United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Dover.

October leads for comfortable weather in Dover: typically 23.1°C by day, 9.4°C at night, with 78 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high23.1°C

Typical low9.4°C

Rain in October78 mm

Comfort

October

October · September · May

79climate match

Beach

September

September · August · July

74climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · November

79climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 17 against October’s 79 — days reach only 9.3°C, 15° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -3.8°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

179.3° / -3.8°

Feb

3012.2° / -1.7°

Mar

4717° / 2.5°

Apr

6922.2° / 7.5°

May

7026.8° / 13.8°

Jun

5331.4° / 18.9°

Jul

4334.6° / 21.6°

Aug

4434.3° / 20.9°

Sep

7229.4° / 16°

Oct

7923.1° / 9.4°

Nov

4815.9° / 2.5°

Dec

2210.3° / -2.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Dover — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	9.3°C	-3.8°C	29 mm	3.2	9 h 58	17	Good coverage
February	12.2°C	-1.7°C	36 mm	3.9	10 h 49	30	Good coverage
March	17°C	2.5°C	67 mm	5.9	11 h 51	47	Good coverage
April	22.2°C	7.5°C	95 mm	6.2	13 h 03	69	Good coverage
May	26.8°C	13.8°C	135 mm	7.8	14 h 03	70	Good coverage
June	31.4°C	18.9°C	124 mm	7.1	14 h 35	53	Good coverage
July	34.6°C	21.6°C	91 mm	5.3	14 h 23	43	Good coverage
August	34.3°C	20.9°C	98 mm	5.9	13 h 31	44	Good coverage
September	29.4°C	16°C	83 mm	5.4	12 h 22	72	Good coverage
October	23.1°C	9.4°C	78 mm	5.1	11 h 13	79	Good coverage
November	15.9°C	2.5°C	51 mm	4	10 h 13	48	Good coverage
December	10.3°C	-2.4°C	43 mm	3.9	9 h 44	22	Good coverage

Records at KINGFISHER, 1897–2010
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	29.4°C31 Jan 1911	-26.7°C18 Jan 1930	57 mm17 Jan 2004	130 mm1949 · driest 0 mm in 2003	112
February	33.9°C23 Feb 1918	-28.9°C10 Feb 1929	102 mm9 Feb 1898	114 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 2006	111
March	37.8°C19 Mar 1907	-19.4°C3 Mar 1960	119 mm5 Mar 2004	210 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 1936	112
April	39.4°C12 Apr 1972	-9.4°C3 Apr 1936	105 mm27 Apr 1897	246 mm1994 · driest 1 mm in 1987	113
May	40.6°C30 May 1985	-2.2°C1 May 1903	126 mm23 May 1908	345 mm1902 · driest 5 mm in 1988	113
June	45.0°C14 Jun 1953	7.2°C4 Jun 1954	114 mm23 Jun 1963	426 mm2007 · driest 8 mm in 1943	112
July	46.1°C14 Jul 1954	7.8°C4 Jul 1997	114 mm31 Jul 2007	231 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1980	113
August	47.8°C11 Aug 1936	6.7°C31 Aug 1915	135 mm30 Aug 1926	285 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1913	112
September	43.3°C2 Sep 1939	-1.7°C26 Sep 1912	187 mm13 Sep 1961	269 mm1961 · driest 1 mm in 2000	112
October	38.3°C3 Oct 1898	-11.1°C30 Oct 1917	135 mm3 Oct 1955	264 mm1955 · driest 0 mm in 1952	110
November	32.2°C9 Nov 1899	-14.4°C3 Nov 1991	130 mm20 Nov 1994	171 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 2005	111
December	31.1°C24 Dec 1955	-25.6°C23 Dec 1989	58 mm9 Dec 1911	111 mm1932 · driest 0 mm in 1929	111

Typical days per month at KINGFISHER, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	<1	0	25	1	<1
February	1	<1	18	<1	<1
March	4	<1	10	2	<1
April	11	2	2	3	0
May	21	9	0	4	0
June	28	21	0	4	0
July	31	28	0	2	0
August	30	27	0	3	0
September	25	14	0	3	0
October	13	4	1	3	0
November	3	<1	11	2	<1
December	0	0	22	2	<1

How often, not how much — every day in KINGFISHER’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	7%	10%	3%	5%	5.9–13.3°C
February	17%	13%	4%	8%	8.0–16.1°C
March	38%	16%	6%	12%	13.7–21.6°C
April	62%	19%	9%	17%	20.5–25.9°C
May	72%	25%	12%	28%	24.8–29.2°C
June	77%	23%	11%	21%	29.8–34.5°C
July	84%	16%	7%	11%	32.9–37.8°C
August	83%	18%	8%	16%	32.2–38.2°C
September	81%	18%	8%	14%	28.0–33.8°C
October	70%	16%	7%	14%	21.4–27.2°C
November	33%	12%	5%	8%	13.4–19.6°C
December	7%	11%	4%	7%	7.6–13.3°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.

1898Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 103-year average. Warmest: 1954. Coolest: 1979.2009

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4535223
NOAA station: USC00344861 · KINGFISHER
Station distance: 13.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 18 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.98°, 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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Dover.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

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and named.