United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Gulf.

October leads for comfortable weather in Gulf: typically 23.3°C by day, 9.1°C at night, with 89 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high23.3°C

Typical low9.1°C

Rain in October89 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

78climate match

Beach

June

June · August · September

66climate match

Outdoors

October

October · March · April

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 20 against October’s 78 — days reach only 12°C, 12° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -1°C.

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

2012° / -1°

Feb

3214.4° / 0.1°

Mar

5018.9° / 3.5°

Apr

7624.2° / 8.1°

May

7427.4° / 13.1°

Jun

5730.9° / 17.7°

Jul

4332.6° / 20.2°

Aug

5131.4° / 19.2°

Sep

6928.4° / 16°

Oct

7823.3° / 9.1°

Nov

4817.6° / 3.4°

Dec

2913.2° / 0.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Gulf — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	12°C	-1°C	90 mm	7.4	10 h	20	Strong coverage
February	14.4°C	0.1°C	76 mm	6.8	10 h 50	32	Strong coverage
March	18.9°C	3.5°C	93 mm	7.8	11 h 52	50	Strong coverage
April	24.2°C	8.1°C	86 mm	7	13 h 02	76	Strong coverage
May	27.4°C	13.1°C	88 mm	7.1	14 h 01	74	Strong coverage
June	30.9°C	17.7°C	119 mm	7.1	14 h 33	57	Strong coverage
July	32.6°C	20.2°C	134 mm	8.5	14 h 20	43	Strong coverage
August	31.4°C	19.2°C	123 mm	8.3	13 h 30	51	Strong coverage
September	28.4°C	16°C	120 mm	6.1	12 h 21	69	Strong coverage
October	23.3°C	9.1°C	89 mm	5.5	11 h 13	78	Strong coverage
November	17.6°C	3.4°C	87 mm	6.1	10 h 14	48	Strong coverage
December	13.2°C	0.5°C	79 mm	6.6	9 h 46	29	Strong coverage

What has changed

Gulf runs +0.2°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

+0.9

Feb

+1.5

Mar

+0.5

Apr

+0.3

May

-0.3

Jun

-0.3

Jul

0.0

Aug

-0.8

Sep

-0.4

Oct

+0.1

Nov

-0.8

Dec

+1.2

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 22.3°C.

Records at SANFORD 8 NE, 1972–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.7°C30 Jan 2002	-19.4°C21 Jan 1985	73 mm18 Jan 2000	243 mm2000 · driest 18 mm in 2025	54
February	28.3°C17 Feb 1976	-17.8°C5 Feb 1996	85 mm2 Feb 1973	180 mm1984 · driest 20 mm in 1991	54
March	32.8°C12 Mar 2006	-12.2°C27 Mar 1992	67 mm7 Mar 2014	202 mm1977 · driest 15 mm in 2021	54
April	33.9°C18 Apr 1976	-7.2°C6 Apr 1992	115 mm16 Apr 2018	237 mm2023 · driest 8 mm in 1976	54
May	35.6°C31 May 1991	-1.7°C4 May 1986	94 mm14 May 1979	204 mm2020 · driest 29 mm in 2019	54
June	39.4°C29 Jun 2012	1.7°C4 Jun 1988	155 mm14 Jun 2006	382 mm1995 · driest 11 mm in 1993	53
July	40.6°C8 Jul 1977	5.0°C2 Jul 1988	89 mm24 Jul 1997	294 mm1984 · driest 26 mm in 1983	52
August	41.7°C18 Aug 1988	5.6°C31 Aug 1976	111 mm13 Aug 1986	324 mm2004 · driest 7 mm in 2007	53
September	37.8°C7 Sep 1990	1.1°C25 Sep 1990	156 mm16 Sep 1999	432 mm1999 · driest 7 mm in 1985	53
October	36.1°C3 Oct 2019	-7.2°C23 Oct 1987	194 mm8 Oct 2016	234 mm1995 · driest 3 mm in 2000	53
November	31.1°C2 Nov 1974	-11.7°C27 Nov 1991	107 mm13 Nov 2018	223 mm1992 · driest 10 mm in 1973	54
December	26.7°C8 Dec 1998	-16.7°C25 Dec 1983	56 mm29 Dec 2013	220 mm2023 · driest 16 mm in 1988	52

Typical days per month at SANFORD 8 NE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	<1	0	19	3	<1
February	<1	0	16	3	<1
March	6	<1	11	3	0
April	15	3	2	3	0
May	24	10	0	3	0
June	28	20	0	3	0
July	30	26	0	4	0
August	30	23	0	4	0
September	25	11	0	3	0
October	13	1	2	2	0
November	2	<1	12	3	<1
December	<1	0	17	3	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was April (scoring 80); on 2011–2025 it is October (83). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in SANFORD 8 NE’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%	25%	11%	26%	9.0–14.9°C
February	17%	26%	11%	28%	11.4–16.8°C
March	38%	26%	11%	27%	16.5–22.2°C
April	66%	23%	8%	23%	22.4–26.2°C
May	73%	25%	11%	29%	25.8–29.2°C
June	76%	24%	11%	28%	29.1–33.2°C
July	72%	28%	13%	33%	30.6–34.2°C
August	73%	27%	13%	29%	29.7–33.4°C
September	79%	21%	11%	21%	27.0–30.6°C
October	68%	17%	7%	15%	21.5–25.3°C
November	33%	21%	9%	18%	15.3–20.6°C
December	11%	23%	10%	24%	10.2–15.8°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.

1973Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 50-year average. Warmest: 1990. Coolest: 1988.2023

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4469407
NOAA station: USC00317656 · SANFORD 8 NE
Station distance: 21.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.56°, 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.

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October

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October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Gulf runs +0.2°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Gulf.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Gulf runs +0.2°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.