United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Gum Creek.

May leads for comfortable weather in Gum Creek: typically 23.7°C by day, 13.5°C at night, with 136 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high23.7°C

Typical low13.5°C

Rain in May136 mm

Comfort

May

May · September · October

76climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

71climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · May

81climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against May’s 76 — days reach only 7.2°C, 17° 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

57.2° / -1.7°

Feb

59.4° / 0°

Mar

3114.6° / 4.7°

Apr

5119.9° / 9.1°

May

7623.7° / 13.5°

Jun

6327.7° / 17.3°

Jul

5428.9° / 19°

Aug

5928.8° / 18.9°

Sep

7625.7° / 16°

Oct

6520.4° / 10°

Nov

3314.6° / 4.7°

Dec

59.1° / 0.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Gum Creek — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	7.2°C	-1.7°C	126 mm	9.6	10 h 01	5	Good coverage
February	9.4°C	0°C	145 mm	10.5	10 h 51	5	Good coverage
March	14.6°C	4.7°C	135 mm	9.4	11 h 52	31	Good coverage
April	19.9°C	9.1°C	168 mm	9.3	13 h 02	51	Good coverage
May	23.7°C	13.5°C	136 mm	10.2	14 h	76	Good coverage
June	27.7°C	17.3°C	135 mm	9.9	14 h 31	63	Good coverage
July	28.9°C	19°C	146 mm	10.6	14 h 19	54	Good coverage
August	28.8°C	18.9°C	124 mm	9.2	13 h 29	59	Good coverage
September	25.7°C	16°C	126 mm	6.7	12 h 21	76	Good coverage
October	20.4°C	10°C	106 mm	7.5	11 h 14	65	Good coverage
November	14.6°C	4.7°C	130 mm	7.9	10 h 16	33	Good coverage
December	9.1°C	0.7°C	179 mm	9.8	9 h 47	5	Good coverage

Records at SEWANEE, 1895–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	22.8°C2 Jan 2022	-23.3°C19 Jan 1940	83 mm31 Jan 1915	280 mm1937 · driest 3 mm in 1912	72
February	26.7°C24 Feb 2023	-23.9°C13 Feb 1899	131 mm3 Feb 1939	396 mm1939 · driest 15 mm in 1915	72
March	30.0°C24 Mar 1929	-16.1°C3 Mar 1943	102 mm4 Mar 1913	427 mm1897 · driest 31 mm in 1910	74
April	32.2°C24 Apr 1925	-6.7°C6 Apr 1898	131 mm27 Apr 2011	337 mm2013 · driest 24 mm in 2012	73
May	33.9°C22 May 1941	-0.6°C8 May 1931	102 mm26 May 1906	303 mm2003 · driest 0 mm in 1914	74
June	38.3°C30 Jun 2012	3.9°C7 Jun 1928	84 mm8 Jun 2019	285 mm1900 · driest 5 mm in 1936	72
July	39.4°C30 Jul 1930	11.1°C4 Jul 1922	97 mm4 Jul 1936	315 mm2003 · driest 18 mm in 1940	73
August	38.3°C8 Aug 1930	10.0°C13 Aug 2004	136 mm10 Aug 1920	450 mm1920 · driest 24 mm in 1929	69
September	37.2°C15 Sep 2019	1.1°C30 Sep 1899	152 mm13 Sep 1929	246 mm1929 · driest 4 mm in 1928	70
October	34.4°C2 Oct 2019	-4.4°C24 Oct 1937	102 mm17 Oct 1932	270 mm1925 · driest 0 mm in 1924	73
November	29.4°C1 Nov 1901	-16.1°C20 Nov 1914	108 mm16 Nov 1927	228 mm2018 · driest 15 mm in 1908	73
December	22.2°C19 Dec 1931	-21.1°C9 Dec 1917	136 mm25 Dec 1914	347 mm1926 · driest 13 mm in 2007	70

Typical days per month at SEWANEE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	19	4	<1
February	0	0	15	4	1
March	<1	0	8	4	<1
April	5	0	1	5	<1
May	14	<1	0	5	0
June	25	7	0	4	0
July	28	12	0	5	0
August	28	11	0	4	0
September	19	4	0	3	0
October	6	<1	1	4	0
November	<1	0	6	4	<1
December	0	0	15	5	<1

How often, not how much — every day in SEWANEE’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%	31%	15%	37%	4.2–10.9°C
February	3%	33%	16%	41%	6.1–13.2°C
March	17%	30%	16%	34%	11.1–18.0°C
April	40%	30%	15%	33%	17.4–22.1°C
May	60%	29%	14%	34%	21.6–26.3°C
June	69%	30%	15%	33%	25.7–29.9°C
July	69%	31%	16%	35%	27.4–31.0°C
August	74%	26%	13%	26%	26.8–31.3°C
September	77%	19%	10%	15%	24.0–29.2°C
October	54%	19%	10%	19%	18.5–23.2°C
November	15%	24%	12%	25%	11.4–17.0°C
December	<1%	29%	15%	31%	6.2–12.0°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.

1896Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 49-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 2014.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4626811
NOAA station: USC00408184 · SEWANEE
Station distance: 12.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 20 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.29°, 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 SEWANEE is what differs

Sewanee→Alto→Bobtown→Calls→Midway→Oak Grove→

Or put two places side by side: Gum Creek vs Sewanee

Best time to visitGum Creek.

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Gum Creek.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.