United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Ocean City.

September leads for comfortable weather in Ocean City: typically 25.4°C by day, 16.8°C at night, with 98 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high25.4°C

Typical low16.8°C

Rain in September98 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · May

81climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

84climate match

Outdoors

October

October · May · April

83climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 81 — days reach only 5.2°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

55.2° / -3.1°

Feb

56.3° / -2.2°

Mar

1610.5° / 1.5°

Apr

4515.3° / 6.6°

May

7320.9° / 12°

Jun

7626.6° / 17.6°

Jul

6129.4° / 20.5°

Aug

6328.9° / 20.3°

Sep

8125.4° / 16.8°

Oct

6519.5° / 10.4°

Nov

3613.3° / 4.8°

Dec

98.4° / 0.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Ocean City — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 18 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	5.2°C	-3.1°C	81 mm	8	5.5°C	9 h 41	5	Good coverage
February	6.3°C	-2.2°C	71 mm	7.3	3.9°C	10 h 39	5	Good coverage
March	10.5°C	1.5°C	105 mm	8.4	5.2°C	11 h 50	16	Good coverage
April	15.3°C	6.6°C	83 mm	8.5	8.7°C	13 h 11	45	Good coverage
May	20.9°C	12°C	80 mm	8.3	13.6°C	14 h 18	73	Good coverage
June	26.6°C	17.6°C	83 mm	7.8	19.3°C	14 h 55	76	Good coverage
July	29.4°C	20.5°C	92 mm	6.8	23.0°C	14 h 41	61	Good coverage
August	28.9°C	20.3°C	92 mm	6.2	23.9°C	13 h 42	63	Good coverage
September	25.4°C	16.8°C	98 mm	6.1	22.4°C	12 h 24	81	Good coverage
October	19.5°C	10.4°C	93 mm	7	18.3°C	11 h 06	65	Good coverage
November	13.3°C	4.8°C	85 mm	6.5	13.3°C	9 h 58	36	Good coverage
December	8.4°C	0.3°C	100 mm	7.4	8.9°C	9 h 25	9	Good coverage

Records at MARGATE, 1998–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	21.1°C7 Jan 2007	-16.1°C23 Jan 2014	59 mm10 Jan 2024	164 mm2024 · driest 23 mm in 2013	28
February	20.6°C24 Feb 2022	-16.7°C16 Feb 2015	51 mm23 Feb 2026	167 mm2018 · driest 17 mm in 2009	28
March	28.3°C28 Mar 2007	-16.1°C7 Mar 2015	80 mm22 Mar 2000	198 mm2024 · driest 5 mm in 2006	28
April	32.2°C8 Apr 2010	-2.2°C5 Apr 2004	81 mm29 Apr 2023	150 mm2004 · driest 21 mm in 2001	28
May	34.4°C23 May 2021	2.8°C9 May 2020	56 mm14 May 2017	207 mm2017 · driest 16 mm in 2015	28
June	37.8°C25 Jun 2025	7.8°C2 Jun 2003	74 mm18 Jun 2001	222 mm2013 · driest 16 mm in 1999	28
July	38.9°C7 Jul 1999	12.8°C3 Jul 2001	83 mm29 Jul 2017	197 mm2020 · driest 2 mm in 2002	28
August	39.4°C2 Aug 2006	11.7°C7 Aug 2004	111 mm18 Aug 2010	240 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 1999	27
September	35.0°C7 Sep 2023	7.2°C27 Sep 2000	119 mm2 Sep 2006	202 mm2018 · driest 7 mm in 2005	27
October	32.8°C3 Oct 2019	0.0°C30 Oct 2008	86 mm30 Oct 2020	205 mm2022 · driest 1 mm in 2000	28
November	27.8°C8 Nov 2022	-7.2°C23 Nov 2018	63 mm17 Nov 2002	224 mm2018 · driest 20 mm in 2016	28
December	21.1°C2 Dec 1998	-13.3°C24 Dec 2022	85 mm12 Dec 2008	197 mm2009 · driest 6 mm in 2006	28

Typical days per month at MARGATE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	19	3	2
February	0	0	16	2	2
March	<1	0	10	4	<1
April	<1	0	<1	2	<1
May	6	1	0	3	0
June	17	5	0	3	0
July	26	13	0	3	0
August	25	10	0	3	0
September	15	2	0	3	0
October	3	<1	0	3	0
November	0	0	4	3	0
December	0	0	13	4	<1

How often, not how much — every day in MARGATE’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%	25%	8%	28%	2.9–9.0°C
February	<1%	27%	9%	38%	2.9–9.4°C
March	3%	28%	12%	31%	7.8–12.9°C
April	16%	28%	10%	30%	13.6–17.8°C
May	47%	28%	9%	32%	18.6–22.5°C
June	69%	26%	9%	28%	24.9–27.8°C
July	75%	23%	9%	25%	27.9–30.8°C
August	75%	21%	9%	22%	27.4–30.6°C
September	74%	20%	9%	17%	24.2–26.6°C
October	39%	22%	10%	21%	18.2–21.8°C
November	6%	21%	9%	21%	11.1–15.5°C
December	<1%	25%	11%	29%	6.4–10.9°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.

2000Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 21-year average. Warmest: 2020. Coolest: 2003.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4503351
NOAA station: USC00285243 · MARGATE
Station distance: 9.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 21 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 39.28°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 18 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
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 MARGATE is what differs

Pleasantville→Somers Point→Ventnor City→Northfield→Linwood→Margate City→

Or put two places side by side: Ocean City vs Pleasantville

Best time to visitOcean City.