United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Ashland.

September leads for comfortable weather in Ashland: typically 28.4°C by day, 13.8°C at night, with 113 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high28.4°C

Typical low13.8°C

Rain in September113 mm

Comfort

September

September · October · May

69climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

66climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · November

69climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 69 — days reach only 9.4°C, 15° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -3°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

59.4° / -3°

Feb

911.9° / -1.5°

Mar

3116.6° / 1.9°

Apr

5822.1° / 6.3°

May

6625.9° / 11.7°

Jun

5929.6° / 16.6°

Jul

5031.3° / 18.7°

Aug

5631.2° / 17.8°

Sep

6928.4° / 13.8°

Oct

6922.9° / 6.8°

Nov

3516.2° / 1.3°

Dec

511.1° / -1.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Ashland — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	9.4°C	-3°C	128 mm	8.7	10 h 00	5	Strong coverage
February	11.9°C	-1.5°C	147 mm	8.8	10 h 51	9	Strong coverage
March	16.6°C	1.9°C	138 mm	10	11 h 52	31	Strong coverage
April	22.1°C	6.3°C	143 mm	9	13 h 02	58	Strong coverage
May	25.9°C	11.7°C	147 mm	9.4	14 h 01	66	Strong coverage
June	29.6°C	16.6°C	134 mm	9.1	14 h 32	59	Strong coverage
July	31.3°C	18.7°C	136 mm	8.6	14 h 20	50	Strong coverage
August	31.2°C	17.8°C	113 mm	7.2	13 h 29	56	Strong coverage
September	28.4°C	13.8°C	113 mm	6.6	12 h 21	69	Strong coverage
October	22.9°C	6.8°C	105 mm	6.7	11 h 14	69	Strong coverage
November	16.2°C	1.3°C	110 mm	7.7	10 h 15	35	Strong coverage
December	11.1°C	-1.5°C	156 mm	9.2	9 h 46	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Ashland runs +0.6°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

+1.4

Feb

+1.6

Mar

+0.8

Apr

0.0

May

-0.1

Jun

+0.2

Jul

-0.2

Aug

-0.3

Sep

+0.5

Oct

+0.7

Nov

+0.1

Dec

+2.0

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 29.7°C.

Records at WAYNESBORO, 1897–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.1°C22 Jan 1943	-29.4°C26 Jan 1940	137 mm23 Jan 2002	383 mm1950 · driest 18 mm in 1986	124
February	27.8°C23 Feb 1996	-28.9°C2 Feb 1951	135 mm13 Feb 1948	345 mm1948 · driest 24 mm in 1943	127
March	32.8°C24 Mar 1929	-16.7°C5 Mar 1960	140 mm28 Mar 1902	428 mm1973 · driest 14 mm in 1910	126
April	33.3°C29 Apr 1915	-7.2°C2 Apr 1924	176 mm15 Apr 1910	332 mm1912 · driest 21 mm in 1915	126
May	35.6°C28 May 1942	-2.8°C7 May 1944	144 mm27 May 1991	545 mm1991 · driest 5 mm in 2005	125
June	41.1°C29 Jun 1936	1.1°C1 Jun 1966	168 mm27 Jun 1999	301 mm1905 · driest 1 mm in 1988	124
July	42.2°C29 Jul 1952	5.0°C23 Jul 1947	162 mm19 Jul 1938	361 mm1938 · driest 27 mm in 1946	126
August	41.1°C17 Aug 1954	5.0°C31 Aug 1946	128 mm30 Aug 2005	273 mm1919 · driest 0 mm in 1999	124
September	41.7°C5 Sep 1954	-1.7°C30 Sep 1949	160 mm14 Sep 1979	291 mm1977 · driest 0 mm in 1897	125
October	35.6°C4 Oct 2019	-8.9°C29 Oct 1952	135 mm16 Oct 1932	266 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 1963	128
November	30.0°C1 Nov 1984	-20.6°C25 Nov 1950	127 mm19 Nov 1948	376 mm1948 · driest 24 mm in 1953	126
December	24.4°C12 Dec 2007	-22.8°C22 Dec 1989	175 mm13 Dec 1956	322 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 2000	126

Typical days per month at WAYNESBORO, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	22	4	<1
February	<1	0	19	5	<1
March	3	0	13	4	<1
April	11	<1	4	4	0
May	20	5	0	4	0
June	28	16	0	5	0
July	30	23	0	4	0
August	30	22	0	3	0
September	25	12	0	3	0
October	13	2	4	3	0
November	1	0	15	3	0
December	0	0	20	5	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 75); on 2011–2025 it is May (77). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in WAYNESBORO’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	3%	32%	15%	39%	6.2–12.9°C
February	8%	33%	15%	41%	8.0–15.1°C
March	25%	32%	16%	38%	13.5–20.2°C
April	49%	30%	15%	36%	19.8–24.4°C
May	64%	30%	14%	37%	23.8–28.2°C
June	71%	29%	13%	35%	28.0–32.1°C
July	71%	29%	13%	33%	30.3–33.8°C
August	75%	26%	11%	28%	29.7–33.5°C
September	76%	22%	9%	19%	26.5–31.1°C
October	62%	21%	9%	22%	21.0–25.9°C
November	24%	27%	13%	30%	13.6–19.1°C
December	4%	30%	15%	37%	8.0–13.8°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.

1899Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 107-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1976.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4603223
NOAA station: USC00409502 · WAYNESBORO
Station distance: 16.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.44°, 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 WAYNESBORO is what differs

Clifton→Waynesboro→Collinwood→Bethlehem→Bethlehem→Bird (historical)→

Or put two places side by side: Ashland vs Clifton

Best time to visitAshland.