United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Smithfield.

October leads for comfortable weather in Smithfield: typically 22.8°C by day, 9.3°C at night, with 83 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high22.8°C

Typical low9.3°C

Rain in October83 mm

Comfort

October

October · May · April

76climate match

Beach

August

August · June · September

66climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · November

78climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 17 against October’s 76 — days reach only 11.4°C, 13° 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

1711.4° / -1°

Feb

2713.3° / 0.1°

Mar

4217.4° / 3.3°

Apr

7122.8° / 7.8°

May

7226.6° / 12.8°

Jun

5530.7° / 18.2°

Jul

4032.5° / 20.7°

Aug

4831.2° / 19.7°

Sep

6628.1° / 16.6°

Oct

7622.8° / 9.3°

Nov

4617.4° / 3.3°

Dec

2613.1° / 0.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Smithfield — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	11.4°C	-1°C	89 mm	8.6	10 h	17	Strong coverage
February	13.3°C	0.1°C	83 mm	8	10 h 50	27	Strong coverage
March	17.4°C	3.3°C	105 mm	9	11 h 52	42	Strong coverage
April	22.8°C	7.8°C	93 mm	7.7	13 h 02	71	Strong coverage
May	26.6°C	12.8°C	108 mm	9	14 h 01	72	Strong coverage
June	30.7°C	18.2°C	121 mm	9.2	14 h 33	55	Strong coverage
July	32.5°C	20.7°C	145 mm	10	14 h 20	40	Strong coverage
August	31.2°C	19.7°C	135 mm	9	13 h 30	48	Strong coverage
September	28.1°C	16.6°C	131 mm	7.3	12 h 21	66	Strong coverage
October	22.8°C	9.3°C	83 mm	6.4	11 h 13	76	Strong coverage
November	17.4°C	3.3°C	85 mm	7.1	10 h 15	46	Strong coverage
December	13.1°C	0.5°C	87 mm	8.5	9 h 46	26	Strong coverage

What has changed

Smithfield 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

+0.3

Feb

+0.7

Mar

-0.3

Apr

0.0

May

-0.2

Jun

+0.8

Jul

+1.2

Aug

-0.1

Sep

-0.1

Oct

+0.1

Nov

-0.7

Dec

+1.0

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 22.0°C.

Records at SMITHFIELD, 1892–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	27.8°C14 Jan 1932	-20.6°C20 Jan 1893	76 mm17 Jan 1946	196 mm1987 · driest 22 mm in 1927	115
February	28.9°C25 Feb 1930	-17.8°C1 Feb 1936	81 mm6 Feb 2020	216 mm2014 · driest 13 mm in 1968	113
March	32.2°C17 Mar 1945	-12.8°C1 Mar 1937	84 mm15 Mar 1964	229 mm1944 · driest 25 mm in 2021	115
April	36.1°C14 Apr 1916	-7.8°C8 Apr 2002	117 mm24 Apr 2017	237 mm1959 · driest 9 mm in 2022	115
May	38.9°C28 May 2019	-1.1°C14 May 2021	163 mm28 May 1981	233 mm1984 · driest 9 mm in 1920	116
June	40.6°C26 Jun 1952	2.8°C7 Jun 2002	130 mm30 Jun 1949	378 mm1995 · driest 26 mm in 1990	115
July	41.1°C22 Jul 1952	7.8°C1 Jul 2001	221 mm28 Jul 1982	393 mm1982 · driest 31 mm in 1953	117
August	40.6°C22 Aug 1983	6.7°C5 Aug 2001	158 mm31 Aug 2020	350 mm2020 · driest 24 mm in 2007	116
September	41.1°C6 Sep 1954	2.8°C24 Sep 1982	226 mm16 Sep 1999	461 mm1999 · driest 0 mm in 1968	115
October	37.8°C4 Oct 1954	-9.4°C30 Oct 2001	147 mm5 Oct 1964	357 mm1964 · driest 0 mm in 2000	116
November	31.7°C1 Nov 1919	-11.1°C30 Nov 1929	83 mm7 Nov 1963	217 mm2006 · driest 3 mm in 1931	116
December	27.2°C9 Dec 1998	-18.3°C25 Dec 1989	81 mm4 Dec 1931	186 mm1983 · driest 10 mm in 1965	114

Typical days per month at SMITHFIELD, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	19	3
February	1	0	15	3
March	4	<1	9	4
April	12	2	2	3
May	21	8	0	3
June	28	19	0	4
July	30	25	0	4
August	30	22	0	4
September	24	11	0	3
October	11	2	1	2
November	2	0	9	3
December	<1	0	16	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was April (scoring 80); on 2011–2025 it is October (84). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in SMITHFIELD’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	10%	28%	11%	31%	8.8–15.2°C
February	14%	30%	12%	34%	10.6–16.7°C
March	32%	29%	12%	30%	15.2–21.3°C
April	60%	25%	10%	23%	21.5–25.9°C
May	70%	27%	11%	29%	25.3–29.3°C
June	72%	28%	13%	32%	29.3–32.7°C
July	67%	33%	15%	41%	30.7–34.4°C
August	71%	30%	14%	31%	30.0–33.3°C
September	76%	23%	11%	22%	26.6–31.0°C
October	67%	19%	8%	16%	21.6–25.6°C
November	33%	22%	9%	18%	15.8–20.5°C
December	11%	27%	10%	29%	10.6–16.0°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 107-year average. Warmest: 1921. Coolest: 1917.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4492168
NOAA station: USC00317994 · SMITHFIELD
Station distance: 1.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.51°, 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 SMITHFIELD is what differs

Selma→Wilsons Mills→Four Oaks→Pine Level→Micro→West Smithfield→

Or put two places side by side: Smithfield vs Selma

Best time to visitSmithfield.

October

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October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

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

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Smithfield.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

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

Nearby, measured,
and named.