United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Lake Charles.

April leads for comfortable weather in Lake Charles: typically 25.7°C by day, 14.9°C at night, with 113 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high25.7°C

Typical low14.9°C

Rain in April113 mm

Comfort

April

April · March · October

81climate match

Beach

May

May · September · October

73climate match

Outdoors

February

February · November · March

81climate match

The weakest month is August, scoring 30 against April’s 81 — days average 33.4°C, 9° above 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

4016.8° / 6.1°

Feb

6118.9° / 8.1°

Mar

7822.4° / 11.5°

Apr

8125.7° / 14.9°

May

5729.4° / 19.4°

Jun

3532.2° / 22.9°

Jul

3333.1° / 24°

Aug

3033.4° / 23.7°

Sep

4631.6° / 21.3°

Oct

7327.5° / 15.5°

Nov

7121.9° / 10.1°

Dec

5118° / 7.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Lake Charles — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	16.8°C	6.1°C	149 mm	7.8	10 h 23	40	Strong coverage
February	18.9°C	8.1°C	83 mm	6.5	11 h 04	61	Strong coverage
March	22.4°C	11.5°C	93 mm	6.1	11 h 54	78	Strong coverage
April	25.7°C	14.9°C	113 mm	5.6	12 h 52	81	Strong coverage
May	29.4°C	19.4°C	137 mm	6.4	13 h 39	57	Strong coverage
June	32.2°C	22.9°C	166 mm	8.7	14 h 05	35	Strong coverage
July	33.1°C	24°C	145 mm	9.4	13 h 55	33	Strong coverage
August	33.4°C	23.7°C	158 mm	9.5	13 h 14	30	Strong coverage
September	31.6°C	21.3°C	132 mm	7.4	12 h 19	46	Strong coverage
October	27.5°C	15.5°C	122 mm	5.8	11 h 23	73	Strong coverage
November	21.9°C	10.1°C	105 mm	6.6	10 h 35	71	Strong coverage
December	18°C	7.1°C	116 mm	7.2	10 h 12	51	Strong coverage

What has changed

Lake Charles runs +1.2°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

+1.7

Feb

+2.1

Mar

+2.0

Apr

+0.6

May

+0.5

Jun

+0.8

Jul

+0.6

Aug

+1.0

Sep

+1.4

Oct

+1.2

Nov

+0.7

Dec

+1.7

April daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 26.9°C.

Records at LAKE CHARLES, 1961–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	27.8°C3 Jan 1989	-14.3°C22 Jan 2025	159 mm9 Jan 2012	363 mm1991 · driest 10 mm in 2009	65
February	28.9°C21 Feb 2026	-8.8°C16 Feb 2021	89 mm18 Feb 2012	204 mm2012 · driest 11 mm in 2001	65
March	32.2°C15 Mar 2008	-5.0°C4 Mar 2002	127 mm23 Mar 2021	235 mm2001 · driest 5 mm in 2006	65
April	35.0°C28 Apr 1987	1.1°C7 Apr 1971	163 mm4 Apr 2019	335 mm2015 · driest 3 mm in 2010	65
May	37.2°C21 May 2005	5.6°C4 May 2013	398 mm16 May 1980	526 mm1980 · driest 1 mm in 1998	65
June	39.4°C5 Jun 2011	13.3°C1 Jun 1984	176 mm27 Jun 2014	643 mm1989 · driest 21 mm in 1969	65
July	38.9°C22 Jul 2026	16.1°C15 Jul 1967	162 mm25 Jul 1979	335 mm1979 · driest 12 mm in 1962	65
August	42.8°C27 Aug 2023	15.0°C15 Aug 2004	260 mm29 Aug 1962	599 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 1999	64
September	40.6°C4 Sep 2000	8.3°C29 Sep 1967	245 mm20 Sep 1979	507 mm1973 · driest 11 mm in 1989	64
October	35.6°C3 Oct 2019	-1.1°C31 Oct 1993	242 mm9 Oct 2020	545 mm2002 · driest 0 mm in 1963	64
November	31.1°C4 Nov 2016	-5.0°C30 Nov 1976	254 mm13 Nov 1961	358 mm1961 · driest 3 mm in 1967	65
December	27.8°C8 Dec 1966	-11.7°C23 Dec 1989	168 mm3 Dec 2016	337 mm1967 · driest 25 mm in 2019	65

Typical days per month at LAKE CHARLES, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	1	0	5	4
February	3	0	2	3
March	10	<1	<1	3
April	21	1	0	3
May	30	15	0	3
June	30	27	0	5
July	31	29	0	5
August	31	29	0	4
September	30	23	0	4
October	24	9	0	3
November	10	<1	1	3
December	3	0	3	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was April (scoring 88); on 2011–2025 it is March (85). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in LAKE CHARLES’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	24%	25%	12%	25%	13.4–19.0°C
February	37%	22%	9%	20%	15.7–21.1°C
March	61%	20%	8%	15%	19.8–24.2°C
April	79%	18%	8%	16%	24.0–27.3°C
May	78%	22%	12%	24%	28.1–30.3°C
June	73%	27%	14%	31%	30.8–33.1°C
July	69%	31%	14%	37%	31.9–34.0°C
August	71%	29%	13%	37%	31.8–34.5°C
September	75%	25%	12%	26%	29.8–32.7°C
October	80%	17%	8%	15%	25.9–28.9°C
November	53%	22%	10%	21%	19.4–24.0°C
December	30%	24%	11%	24%	15.7–20.5°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.

1962Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 64-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1979.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4330236
NOAA station: USW00003937 · LAKE CHARLES
Station distance: 9.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 30.21°, 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 LAKE CHARLES is what differs

Prien→Carlyss→Harbor→Manchester→Bellevue→Bon Air→

Or put two places side by side: Lake Charles vs Prien

Best time to visitLake Charles.

April

May

February

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Lake Charles runs +1.2°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Lake Charles.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Lake Charles runs +1.2°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.