	Good coverage
October	20.2°C	7°C	82 mm	6.7	11 h 07	63	Good coverage
November	13.6°C	0.6°C	41 mm	3.9	10 h 00	38	Good coverage
December	6.5°C	-5.1°C	35 mm	3.4	9 h 28	6	Good coverage

Records at TOPEKA FORBES FLD, 1949–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.1°C28 Jan 2015	-24.9°C6 Jan 2014	31 mm3 Jan 1949	113 mm1949 · driest 0 mm in 2012	48
February	27.2°C26 Feb 2024	-29.3°C16 Feb 2021	36 mm3 Feb 2012	77 mm2001 · driest 0 mm in 2006	49
March	35.0°C21 Mar 2026	-22.2°C12 Mar 1998	60 mm4 Mar 2004	203 mm1961 · driest 5 mm in 1955	48
April	35.0°C25 Apr 2012	-8.8°C8 Apr 2007	97 mm1 Apr 1967	233 mm1999 · driest 17 mm in 1963	49
May	36.1°C21 May 1956	-2.2°C3 May 2005	164 mm6 May 2007	273 mm2015 · driest 16 mm in 1966	49
June	41.7°C28 Jun 2012	4.4°C6 Jun 1998	127 mm13 Jun 1965	398 mm1965 · driest 9 mm in 2023	49
July	43.9°C13 Jul 1954	9.4°C3 Jul 2014	118 mm10 Jul 1957	359 mm1968 · driest 12 mm in 1999	48
August	44.4°C2 Aug 2011	8.3°C31 Aug 2009	112 mm23 Aug 2004	260 mm2019 · driest 18 mm in 1969	48
September	42.8°C2 Sep 2000	1.7°C29 Sep 2003	93 mm3 Sep 2021	205 mm1970 · driest 17 mm in 1954	48
October	35.6°C10 Oct 1963	-7.7°C19 Oct 2022	121 mm7 Oct 1958	177 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 2024	48
November	28.9°C8 Nov 2006	-16.0°C12 Nov 2019	103 mm1 Nov 1998	186 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1954	48
December	24.4°C15 Dec 2021	-24.3°C18 Dec 2016	56 mm24 Dec 2023	94 mm2023 · driest 2 mm in 2010	47

Typical days per month at TOPEKA FORBES FLD, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	28	<1
February	<1	0	23	1
March	2	<1	15	2
April	7	<1	5	3
May	16	6	<1	4
June	27	16	0	4
July	30	23	0	3
August	29	21	0	4
September	21	10	0	3
October	7	2	4	2
November	1	0	15	1
December	0	0	27	1

How often, not how much — every day in TOPEKA FORBES FLD’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%	12%	2%	6%	0.1–7.2°C
February	5%	14%	3%	9%	2.7–11.7°C
March	19%	21%	6%	20%	8.8–17.3°C
April	39%	26%	10%	25%	16.7–22.1°C
May	58%	29%	12%	35%	21.9–26.5°C
June	70%	29%	13%	37%	27.1–32.2°C
July	77%	23%	10%	19%	29.5–34.6°C
August	79%	21%	10%	20%	29.0–33.9°C
September	75%	21%	9%	19%	24.2–30.0°C
October	48%	19%	7%	19%	17.4–23.1°C
November	17%	13%	4%	9%	9.7–15.8°C
December	2%	13%	3%	7%	3.6–9.5°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.

1953Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 43-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1961.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4269076
NOAA station: USW00013920 · TOPEKA FORBES FLD
Station distance: 14 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 22 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 38.82°, 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 TOPEKA FORBES FLD is what differs

Auburn→Wakarusa→Berryton→Cullen Village→Four Corners→Lindbloom Park (historical)→

Or put two places side by side: Carbondale vs Auburn

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