United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Russell.

September leads for comfortable weather in Russell: typically 26.7°C by day, 12.6°C at night, with 91 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high26.7°C

Typical low12.6°C

Rain in September91 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · June

75climate match

Beach

August

August · June · July

69climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · May

78climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 75 — days reach only 5.6°C, 18° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -5.9°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° / -5.9°

Feb

58.1° / -4.8°

Mar

1913.5° / -0.7°

Apr

5320.4° / 4.4°

May

7125° / 10.2°

Jun

6529.2° / 15.4°

Jul

5530.8° / 17.7°

Aug

6330.3° / 16.7°

Sep

7526.7° / 12.6°

Oct

6120.5° / 5.5°

Nov

2713.4° / -0.1°

Dec

57.5° / -3.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Russell — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	5.6°C	-5.9°C	82 mm	10.1	9 h 45	5	Strong coverage
February	8.1°C	-4.8°C	92 mm	9.9	10 h 42	5	Strong coverage
March	13.5°C	-0.7°C	108 mm	11.2	11 h 50	19	Strong coverage
April	20.4°C	4.4°C	105 mm	10.4	13 h 09	53	Strong coverage
May	25°C	10.2°C	111 mm	10.2	14 h 15	71	Strong coverage
June	29.2°C	15.4°C	110 mm	10.2	14 h 50	65	Strong coverage
July	30.8°C	17.7°C	122 mm	9.6	14 h 36	55	Strong coverage
August	30.3°C	16.7°C	95 mm	7.9	13 h 40	63	Strong coverage
September	26.7°C	12.6°C	91 mm	7.3	12 h 23	75	Strong coverage
October	20.5°C	5.5°C	78 mm	7.6	11 h 07	61	Strong coverage
November	13.4°C	-0.1°C	76 mm	8.3	10 h 01	27	Strong coverage
December	7.5°C	-3.5°C	97 mm	10	9 h 29	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Russell runs -0.3°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

-0.3

Feb

+0.9

Mar

-0.4

Apr

-0.3

May

-0.5

Jun

-0.3

Jul

-0.4

Aug

-0.7

Sep

-0.4

Oct

-0.7

Nov

-1.7

Dec

+0.7

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 27.6°C.

Records at ASHLAND, 1897–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.7°C26 Jan 1950	-31.7°C19 Jan 1994	59 mm1 Jan 1945	294 mm1937 · driest 0 mm in 1897	107
February	26.7°C1 Feb 2002	-30.6°C10 Feb 1899	102 mm16 Feb 2010	236 mm1989 · driest 7 mm in 1941	109
March	33.3°C26 Mar 1929	-22.8°C6 Mar 2015	102 mm20 Mar 2002	247 mm1997 · driest 17 mm in 1979	108
April	34.4°C24 Apr 1925	-12.8°C9 Apr 1996	76 mm5 Apr 1898	243 mm2011 · driest 28 mm in 1986	108
May	41.1°C20 May 1996	-6.7°C1 May 1996	102 mm11 May 2011	238 mm1996 · driest 21 mm in 1964	108
June	39.4°C30 Jun 2012	-1.1°C10 Jun 1988	104 mm12 Jun 1962	216 mm1962 · driest 15 mm in 1966	109
July	41.7°C28 Jul 1930	1.1°C1 Jul 1988	143 mm20 Jul 1973	280 mm1961 · driest 26 mm in 1999	106
August	40.6°C1 Aug 1999	-1.1°C31 Aug 1986	101 mm4 Aug 1933	212 mm1979 · driest 10 mm in 2002	107
September	38.3°C3 Sep 1953	-2.8°C24 Sep 1974	95 mm17 Sep 1995	268 mm2006 · driest 5 mm in 2019	107
October	33.9°C7 Oct 1941	-12.2°C14 Oct 1988	72 mm22 Oct 1929	173 mm2006 · driest 3 mm in 1963	104
November	29.4°C5 Nov 1948	-16.7°C30 Nov 1929	84 mm4 Nov 2004	208 mm1921 · driest 13 mm in 1976	104
December	27.8°C4 Dec 1982	-27.8°C23 Dec 1989	71 mm3 Dec 1991	234 mm1990 · driest 10 mm in 1965	103

Typical days per month at ASHLAND, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	<1	0	23	3	2
February	<1	0	22	3	<1
March	2	<1	18	4	<1
April	8	1	7	3	0
May	17	6	<1	4	0
June	25	14	0	4	0
July	28	19	0	4	0
August	29	17	0	3	0
September	20	8	<1	3	0
October	8	1	5	3	0
November	<1	0	16	3	0
December	<1	0	21	4	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 80); on 2011–2025 it is May (82). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in ASHLAND’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%	33%	10%	39%	2.4–10.2°C
February	4%	33%	10%	43%	4.2–12.3°C
March	15%	35%	12%	48%	10.3–17.8°C
April	37%	34%	11%	45%	17.3–22.9°C
May	57%	35%	12%	45%	22.5–27.8°C
June	69%	31%	12%	37%	27.4–31.2°C
July	70%	30%	13%	35%	29.0–32.8°C
August	73%	27%	10%	28%	28.3–32.0°C
September	73%	23%	9%	22%	24.7–29.9°C
October	50%	23%	7%	24%	18.3–23.9°C
November	15%	29%	9%	35%	11.1–16.9°C
December	2%	30%	9%	37%	5.1–11.6°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.

1897Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 92-year average. Warmest: 1921. Coolest: 1996.2023

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4306972
NOAA station: USC00150254 · ASHLAND
Station distance: 10.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 38.52°, 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 ASHLAND is what differs

Meads→Ashland→Ironton→Flatwoods→Westwood→Raceland→

Or put two places side by side: Russell vs Meads

Best time to visitRussell.

September

August

October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Russell runs -0.3°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Russell.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Russell runs -0.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.