United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Fort Downer.

September leads for comfortable weather in Fort Downer: typically 28.1°C by day, 12.8°C at night, with 48 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high28.1°C

Typical low12.8°C

Rain in September48 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · October

80climate match

Beach

June

June · August · September

70climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · May

87climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 80 — days reach only 5.7°C, 18° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -7.6°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

55.7° / -7.6°

Feb

97.9° / -6.2°

Mar

3613.9° / -1.4°

Apr

6019° / 3.8°

May

7724.4° / 10.1°

Jun

6630.8° / 16.3°

Jul

4933.8° / 19.1°

Aug

5832.4° / 17.8°

Sep

8028.1° / 12.8°

Oct

6920.6° / 5.2°

Nov

3312.8° / -1.5°

Dec

56.4° / -6.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Fort Downer — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	5.7°C	-7.6°C	14 mm	2.3	9 h 43	5	Strong coverage
February	7.9°C	-6.2°C	22 mm	3.1	10 h 41	9	Strong coverage
March	13.9°C	-1.4°C	34 mm	3.9	11 h 50	36	Strong coverage
April	19°C	3.8°C	43 mm	5.7	13 h 09	60	Strong coverage
May	24.4°C	10.1°C	98 mm	7.9	14 h 16	77	Strong coverage
June	30.8°C	16.3°C	78 mm	6.6	14 h 52	66	Strong coverage
July	33.8°C	19.1°C	89 mm	6.7	14 h 38	49	Strong coverage
August	32.4°C	17.8°C	77 mm	6.4	13 h 41	58	Strong coverage
September	28.1°C	12.8°C	48 mm	4.5	12 h 24	80	Strong coverage
October	20.6°C	5.2°C	42 mm	4.1	11 h 07	69	Strong coverage
November	12.8°C	-1.5°C	22 mm	2.8	10 h 00	33	Strong coverage
December	6.4°C	-6.4°C	19 mm	2.8	9 h 27	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Fort Downer runs +1.3°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

+0.9

Feb

-0.3

Mar

+2.4

Apr

+0.6

May

+0.5

Jun

+2.4

Jul

+0.9

Aug

+0.8

Sep

+2.7

Oct

+0.4

Nov

+1.9

Dec

+1.8

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 28.1°C.

Records at WAKEENEY, 1892–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.3°C28 Jan 2015	-31.7°C12 Jan 1912	31 mm10 Jan 1985	56 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 1976	122
February	30.6°C19 Feb 2016	-28.3°C8 Feb 1933	38 mm27 Feb 1918	74 mm1918 · driest 0 mm in 1893	121
March	35.6°C26 Mar 2026	-26.1°C11 Mar 1948	52 mm19 Mar 1984	179 mm1973 · driest 0 mm in 1920	122
April	38.9°C23 Apr 1989	-14.4°C2 Apr 1936	74 mm13 Apr 1927	159 mm1984 · driest 0 mm in 2012	122
May	39.4°C23 May 1939	-6.7°C1 May 1909	140 mm29 May 2018	308 mm1995 · driest 6 mm in 1966	123
June	45.6°C28 Jun 2012	2.8°C2 Jun 1917	112 mm17 Jun 1957	321 mm1951 · driest 5 mm in 1981	123
July	46.1°C24 Jul 1936	6.1°C4 Jul 1924	188 mm29 Jul 1928	339 mm1993 · driest 1 mm in 2003	121
August	44.4°C24 Aug 1943	4.4°C26 Aug 1910	127 mm24 Aug 1960	219 mm1925 · driest 7 mm in 1976	122
September	42.8°C3 Sep 1947	-4.4°C30 Sep 1985	98 mm19 Sep 1995	176 mm1919 · driest 1 mm in 1956	121
October	37.2°C5 Oct 1947	-12.2°C29 Oct 1917	87 mm5 Oct 1946	195 mm1946 · driest 0 mm in 1938	122
November	31.7°C9 Nov 2006	-20.0°C28 Nov 1976	62 mm16 Nov 1996	111 mm2024 · driest 0 mm in 1954	122
December	27.2°C6 Dec 1939	-31.7°C22 Dec 1989	68 mm5 Dec 1913	133 mm1913 · driest 0 mm in 1922	123

Typical days per month at WAKEENEY, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	30	<1	3
February	<1	0	25	<1	3
March	3	<1	19	1	2
April	7	2	6	1	<1
May	16	7	<1	3	<1
June	26	18	0	3	0
July	30	26	0	3	0
August	29	23	0	2	0
September	22	13	<1	1	0
October	10	3	4	1	<1
November	2	<1	19	<1	1
December	0	0	29	<1	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 83); on 2011–2025 it is May (84). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in WAKEENEY’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	2%	8%	1%	3%	0.7–9.5°C
February	8%	10%	2%	7%	3.4–12.9°C
March	24%	13%	3%	10%	8.5–17.9°C
April	43%	19%	5%	18%	16.0–22.1°C
May	60%	26%	9%	29%	21.5–26.3°C
June	74%	25%	9%	26%	27.0–33.0°C
July	79%	21%	9%	19%	31.1–35.9°C
August	80%	20%	7%	16%	30.0–35.1°C
September	78%	16%	5%	10%	25.1–30.6°C
October	58%	12%	3%	8%	17.6–24.2°C
November	19%	9%	3%	6%	9.8–16.6°C
December	3%	8%	1%	3%	3.2–9.8°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.

1907Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 116-year average. Warmest: 1934. Coolest: 1985.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4271680
NOAA station: USC00148495 · WAKEENEY
Station distance: 21.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 38.84°, 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 WAKEENEY is what differs

WaKeeney→Ogallah→Togo→Trego Center→Voda→

Or put two places side by side: Fort Downer vs WaKeeney

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