United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Alligator.

October leads for comfortable weather in Alligator: typically 24.4°C by day, 11.2°C at night, with 116 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high24.4°C

Typical low11.2°C

Rain in October116 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

78climate match

Beach

August

August · September · June

79climate match

Outdoors

October

October · November · March

67climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 10 against October’s 78 — days reach only 10.2°C, 14° 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

1010.2° / 0.2°

Feb

2612.9° / 2°

Mar

4417.7° / 6°

Apr

6722.9° / 11°

May

6727.4° / 16.3°

Jun

5431.3° / 20.6°

Jul

4732.4° / 22.1°

Aug

5332.5° / 21.3°

Sep

6730° / 17.7°

Oct

7824.4° / 11.2°

Nov

4717.2° / 5.3°

Dec

1811.9° / 1.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Alligator — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	10.2°C	0.2°C	131 mm	8	10 h 07	10	Strong coverage
February	12.9°C	2°C	110 mm	7.2	10 h 54	26	Strong coverage
March	17.7°C	6°C	135 mm	8.5	11 h 52	44	Strong coverage
April	22.9°C	11°C	162 mm	8.3	12 h 59	67	Strong coverage
May	27.4°C	16.3°C	139 mm	8.6	13 h 55	67	Strong coverage
June	31.3°C	20.6°C	97 mm	6.3	14 h 25	54	Strong coverage
July	32.4°C	22.1°C	105 mm	6.4	14 h 13	47	Strong coverage
August	32.5°C	21.3°C	73 mm	5.8	13 h 25	53	Strong coverage
September	30°C	17.7°C	81 mm	4.8	12 h 21	67	Strong coverage
October	24.4°C	11.2°C	116 mm	5.8	11 h 16	78	Strong coverage
November	17.2°C	5.3°C	103 mm	6.5	10 h 20	47	Strong coverage
December	11.9°C	1.7°C	137 mm	7.8	9 h 53	18	Strong coverage

What has changed

Alligator runs +1.0°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

+1.9

Feb

+2.4

Mar

+1.9

Apr

+0.6

May

+0.2

Jun

0.0

Jul

-0.5

Aug

+0.4

Sep

+1.5

Oct

+1.7

Nov

+0.7

Dec

+1.8

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 26.5°C.

Records at CLARKSDALE, 1892–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.7°C30 Jan 1975	-22.2°C12 Jan 1918	109 mm21 Jan 1999	416 mm1999 · driest 15 mm in 2019	118
February	28.9°C26 Feb 1917	-17.8°C2 Feb 1951	147 mm10 Feb 1966	318 mm1990 · driest 6 mm in 2021	118
March	31.7°C18 Mar 1908	-10.6°C3 Mar 1943	117 mm10 Mar 1992	321 mm1912 · driest 13 mm in 1918	119
April	34.4°C30 Apr 1894	-1.7°C1 Apr 1924	179 mm4 Apr 1911	456 mm1991 · driest 9 mm in 1925	120
May	38.3°C31 May 1934	1.1°C5 May 2005	167 mm3 May 2008	363 mm1953 · driest 6 mm in 1911	122
June	41.7°C20 Jun 1936	8.9°C16 Jun 1917	151 mm24 Jun 1980	320 mm1989 · driest 0 mm in 1914	120
July	42.2°C29 Jul 1930	11.1°C15 Jul 1926	144 mm16 Jul 1989	339 mm1989 · driest 12 mm in 1935	122
August	42.8°C8 Aug 1935	11.1°C26 Aug 1917	131 mm2 Aug 1911	334 mm1911 · driest 0 mm in 2000	118
September	41.7°C6 Sep 1925	2.2°C30 Sep 1916	108 mm21 Sep 2013	222 mm1958 · driest 0 mm in 2020	119
October	36.1°C4 Oct 2019	-3.3°C24 Oct 1917	244 mm11 Oct 2001	320 mm1984 · driest 0 mm in 1924	117
November	33.9°C17 Nov 1909	-10.6°C25 Nov 1950	191 mm15 Nov 2006	319 mm1948 · driest 11 mm in 2017	119
December	27.2°C3 Dec 1982	-18.9°C24 Dec 1989	127 mm25 Dec 2015	406 mm1982 · driest 13 mm in 1980	118

Typical days per month at CLARKSDALE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	15	4
February	<1	0	11	4
March	3	<1	4	4
April	12	<1	<1	4
May	22	10	0	4
June	28	22	0	3
July	30	26	0	3
August	30	25	0	2
September	26	17	0	2
October	16	5	<1	3
November	2	0	5	3
December	<1	0	12	4

How often, not how much — every day in CLARKSDALE’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	8%	27%	13%	29%	7.6–14.7°C
February	14%	27%	14%	30%	9.3–17.2°C
March	33%	29%	14%	31%	14.6–22.1°C
April	59%	26%	14%	28%	21.5–26.1°C
May	72%	26%	13%	28%	25.7–30.7°C
June	77%	23%	11%	24%	30.1–34.5°C
July	78%	22%	10%	20%	31.5–35.4°C
August	81%	19%	8%	18%	31.0–35.7°C
September	82%	17%	8%	12%	28.2–33.3°C
October	71%	17%	8%	15%	22.6–27.8°C
November	31%	23%	12%	24%	15.2–20.4°C
December	9%	26%	13%	30%	9.8–15.8°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 105-year average. Warmest: 1938. Coolest: 1979.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4416115
NOAA station: USC00221707 · CLARKSDALE
Station distance: 18.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.09°, 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 CLARKSDALE is what differs

Clarksdale→Tutwiler→Jonestown→Duncan→Lyon→Farrell→

Or put two places side by side: Alligator vs Clarksdale

Best time to visitAlligator.

October

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October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Alligator runs +1.0°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Alligator.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Alligator runs +1.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.