United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
New Orleans.

April leads for comfortable weather in New Orleans: typically 26.1°C by day, 15.9°C at night, with 123 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high26.1°C

Typical low15.9°C

Rain in April123 mm

Comfort

April

April · October · November

77climate match

Beach

May

May · October · April

77climate match

Outdoors

February

February · November · March

78climate match

The weakest month is August, scoring 22 against April’s 77 — days average 33.4°C, 9° above the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and 185 mm of rain falls.

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

4817.5° / 7°

Feb

5819° / 8.5°

Mar

7422.6° / 12.1°

Apr

7726.1° / 15.9°

May

5929.5° / 19.8°

Jun

2932.5° / 23.3°

Jul

2333.3° / 24.3°

Aug

2233.4° / 24.5°

Sep

3231.4° / 22.5°

Oct

7727.3° / 16.8°

Nov

7622.3° / 11.5°

Dec

5118.4° / 8°

Monthly climate evidence for New Orleans — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 20 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	17.5°C	7°C	122 mm	7.7	14.2°C	10 h 25	48	Good coverage
February	19°C	8.5°C	109 mm	6.5	14.6°C	11 h 05	58	Good coverage
March	22.6°C	12.1°C	129 mm	5.8	17.6°C	11 h 54	74	Good coverage
April	26.1°C	15.9°C	123 mm	5.2	21.5°C	12 h 51	77	Good coverage
May	29.5°C	19.8°C	121 mm	5.1	25.4°C	13 h 38	59	Good coverage
June	32.5°C	23.3°C	181 mm	10.8	28.8°C	14 h 04	29	Good coverage
July	33.3°C	24.3°C	189 mm	11.8	29.8°C	13 h 54	23	Good coverage
August	33.4°C	24.5°C	185 mm	12.4	29.9°C	13 h 13	22	Good coverage
September	31.4°C	22.5°C	206 mm	9.5	28.2°C	12 h 18	32	Good coverage
October	27.3°C	16.8°C	85 mm	5.7	24.2°C	11 h 24	77	Good coverage
November	22.3°C	11.5°C	102 mm	5.4	19.6°C	10 h 36	76	Good coverage
December	18.4°C	8°C	135 mm	7.2	16.2°C	10 h 14	51	Good coverage

Records at TERRYTOWN 3S, 1997–2017
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.9°C25 Jan 2002	-5.0°C4 Jan 2001	118 mm7 Jan 1998	435 mm1998 · driest 18 mm in 2003	20
February	28.3°C16 Feb 2001	-2.2°C12 Feb 2011	91 mm2 Feb 2006	262 mm2005 · driest 12 mm in 2000	20
March	30.6°C7 Mar 2004	-3.3°C5 Mar 2002	152 mm30 Mar 2011	269 mm1998 · driest 7 mm in 2006	20
April	32.8°C25 Apr 1999	2.8°C19 Apr 1999	114 mm15 Apr 2015	338 mm2013 · driest 2 mm in 1999	19
May	35.6°C29 May 2012	6.1°C4 May 2013	132 mm4 May 2017	270 mm2010 · driest 7 mm in 2011	19
June	39.4°C25 Jun 2009	17.2°C8 Jun 2000	172 mm11 Jun 2001	650 mm2001 · driest 65 mm in 2011	19
July	37.8°C4 Jul 2009	19.4°C28 Jul 2003	172 mm6 Jul 2005	522 mm2011 · driest 31 mm in 2000	19
August	41.7°C12 Aug 2007	17.2°C14 Aug 2004	185 mm29 Aug 2012	571 mm2012 · driest 47 mm in 2011	19
September	38.3°C3 Sep 2000	11.1°C27 Sep 2000	247 mm26 Sep 2002	718 mm1998 · driest 43 mm in 1997	20
October	36.1°C6 Oct 2009	5.6°C29 Oct 2001	193 mm23 Oct 2007	291 mm2007 · driest 1 mm in 2016	20
November	30.6°C7 Nov 2005	-1.7°C22 Nov 2000	147 mm8 Nov 2016	310 mm2000 · driest 15 mm in 2009	20
December	28.3°C8 Dec 1998	-3.9°C31 Dec 2000	222 mm22 Dec 2006	553 mm2009 · driest 22 mm in 2011	19

Typical days per month at TERRYTOWN 3S, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	3	0	4	3
February	4	0	1	3
March	11	<1	<1	3
April	21	3	0	3
May	29	15	0	3
June	30	28	0	5
July	31	30	0	5
August	31	29	0	5
September	29	23	0	5
October	24	8	0	2
November	10	<1	<1	3
December	5	0	1	3

How often, not how much — every day in TERRYTOWN 3S’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	27%	25%	10%	26%	15.1–20.4°C
February	36%	23%	11%	21%	16.6–21.4°C
March	62%	19%	10%	14%	20.5–24.6°C
April	80%	17%	9%	14%	24.6–28.1°C
May	83%	17%	10%	18%	28.1–31.1°C
June	64%	36%	15%	48%	31.3–33.9°C
July	62%	38%	16%	50%	32.4–34.5°C
August	60%	40%	17%	61%	32.2–34.8°C
September	68%	31%	17%	36%	30.5–32.6°C
October	77%	18%	7%	18%	26.4–28.5°C
November	58%	18%	9%	14%	20.1–24.0°C
December	29%	24%	11%	21%	16.2–20.2°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.

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4335045
NOAA station: USC00168941 · TERRYTOWN 3S
Station distance: 6.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 19 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 29.95°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 20 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
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 TERRYTOWN 3S is what differs

Terrytown→Harvey→Gretna→Chalmette→Woodmere→Timberlane→

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
New Orleans.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.