United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
McAlester.

October leads for comfortable weather in McAlester: typically 24°C by day, 10.8°C at night, with 105 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high24°C

Typical low10.8°C

Rain in October105 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

80climate match

Beach

August

August · September · June

75climate match

Outdoors

March

March · November · April

74climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 24 against October’s 80 — days reach only 11.1°C, 13° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -1.1°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

2411.1° / -1.1°

Feb

3613.7° / 1.2°

Mar

5418.5° / 5.8°

Apr

7323° / 10.1°

May

7126.7° / 15.5°

Jun

5231.2° / 20.1°

Jul

4534.1° / 22.3°

Aug

4834° / 21.5°

Sep

6729.9° / 17.2°

Oct

8024° / 10.8°

Nov

5317.5° / 4.9°

Dec

2712.1° / 0.5°

Monthly climate evidence for McAlester — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	11.1°C	-1.1°C	52 mm	4.8	10 h 03	24	Strong coverage
February	13.7°C	1.2°C	57 mm	5.2	10 h 52	36	Strong coverage
March	18.5°C	5.8°C	86 mm	7.3	11 h 52	54	Strong coverage
April	23°C	10.1°C	119 mm	6.9	13 h 01	73	Strong coverage
May	26.7°C	15.5°C	135 mm	8.6	13 h 58	71	Strong coverage
June	31.2°C	20.1°C	113 mm	7.2	14 h 29	52	Strong coverage
July	34.1°C	22.3°C	85 mm	5.3	14 h 17	45	Strong coverage
August	34°C	21.5°C	72 mm	5.1	13 h 28	48	Strong coverage
September	29.9°C	17.2°C	91 mm	5.4	12 h 21	67	Strong coverage
October	24°C	10.8°C	105 mm	6.3	11 h 15	80	Strong coverage
November	17.5°C	4.9°C	72 mm	5.5	10 h 17	53	Strong coverage
December	12.1°C	0.5°C	74 mm	5.4	9 h 49	27	Strong coverage

What has changed

McAlester runs +1.3°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

+2.2

Feb

+1.5

Mar

+1.9

Apr

+0.2

May

+0.4

Jun

+1.2

Jul

+0.5

Aug

+0.4

Sep

+2.1

Oct

+1.0

Nov

+1.1

Dec

+2.5

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 27.4°C.

Records at MCALESTER RGNL AP, 1893–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.9°C31 Jan 1911	-25.6°C10 Jan 1977	173 mm27 Jan 1916	332 mm1916 · driest 0 mm in 1986	112
February	33.3°C22 Feb 1996	-23.8°C16 Feb 2021	80 mm16 Feb 1938	259 mm1938 · driest 0 mm in 1897	112
March	35.6°C9 Mar 1911	-16.1°C3 Mar 1943	121 mm17 Mar 1927	315 mm1945 · driest 3 mm in 1940	110
April	36.1°C18 Apr 2006	-6.1°C15 Apr 1928	166 mm22 Apr 1996	311 mm1942 · driest 5 mm in 1987	111
May	36.7°C30 May 2003	1.1°C1 May 1909	181 mm9 May 1943	584 mm2015 · driest 21 mm in 1970	111
June	42.2°C21 Jun 1936	7.2°C1 Jun 1983	147 mm4 Jun 1904	378 mm1945 · driest 2 mm in 1933	112
July	44.4°C17 Jul 1954	10.6°C6 Jul 1972	115 mm20 Jul 1953	338 mm1953 · driest 1 mm in 1999	112
August	46.7°C10 Aug 1936	10.0°C12 Aug 1931	113 mm15 Aug 1964	255 mm1915 · driest 0 mm in 1943	111
September	43.3°C3 Sep 1947	0.6°C27 Sep 1942	157 mm18 Sep 1936	318 mm1967 · driest 5 mm in 2022	110
October	37.2°C1 Oct 1953	-7.8°C31 Oct 1917	205 mm13 Oct 1981	443 mm1981 · driest 3 mm in 1934	110
November	32.2°C5 Nov 2017	-12.8°C29 Nov 1976	186 mm24 Nov 1973	277 mm1946 · driest 1 mm in 1903	111
December	28.3°C27 Dec 2025	-20.6°C23 Dec 1989	175 mm9 Dec 1946	267 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1925	110

Typical days per month at MCALESTER RGNL AP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	<1	0	19	2	1
February	1	<1	13	2	<1
March	5	<1	6	3	<1
April	12	1	<1	3	0
May	22	7	0	4	0
June	29	22	0	4	0
July	31	28	0	2	0
August	31	27	0	2	0
September	26	17	0	3	0
October	16	5	<1	3	0
November	3	<1	8	2	<1
December	<1	0	16	2	0

How often, not how much — every day in MCALESTER RGNL AP’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%	17%	6%	15%	7.0–13.8°C
February	18%	19%	7%	16%	9.6–16.9°C
March	39%	21%	9%	19%	15.1–22.3°C
April	60%	25%	12%	27%	21.3–25.0°C
May	69%	28%	13%	31%	24.7–28.2°C
June	76%	24%	13%	23%	29.2–33.0°C
July	84%	16%	7%	11%	32.0–37.0°C
August	82%	18%	8%	17%	31.6–37.3°C
September	80%	19%	9%	16%	27.8–33.0°C
October	69%	19%	9%	18%	22.1–27.4°C
November	36%	18%	8%	15%	14.8–20.5°C
December	10%	18%	7%	14%	8.7–14.5°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.

1905Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 97-year average. Warmest: 1911. Coolest: 1979.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4542367
NOAA station: USW00093950 · MCALESTER RGNL AP
Station distance: 5.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.93°, 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 MCALESTER RGNL AP is what differs

Hartshorne→Krebs→Haileyville→Kiowa→Savanna→Alderson→

Or put two places side by side: McAlester vs Hartshorne

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