United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Cambridge.

October leads for comfortable weather in Cambridge: typically 24.1°C by day, 9.9°C at night, with 82 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high24.1°C

Typical low9.9°C

Rain in October82 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

81climate match

Beach

September

September · June · August

72climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · November

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 19 against October’s 81 — days reach only 12.4°C, 12° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -0.2°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

1912.4° / -0.2°

Feb

3214.9° / 1.3°

Mar

4919.3° / 4.6°

Apr

7924.3° / 9.1°

May

7428.4° / 14.3°

Jun

5232° / 19.2°

Jul

4133.8° / 21.2°

Aug

4532.8° / 20.6°

Sep

6629.7° / 16.9°

Oct

8124.1° / 9.9°

Nov

5018° / 3.9°

Dec

2513.6° / 1°

Monthly climate evidence for Cambridge — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	12.4°C	-0.2°C	105 mm	9.3	10 h 07	19	Strong coverage
February	14.9°C	1.3°C	97 mm	7.9	10 h 54	32	Strong coverage
March	19.3°C	4.6°C	116 mm	8.5	11 h 52	49	Strong coverage
April	24.3°C	9.1°C	78 mm	7.3	12 h 59	79	Strong coverage
May	28.4°C	14.3°C	89 mm	6.6	13 h 55	74	Strong coverage
June	32°C	19.2°C	108 mm	7.9	14 h 25	52	Strong coverage
July	33.8°C	21.2°C	107 mm	9	14 h 13	41	Strong coverage
August	32.8°C	20.6°C	113 mm	8.1	13 h 25	45	Strong coverage
September	29.7°C	16.9°C	100 mm	6.3	12 h 21	66	Strong coverage
October	24.1°C	9.9°C	82 mm	5.6	11 h 16	81	Strong coverage
November	18°C	3.9°C	85 mm	6.6	10 h 20	50	Strong coverage
December	13.6°C	1°C	108 mm	8.7	9 h 54	25	Strong coverage

What has changed

Cambridge runs +0.5°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

+0.8

Feb

+1.5

Mar

+0.7

Apr

+0.6

May

+0.1

Jun

+0.5

Jul

+0.7

Aug

-0.1

Sep

+0.4

Oct

+0.3

Nov

-0.9

Dec

+0.9

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 23.1°C.

Records at SALUDA, 1902–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.3°C28 Jan 1944	-18.9°C22 Jan 1985	90 mm19 Jan 1936	272 mm1960 · driest 17 mm in 1928	119
February	28.9°C21 Feb 2026	-13.9°C18 Feb 1958	80 mm28 Feb 1929	268 mm1929 · driest 17 mm in 1930	121
March	33.3°C18 Mar 1945	-15.0°C3 Mar 1980	97 mm15 Mar 1964	290 mm1980 · driest 17 mm in 1910	120
April	36.7°C29 Apr 1953	-6.1°C4 Apr 1915	140 mm13 Apr 1923	309 mm1923 · driest 9 mm in 1950	122
May	39.4°C15 May 1944	0.0°C11 May 1977	83 mm23 May 2003	231 mm2026 · driest 0 mm in 1936	119
June	42.8°C30 Jun 2012	6.1°C6 Jun 1976	87 mm5 Jun 1903	286 mm2021 · driest 12 mm in 2008	122
July	42.8°C1 Jul 2012	10.0°C8 Jul 1947	76 mm31 Jul 1997	428 mm1919 · driest 11 mm in 1980	123
August	42.2°C20 Aug 1925	10.0°C23 Aug 1930	154 mm30 Aug 1964	363 mm1937 · driest 15 mm in 1953	121
September	42.8°C1 Sep 1912	1.7°C30 Sep 1967	178 mm28 Sep 2016	380 mm1959 · driest 4 mm in 1978	121
October	38.3°C5 Oct 1954	-6.1°C30 Oct 1952	197 mm4 Oct 2015	359 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1943	120
November	33.3°C2 Nov 1961	-11.1°C26 Nov 1950	101 mm11 Nov 2009	223 mm1948 · driest 5 mm in 1931	120
December	27.2°C20 Dec 1931	-17.2°C13 Dec 1962	96 mm8 Dec 1919	227 mm2019 · driest 11 mm in 1988	121

Typical days per month at SALUDA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	18	4
February	<1	0	14	3
March	6	<1	8	4
April	15	4	1	3
May	25	13	0	3
June	29	24	0	3
July	31	28	0	3
August	30	27	0	3
September	26	17	0	3
October	15	2	1	2
November	3	0	9	3
December	<1	0	16	4

How often, not how much — every day in SALUDA’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	11%	29%	12%	32%	9.8–16.1°C
February	17%	29%	14%	32%	12.3–18.3°C
March	40%	27%	13%	28%	16.4–22.6°C
April	66%	24%	10%	23%	22.2–26.8°C
May	76%	23%	10%	23%	26.7–30.9°C
June	72%	27%	12%	30%	30.0–34.1°C
July	69%	31%	13%	36%	31.4–35.4°C
August	73%	27%	12%	27%	31.0–34.2°C
September	78%	21%	9%	18%	28.0–32.0°C
October	74%	16%	7%	13%	22.7–26.4°C
November	38%	19%	8%	17%	16.4–21.1°C
December	12%	27%	11%	31%	11.3–16.5°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.

1903Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 101-year average. Warmest: 1941. Coolest: 1976.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4573202
NOAA station: USC00387631 · SALUDA
Station distance: 19.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.08°, 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 SALUDA is what differs

Saluda→Hickory Grove→Big Creek→Blacks→Bleases Crossroads→Celestia (historical)→

Or put two places side by side: Cambridge vs Saluda

Best time to visitCambridge.

October

September

October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Cambridge runs +0.5°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Cambridge.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Cambridge runs +0.5°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.