United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Scranton.

October leads for comfortable weather in Scranton: typically 24.9°C by day, 11.1°C at night, with 85 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high24.9°C

Typical low11.1°C

Rain in October85 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

82climate match

Beach

May

May · June · September

70climate match

Outdoors

March

March · November · April

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 34 against October’s 82 — days reach only 14.2°C, 10° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 0.9°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

3414.2° / 0.9°

Feb

4416.3° / 2.3°

Mar

6120° / 5.2°

Apr

7925° / 9.8°

May

7628.4° / 14.8°

Jun

5131.8° / 19.7°

Jul

4133.3° / 21.6°

Aug

4432.3° / 21°

Sep

6129.8° / 17.7°

Oct

8224.9° / 11.1°

Nov

6220.1° / 4.9°

Dec

3915.8° / 2.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Scranton — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	14.2°C	0.9°C	79 mm	5.8	10 h 07	34	Strong coverage
February	16.3°C	2.3°C	75 mm	5.9	10 h 55	44	Strong coverage
March	20°C	5.2°C	77 mm	5.6	11 h 52	61	Strong coverage
April	25°C	9.8°C	80 mm	5.1	12 h 59	79	Strong coverage
May	28.4°C	14.8°C	81 mm	5.5	13 h 54	76	Strong coverage
June	31.8°C	19.7°C	109 mm	7.8	14 h 24	51	Strong coverage
July	33.3°C	21.6°C	126 mm	7.4	14 h 12	41	Strong coverage
August	32.3°C	21°C	132 mm	7.7	13 h 25	44	Strong coverage
September	29.8°C	17.7°C	126 mm	5.9	12 h 21	61	Strong coverage
October	24.9°C	11.1°C	85 mm	4.4	11 h 16	82	Strong coverage
November	20.1°C	4.9°C	74 mm	4.7	10 h 21	62	Strong coverage
December	15.8°C	2.2°C	88 mm	6.2	9 h 54	39	Strong coverage

What has changed

Scranton runs +0.8°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

+1.2

Feb

+2.3

Mar

+1.0

Apr

+0.9

May

+0.6

Jun

+1.5

Jul

+0.9

Aug

-0.1

Sep

+0.4

Oct

+0.3

Nov

-0.7

Dec

+1.6

October daytime highs, 2011–2022. Last recorded: 24.3°C.

Records at LAKE CITY 2 SE, 1937–2023
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	27.2°C13 Jan 2013	-16.7°C22 Jan 1985	91 mm24 Jan 1999	199 mm1995 · driest 9 mm in 1965	83
February	29.4°C25 Feb 2023	-15.0°C13 Feb 1973	94 mm17 Feb 1998	204 mm1965 · driest 6 mm in 1947	83
March	33.3°C18 Mar 1945	-12.2°C3 Mar 1980	165 mm18 Mar 1983	341 mm1983 · driest 10 mm in 2002	83
April	34.4°C25 Apr 1960	-3.3°C20 Apr 1983	91 mm16 Apr 2018	193 mm2018 · driest 0 mm in 2001	81
May	38.9°C22 May 1938	1.7°C8 May 1989	152 mm16 May 2014	233 mm1972 · driest 3 mm in 1951	80
June	41.1°C27 Jun 1954	7.8°C1 Jun 1984	112 mm4 Jun 1940	263 mm1941 · driest 18 mm in 1948	79
July	40.6°C20 Jul 1986	11.7°C2 Jul 1988	107 mm29 Jul 1960	345 mm1960 · driest 5 mm in 1999	79
August	41.1°C17 Aug 1954	11.7°C12 Aug 2008	137 mm20 Aug 1986	349 mm1990 · driest 26 mm in 1938	78
September	39.4°C4 Sep 1944	5.6°C25 Sep 1981	208 mm5 Sep 1979	524 mm1979 · driest 0 mm in 1937	80
October	38.3°C5 Oct 1954	-3.3°C30 Oct 1976	185 mm11 Oct 1990	306 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 2000	79
November	31.7°C1 Nov 1961	-8.3°C25 Nov 1950	74 mm27 Nov 2013	195 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 1999	80
December	28.3°C8 Dec 1998	-14.4°C25 Dec 1989	164 mm23 Dec 1994	280 mm1994 · driest 10 mm in 2002	81

Typical days per month at LAKE CITY 2 SE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	14	3
February	2	0	9	2
March	6	<1	5	3
April	15	4	<1	3
May	23	12	0	2
June	27	21	0	3
July	28	26	0	4
August	28	24	0	4
September	25	15	0	3
October	16	4	<1	2
November	6	<1	6	2
December	2	0	11	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was April (scoring 84); on 2011–2025 it is October (83). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in LAKE CITY 2 SE’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	16%	23%	9%	22%	10.6–17.6°C
February	23%	24%	11%	24%	12.3–19.8°C
March	43%	23%	11%	19%	16.6–22.9°C
April	71%	19%	9%	16%	22.8–27.0°C
May	77%	21%	9%	20%	26.8–30.5°C
June	74%	25%	13%	28%	29.9–33.8°C
July	69%	30%	15%	37%	31.6–34.7°C
August	72%	28%	14%	31%	30.7–33.9°C
September	78%	21%	10%	20%	28.0–32.0°C
October	77%	14%	6%	9%	23.3–26.8°C
November	48%	17%	7%	13%	18.1–22.4°C
December	19%	21%	9%	20%	12.6–18.7°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.

1938Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 64-year average. Warmest: 2017. Coolest: 1988.2018

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4595216
NOAA station: USC00384886 · LAKE CITY 2 SE
Station distance: 6.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 33.92°, 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 LAKE CITY 2 SE is what differs

Lake City→Pamplico→Coward→Salem→Bartell Crossroads→Bass Crossroads→

Or put two places side by side: Scranton vs Lake City

Best time to visitScranton.

October

May

March

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Scranton runs +0.8°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Scranton.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Scranton runs +0.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.