United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Ballard.

September leads for comfortable weather in Ballard: typically 26.3°C by day, 14.3°C at night, with 110 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high26.3°C

Typical low14.3°C

Rain in September110 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · June

77climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

73climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · May

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 77 — days reach only 4.5°C, 19° 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

54.5° / -6.2°

Feb

97.5° / -4.1°

Mar

2913.4° / 1°

Apr

5118.9° / 6.4°

May

7223.7° / 12.4°

Jun

6328.7° / 17.7°

Jul

5231.2° / 20°

Aug

5730.7° / 19°

Sep

7726.3° / 14.3°

Oct

6320.1° / 7.6°

Nov

3012.8° / 1.3°

Dec

56.7° / -3.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Ballard — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	4.5°C	-6.2°C	50 mm	5.1	9 h 46	5	Strong coverage
February	7.5°C	-4.1°C	41 mm	4.3	10 h 42	9	Strong coverage
March	13.4°C	1°C	79 mm	7.6	11 h 50	29	Strong coverage
April	18.9°C	6.4°C	117 mm	8.7	13 h 08	51	Strong coverage
May	23.7°C	12.4°C	149 mm	10.2	14 h 14	72	Strong coverage
June	28.7°C	17.7°C	118 mm	8.5	14 h 49	63	Strong coverage
July	31.2°C	20°C	114 mm	6.9	14 h 35	52	Strong coverage
August	30.7°C	19°C	106 mm	6.7	13 h 39	57	Strong coverage
September	26.3°C	14.3°C	110 mm	6.6	12 h 23	77	Strong coverage
October	20.1°C	7.6°C	85 mm	7.1	11 h 08	63	Strong coverage
November	12.8°C	1.3°C	81 mm	5.6	10 h 02	30	Strong coverage
December	6.7°C	-3.8°C	58 mm	5.2	9 h 30	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Ballard runs -0.8°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

+0.1

Feb

-1.0

Mar

-0.4

Apr

-1.9

May

-1.7

Jun

-0.4

Jul

-1.4

Aug

-1.9

Sep

-0.2

Oct

-1.1

Nov

-0.4

Dec

+1.1

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 28.9°C.

Records at APPLETON CITY, 1893–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	25.0°C24 Jan 1950	-30.0°C18 Jan 1930	114 mm11 Jan 2011	180 mm1907 · driest 0 mm in 2014	133
February	28.3°C1 Feb 1911	-33.9°C13 Feb 1905	65 mm21 Feb 1997	139 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 2006	129
March	34.4°C22 Mar 2026	-21.7°C12 Mar 1948	95 mm5 Mar 2004	259 mm1973 · driest 12 mm in 1966	131
April	34.4°C20 Apr 1902	-10.6°C5 Apr 1920	122 mm28 Apr 1994	390 mm1994 · driest 12 mm in 1989	131
May	37.8°C30 May 1934	-3.3°C4 May 1907	140 mm18 May 1943	409 mm1943 · driest 16 mm in 1911	128
June	42.2°C29 Jun 1952	5.0°C6 Jun 1897	114 mm4 Jun 1943	355 mm1981 · driest 12 mm in 1933	131
July	46.7°C14 Jul 1954	7.8°C6 Jul 1972	149 mm1 Jul 2007	354 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1936	131
August	44.4°C9 Aug 1936	6.7°C29 Aug 1988	232 mm13 Aug 1946	282 mm1902 · driest 0 mm in 1913	130
September	41.7°C6 Sep 1913	-1.7°C27 Sep 1942	162 mm14 Sep 1998	359 mm1986 · driest 6 mm in 1939	131
October	37.8°C13 Oct 1899	-7.8°C30 Oct 1917	231 mm3 Oct 1986	334 mm1986 · driest 1 mm in 1952	129
November	32.2°C6 Nov 1915	-17.2°C15 Nov 1940	86 mm8 Nov 2011	356 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1965	132
December	25.6°C26 Dec 2025	-30.0°C23 Dec 1989	81 mm2 Dec 1982	215 mm1895 · driest 2 mm in 2025	131

Typical days per month at APPLETON CITY, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	27	1	2
February	<1	0	22	2	1
March	2	<1	15	3	<1
April	6	<1	4	4	0
May	15	3	0	5	0
June	26	14	0	4	0
July	30	21	0	4	0
August	29	19	0	3	0
September	19	8	<1	3	0
October	8	1	3	3	0
November	<1	0	13	2	<1
December	0	0	24	2	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was May (scoring 78); on 2011–2025 it is September (80). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in APPLETON CITY’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%	15%	4%	11%	1.8–8.5°C
February	5%	17%	5%	13%	3.0–11.6°C
March	21%	22%	8%	21%	10.4–17.9°C
April	41%	27%	12%	32%	17.2–22.7°C
May	61%	30%	14%	36%	22.3–27.4°C
June	71%	28%	14%	32%	27.5–32.1°C
July	79%	21%	10%	18%	30.1–34.6°C
August	80%	20%	9%	19%	29.6–35.1°C
September	74%	22%	11%	20%	25.1–30.7°C
October	54%	21%	9%	19%	19.0–24.8°C
November	18%	17%	7%	13%	10.6–16.7°C
December	2%	16%	5%	11%	4.1–9.9°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.

1893Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 117-year average. Warmest: 1954. Coolest: 1993.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4375649
NOAA station: USC00230204 · APPLETON CITY
Station distance: 21.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 38.36°, 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 APPLETON CITY is what differs

Appleton City→Montrose→Rockville→Aaron→Copeland→Germantown→

Or put two places side by side: Ballard vs Appleton City

Best time to visitBallard.

September

August

October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Ballard runs -0.8°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Ballard.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Ballard runs -0.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.