United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Big South Fork (historical).

September leads for comfortable weather in Big South Fork (historical): typically 26°C by day, 11.8°C at night, with 101 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high26°C

Typical low11.8°C

Rain in September101 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · May

75climate match

Beach

August

August · June · July

71climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · September

78climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 75 — days reach only 7.3°C, 17° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -4.6°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

57.3° / -4.6°

Feb

59.4° / -3.8°

Mar

2715.4° / 0.5°

Apr

5320.6° / 4.5°

May

6824.7° / 9.7°

Jun

7028.2° / 14.7°

Jul

5529.9° / 17.2°

Aug

6829.4° / 16.2°

Sep

7526° / 11.8°

Oct

6220.7° / 4.5°

Nov

2814.3° / -0.2°

Dec

58.8° / -2.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Big South Fork (historical) — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	7.3°C	-4.6°C	109 mm	9.1	9 h 54	5	Good coverage
February	9.4°C	-3.8°C	117 mm	9.1	10 h 47	5	Good coverage
March	15.4°C	0.5°C	128 mm	8.7	11 h 51	27	Good coverage
April	20.6°C	4.5°C	119 mm	8.9	13 h 05	53	Good coverage
May	24.7°C	9.7°C	134 mm	9.8	14 h 06	68	Good coverage
June	28.2°C	14.7°C	117 mm	8	14 h 39	70	Good coverage
July	29.9°C	17.2°C	150 mm	9.4	14 h 26	55	Good coverage
August	29.4°C	16.2°C	94 mm	6.7	13 h 34	68	Good coverage
September	26°C	11.8°C	101 mm	6.2	12 h 22	75	Good coverage
October	20.7°C	4.5°C	73 mm	6.2	11 h 11	62	Good coverage
November	14.3°C	-0.2°C	95 mm	7.2	10 h 09	28	Good coverage
December	8.8°C	-2.8°C	134 mm	8.9	9 h 40	5	Good coverage

Records at STEARNS 2S, 1936–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	24.4°C25 Jan 1943	-31.1°C21 Jan 1985	68 mm8 Jan 1998	317 mm1937 · driest 29 mm in 1986	48
February	25.6°C21 Feb 2018	-27.2°C4 Feb 1996	107 mm6 Feb 2004	300 mm1939 · driest 18 mm in 1941	48
March	30.6°C23 Mar 2026	-19.4°C15 Mar 1993	89 mm18 Mar 2002	271 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 1999	50
April	33.9°C30 Apr 1942	-9.4°C8 Apr 2007	69 mm17 Apr 1998	238 mm2003 · driest 17 mm in 1942	49
May	35.6°C22 May 1941	-2.8°C5 May 1997	102 mm7 May 1984	259 mm1983 · driest 16 mm in 1941	52
June	38.3°C18 Jun 1936	2.2°C12 Jun 1988	83 mm4 Jun 1983	252 mm1989 · driest 0 mm in 1993	51
July	42.2°C12 Jul 1936	4.4°C4 Jul 1988	103 mm8 Jul 2022	611 mm2022 · driest 16 mm in 1944	54
August	38.3°C11 Aug 1980	4.4°C30 Aug 1986	99 mm19 Aug 2010	251 mm2017 · driest 28 mm in 2016	53
September	35.6°C10 Sep 1983	-1.7°C30 Sep 1991	101 mm2 Sep 1982	279 mm1989 · driest 0 mm in 1993	51
October	33.9°C7 Oct 1941	-8.3°C23 Oct 1987	65 mm10 Oct 1999	182 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 1963	50
November	27.8°C1 Nov 1984	-12.8°C23 Nov 2008	83 mm9 Nov 1986	195 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 1998	51
December	25.0°C4 Dec 1982	-27.8°C24 Dec 1989	102 mm23 Dec 1990	431 mm1991 · driest 10 mm in 1965	49

Typical days per month at STEARNS 2S, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	23	4	2
February	0	0	22	3	1
March	2	0	15	5	<1
April	9	<1	7	4	0
May	16	3	1	4	0
June	24	12	0	4	0
July	29	17	0	5	0
August	28	15	0	3	0
September	19	6	<1	3	0
October	7	<1	7	2	0
November	<1	0	16	4	<1
December	0	0	21	4	<1

How often, not how much — every day in STEARNS 2S’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%	31%	14%	35%	3.5–10.2°C
February	3%	35%	14%	42%	5.4–11.8°C
March	20%	32%	15%	37%	11.3–17.9°C
April	41%	33%	13%	40%	18.2–22.6°C
May	60%	33%	14%	40%	22.4–27.3°C
June	71%	29%	14%	32%	26.7–31.0°C
July	69%	32%	15%	36%	28.3–32.1°C
August	76%	25%	10%	23%	27.7–31.6°C
September	75%	22%	10%	18%	24.6–28.2°C
October	49%	22%	9%	21%	18.5–22.8°C
November	17%	28%	12%	31%	11.3–17.0°C
December	2%	31%	14%	35%	5.0–12.4°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.

1937Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 36-year average. Warmest: 1941. Coolest: 1992.2012

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4284507
NOAA station: USC00157677 · STEARNS 2S
Station distance: 7.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 20 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 36.72°, 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 STEARNS 2S is what differs

Pine Knot→Stearns→Whitley City→Smith Town→Barthell→Beulah Heights→

Or put two places side by side: Big South Fork (historical) vs Pine Knot

Best time to visitBig South Fork (historical).