United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Oxford.

May leads for comfortable weather in Oxford: typically 23.4°C by day, 9.7°C at night, with 90 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high23.4°C

Typical low9.7°C

Rain in May90 mm

Comfort

May

May · September · June

75climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

67climate match

Outdoors

May

May · October · April

72climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against May’s 75 — days reach only 4.6°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

54.6° / -5.9°

Feb

56.3° / -5.5°

Mar

1311.2° / -1.3°

Apr

4718.2° / 3.8°

May

7523.4° / 9.7°

Jun

7127.8° / 14.7°

Jul

5930.1° / 17.4°

Aug

6429.1° / 16.4°

Sep

7425.3° / 12.4°

Oct

5318.8° / 6°

Nov

2512.6° / 0.2°

Dec

57° / -3.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Oxford — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	4.6°C	-5.9°C	86 mm	8.7	9 h 38	5	Strong coverage
February	6.3°C	-5.5°C	73 mm	7.8	10 h 38	5	Strong coverage
March	11.2°C	-1.3°C	108 mm	9	11 h 49	13	Strong coverage
April	18.2°C	3.8°C	96 mm	8.6	13 h 12	47	Strong coverage
May	23.4°C	9.7°C	90 mm	9.7	14 h 21	75	Strong coverage
June	27.8°C	14.7°C	113 mm	8.6	14 h 58	71	Strong coverage
July	30.1°C	17.4°C	115 mm	8.6	14 h 43	59	Strong coverage
August	29.1°C	16.4°C	120 mm	8.3	13 h 44	64	Strong coverage
September	25.3°C	12.4°C	131 mm	7.3	12 h 24	74	Strong coverage
October	18.8°C	6°C	105 mm	7.4	11 h 05	53	Strong coverage
November	12.6°C	0.2°C	87 mm	7	9 h 56	25	Strong coverage
December	7°C	-3.4°C	105 mm	8.6	9 h 22	5	Strong coverage

Records at OCTORARO LAKE, 1978–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	22.2°C29 Jan 2002	-28.3°C22 Jan 1984	80 mm9 Jan 2024	284 mm1979 · driest 11 mm in 1981	48
February	25.6°C21 Feb 2018	-27.2°C5 Feb 1996	69 mm17 Feb 2003	154 mm2018 · driest 15 mm in 2002	49
March	32.8°C30 Mar 1998	-20.0°C10 Mar 1984	100 mm22 Mar 2000	176 mm1994 · driest 9 mm in 2006	48
April	35.0°C17 Apr 2002	-12.2°C18 Apr 2001	125 mm30 Apr 2014	221 mm2014 · driest 26 mm in 1995	48
May	35.0°C8 May 2000	-5.0°C16 May 2002	64 mm30 May 1990	207 mm1989 · driest 11 mm in 2023	49
June	37.2°C15 Jun 1994	1.1°C4 Jun 1993	97 mm15 Jun 2004	347 mm2006 · driest 15 mm in 1995	46
July	39.4°C15 Jul 1995	5.6°C8 Jul 2000	89 mm3 Jul 1978	266 mm1989 · driest 27 mm in 1983	48
August	40.0°C9 Aug 2001	2.2°C29 Aug 1982	128 mm4 Aug 2020	302 mm2011 · driest 36 mm in 2008	47
September	36.1°C10 Sep 1983	-0.6°C18 Sep 1990	173 mm17 Sep 1999	360 mm1999 · driest 14 mm in 2007	46
October	33.3°C2 Oct 2019	-11.1°C29 Oct 2001	133 mm8 Oct 2005	260 mm2005 · driest 1 mm in 2024	48
November	27.2°C6 Nov 2024	-11.7°C18 Nov 1997	80 mm9 Nov 1996	204 mm2018 · driest 24 mm in 2001	46
December	23.9°C7 Dec 1998	-20.0°C27 Dec 1989	89 mm13 Dec 1983	228 mm1983 · driest 13 mm in 1980	48

Typical days per month at OCTORARO LAKE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	26	3	2
February	0	0	25	2	2
March	<1	0	18	3	1
April	4	<1	7	3	<1
May	12	3	1	3	0
June	24	10	0	4	0
July	29	17	0	4	0
August	28	13	0	3	0
September	16	5	0	3	0
October	4	<1	5	3	0
November	<1	0	17	3	<1
December	0	0	25	4	1

How often, not how much — every day in OCTORARO LAKE’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%	28%	9%	30%	1.0–7.8°C
February	1%	27%	8%	31%	2.1–9.9°C
March	9%	28%	11%	33%	8.1–14.5°C
April	29%	30%	11%	35%	16.3–20.2°C
May	57%	33%	11%	43%	20.8–25.6°C
June	71%	28%	11%	32%	25.9–30.0°C
July	72%	28%	12%	29%	27.8–32.4°C
August	73%	27%	11%	29%	27.4–31.7°C
September	71%	24%	11%	26%	23.9–27.0°C
October	37%	23%	10%	22%	16.8–21.7°C
November	8%	24%	10%	24%	10.1–15.1°C
December	1%	27%	11%	30%	4.0–10.1°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.

1983Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 38-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1992.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4560185
NOAA station: USC00366508 · OCTORARO LAKE
Station distance: 5.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 39.79°, 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 OCTORARO LAKE is what differs

Quarryville→Wakefield→Kirkwood→Little Britain→Bay View→Blake→

Or put two places side by side: Oxford vs Quarryville

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May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Oxford.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.