United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Nicholasville.

September leads for comfortable weather in Nicholasville: typically 27.2°C by day, 14.9°C at night, with 80 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high27.2°C

Typical low14.9°C

Rain in September80 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · October

80climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

78climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · November

83climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 80 — days reach only 7.4°C, 17° 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

57.4° / -2°

Feb

1310.2° / -0.9°

Mar

3014.5° / 2.3°

Apr

6020.6° / 7.7°

May

7624.8° / 12.9°

Jun

6428.6° / 17.4°

Jul

5330.6° / 19.8°

Aug

6130.7° / 19°

Sep

8027.2° / 14.9°

Oct

7221.4° / 8.8°

Nov

3914.5° / 3.9°

Dec

88.5° / -0.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Nicholasville — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	7.4°C	-2°C	86 mm	7.9	9 h 48	5	Good coverage
February	10.2°C	-0.9°C	93 mm	8.1	10 h 44	13	Good coverage
March	14.5°C	2.3°C	106 mm	9.2	11 h 50	30	Good coverage
April	20.6°C	7.7°C	107 mm	9.5	13 h 07	60	Good coverage
May	24.8°C	12.9°C	120 mm	9.5	14 h 12	76	Good coverage
June	28.6°C	17.4°C	112 mm	9.8	14 h 46	64	Good coverage
July	30.6°C	19.8°C	115 mm	8.7	14 h 33	53	Good coverage
August	30.7°C	19°C	78 mm	7.1	13 h 37	61	Good coverage
September	27.2°C	14.9°C	80 mm	6.1	12 h 23	80	Good coverage
October	21.4°C	8.8°C	69 mm	6.8	11 h 09	72	Good coverage
November	14.5°C	3.9°C	75 mm	7.5	10 h 04	39	Good coverage
December	8.5°C	-0.5°C	90 mm	8.1	9 h 33	8	Good coverage

Records at DIX DAM, 1953–2007
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	23.3°C31 Jan 2002	-27.8°C24 Jan 1963	76 mm23 Jan 2003	161 mm1974 · driest 11 mm in 1981	52
February	26.7°C23 Feb 1996	-21.7°C4 Feb 1996	100 mm14 Feb 1989	305 mm1989 · driest 8 mm in 2002	52
March	28.3°C31 Mar 1963	-18.9°C5 Mar 1960	106 mm2 Mar 1997	304 mm1997 · driest 5 mm in 2007	53
April	31.7°C22 Apr 1987	-11.1°C8 Apr 2007	93 mm12 Apr 1972	332 mm1972 · driest 29 mm in 1986	54
May	34.4°C31 May 1954	-2.2°C1 May 1963	75 mm7 May 1984	254 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 2007	54
June	38.3°C26 Jun 1954	5.0°C1 Jun 1966	72 mm1 Jun 1997	296 mm1997 · driest 8 mm in 2007	54
July	40.0°C14 Jul 1954	8.3°C7 Jul 1972	141 mm31 Jul 1978	255 mm1973 · driest 16 mm in 1999	54
August	39.4°C17 Aug 2007	6.7°C29 Aug 1986	89 mm10 Aug 1955	283 mm1974 · driest 0 mm in 2007	53
September	40.6°C5 Sep 1954	1.7°C24 Sep 1983	94 mm22 Sep 1979	244 mm1979 · driest 12 mm in 2001	54
October	32.8°C4 Oct 1959	-5.0°C31 Oct 1954	100 mm11 Oct 2002	181 mm1983 · driest 2 mm in 1963	52
November	28.9°C1 Nov 1971	-13.9°C30 Nov 1958	102 mm9 Nov 1986	286 mm1986 · driest 12 mm in 1976	55
December	24.4°C4 Dec 1982	-27.2°C23 Dec 1989	93 mm9 Dec 1978	298 mm1978 · driest 2 mm in 2006	55

Typical days per month at DIX DAM, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	20	3	<1
February	<1	0	17	3	<1
March	1	0	12	4	0
April	7	0	3	3	0
May	17	3	0	4	0
June	26	12	0	3	0
July	29	19	0	3	0
August	29	19	0	3	0
September	21	8	0	2	0
October	9	<1	1	2	0
November	<1	0	9	2	0
December	0	0	18	2	0

How often, not how much — every day in DIX DAM’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%	26%	10%	29%	2.9–9.9°C
February	4%	28%	11%	36%	5.0–12.2°C
March	18%	30%	12%	37%	11.5–17.6°C
April	43%	32%	12%	41%	18.0–22.7°C
May	63%	31%	14%	40%	22.6–27.5°C
June	70%	30%	12%	36%	27.1–30.3°C
July	73%	29%	13%	32%	29.2–32.5°C
August	77%	24%	9%	22%	29.0–32.3°C
September	77%	21%	9%	20%	25.0–29.7°C
October	53%	22%	8%	24%	19.0–23.3°C
November	18%	26%	9%	30%	12.0–16.6°C
December	2%	27%	10%	29%	5.3–11.2°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.

1954Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 48-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1958.2006

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4302561
NOAA station: USC00152214 · DIX DAM
Station distance: 15.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 16 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 37.88°, 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 DIX DAM is what differs

Harrodsburg→Wilmore→Jackson→Burgin→Salvisa→High Bridge→

Or put two places side by side: Nicholasville vs Harrodsburg

Best time to visitNicholasville.