United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Lexington.

May leads for comfortable weather in Lexington: typically 24°C by day, 11.3°C at night, with 135 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high24°C

Typical low11.3°C

Rain in May135 mm

Comfort

May

May · September · June

73climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

70climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · May

80climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against May’s 73 — days reach only 3.5°C, 20° 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

53.5° / -7.2°

Feb

67.2° / -4.7°

Mar

2712.8° / -0.3°

Apr

4918.6° / 5.6°

May

7324° / 11.3°

Jun

6428.7° / 16.4°

Jul

5331° / 19°

Aug

5930.9° / 18°

Sep

7126.7° / 12.4°

Oct

6420.6° / 6.7°

Nov

2711.9° / 0.3°

Dec

55.9° / -4.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Lexington — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	3.5°C	-7.2°C	41 mm	5	9 h 41	5	Good coverage
February	7.2°C	-4.7°C	46 mm	4.7	10 h 40	6	Good coverage
March	12.8°C	-0.3°C	72 mm	6.2	11 h 50	27	Good coverage
April	18.6°C	5.6°C	108 mm	9.1	13 h 10	49	Good coverage
May	24°C	11.3°C	135 mm	9.8	14 h 18	73	Good coverage
June	28.7°C	16.4°C	128 mm	9	14 h 54	64	Good coverage
July	31°C	19°C	127 mm	7.2	14 h 40	53	Good coverage
August	30.9°C	18°C	109 mm	5.9	13 h 42	59	Good coverage
September	26.7°C	12.4°C	121 mm	6.7	12 h 24	71	Good coverage
October	20.6°C	6.7°C	84 mm	6.4	11 h 06	64	Good coverage
November	11.9°C	0.3°C	65 mm	5.3	9 h 58	27	Good coverage
December	5.9°C	-4.8°C	48 mm	5.4	9 h 25	5	Good coverage

Records at LEXINGTON 3E, 1893–2009
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	23.3°C25 Jan 1950	-29.4°C12 Jan 1912	61 mm30 Jan 1982	158 mm1916 · driest 1 mm in 1986	115
February	26.7°C25 Feb 1930	-32.2°C12 Feb 1899	58 mm9 Feb 2001	132 mm1900 · driest 0 mm in 2006	115
March	33.3°C23 Mar 1910	-22.2°C5 Mar 1960	83 mm25 Mar 1920	225 mm1973 · driest 2 mm in 1910	115
April	33.9°C30 Apr 1910	-12.2°C1 Apr 1985	88 mm22 Apr 1944	260 mm1994 · driest 16 mm in 1980	114
May	40.6°C30 May 1934	-3.9°C4 May 1907	150 mm27 May 1915	406 mm1915 · driest 16 mm in 1914	113
June	41.7°C28 Jun 1936	5.6°C5 Jun 1993	114 mm21 Jun 1947	437 mm1947 · driest 3 mm in 1936	114
July	45.0°C15 Jul 1954	9.4°C5 Jul 1997	147 mm15 Jul 1907	465 mm1893 · driest 2 mm in 1916	114
August	43.9°C10 Aug 1934	5.0°C28 Aug 1986	107 mm31 Aug 2003	277 mm1944 · driest 5 mm in 1913	112
September	41.1°C3 Sep 1947	-2.2°C26 Sep 1912	157 mm14 Sep 1998	320 mm1970 · driest 3 mm in 1956	113
October	36.1°C1 Oct 1897	-7.8°C28 Oct 1925	143 mm5 Oct 1998	270 mm1941 · driest 2 mm in 1893	113
November	31.1°C1 Nov 1950	-20.6°C8 Nov 1991	141 mm17 Nov 1928	232 mm1928 · driest 0 mm in 1954	112
December	23.3°C6 Dec 2001	-30.0°C22 Dec 1989	64 mm15 Dec 1971	144 mm1895 · driest 1 mm in 1976	114

Typical days per month at LEXINGTON 3E, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	26	1	3
February	<1	0	22	2	1
March	2	0	17	2	<1
April	6	<1	5	4	<1
May	15	3	<1	4	0
June	24	12	0	4	0
July	29	20	0	4	0
August	29	19	0	3	0
September	19	8	<1	4	0
October	8	1	3	2	0
November	<1	0	15	2	<1
December	0	0	26	2	2

How often, not how much — every day in LEXINGTON 3E’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%	16%	4%	12%	-0.8–7.5°C
February	3%	18%	5%	14%	1.5–9.7°C
March	16%	22%	8%	23%	8.4–15.9°C
April	35%	30%	11%	36%	15.9–21.7°C
May	57%	33%	13%	44%	21.9–26.8°C
June	69%	30%	13%	36%	26.7–31.7°C
July	77%	23%	10%	21%	29.8–34.9°C
August	77%	23%	9%	25%	29.1–34.1°C
September	71%	24%	11%	26%	24.7–29.6°C
October	49%	21%	9%	21%	18.0–24.0°C
November	14%	17%	6%	13%	9.1–15.2°C
December	1%	17%	5%	13%	2.0–8.9°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 103-year average. Warmest: 1931. Coolest: 1985.2008

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4395035
NOAA station: USC00234904 · LEXINGTON 3E
Station distance: 2.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 16 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 39.18°, 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 LEXINGTON 3E is what differs

Hardin→Dover Station→Greenton→Lakeview→Myrick→Rockingham→

Or put two places side by side: Lexington vs Hardin

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Best time to visit
Lexington.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.