United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Ames.

April leads for comfortable weather in Ames: typically 26.1°C by day, 14.8°C at night, with 116 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high26.1°C

Typical low14.8°C

Rain in April116 mm

Comfort

April

April · March · November

78climate match

Beach

May

May · September · June

70climate match

Outdoors

February

February · March · November

77climate match

The weakest month is August, scoring 31 against April’s 78 — days average 34.2°C, 10° above 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

4417.5° / 5.5°

Feb

5819.3° / 7.6°

Mar

7722.9° / 11.3°

Apr

7826.1° / 14.8°

May

5529.6° / 19.3°

Jun

3732.6° / 22.5°

Jul

3433.9° / 23.7°

Aug

3134.2° / 23.6°

Sep

3932.1° / 21°

Oct

6428° / 15.5°

Nov

6922.3° / 9.6°

Dec

4618.2° / 6.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Ames — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	17.5°C	5.5°C	128 mm	8.2	10 h 24	44	Strong coverage
February	19.3°C	7.6°C	101 mm	7.7	11 h 05	58	Strong coverage
March	22.9°C	11.3°C	100 mm	6.9	11 h 54	77	Strong coverage
April	26.1°C	14.8°C	116 mm	6.6	12 h 51	78	Strong coverage
May	29.6°C	19.3°C	146 mm	6.1	13 h 39	55	Strong coverage
June	32.6°C	22.5°C	151 mm	8.5	14 h 04	37	Strong coverage
July	33.9°C	23.7°C	127 mm	7.7	13 h 54	34	Strong coverage
August	34.2°C	23.6°C	148 mm	7.7	13 h 14	31	Strong coverage
September	32.1°C	21°C	176 mm	7.3	12 h 18	39	Strong coverage
October	28°C	15.5°C	173 mm	6.2	11 h 23	64	Strong coverage
November	22.3°C	9.6°C	128 mm	6.1	10 h 36	69	Strong coverage
December	18.2°C	6.2°C	140 mm	7.8	10 h 13	46	Strong coverage

What has changed

Ames runs +0.9°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

+1.7

Feb

+1.5

Mar

+1.3

Apr

+0.6

May

+0.2

Jun

+0.6

Jul

+0.3

Aug

+0.5

Sep

+1.1

Oct

+1.1

Nov

+0.8

Dec

+0.9

April daytime highs, 2011–2020. Last recorded: 27.0°C.

Records at LIBERTY, 1904–2020
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	31.1°C21 Jan 2005	-13.3°C18 Jan 1930	191 mm11 Jan 1939	273 mm1939 · driest 0 mm in 1909	114
February	32.8°C28 Feb 1940	-12.2°C2 Feb 1951	159 mm18 Feb 1961	278 mm1959 · driest 1 mm in 1911	116
March	35.0°C30 Mar 1946	-7.8°C20 Mar 1923	137 mm14 Mar 1937	286 mm1926 · driest 0 mm in 1916	116
April	36.1°C16 Apr 1920	-1.1°C3 Apr 1915	170 mm15 Apr 1908	352 mm1979 · driest 1 mm in 1987	115
May	37.8°C27 May 1906	4.4°C1 May 1925	269 mm18 May 1989	460 mm1907 · driest 0 mm in 2003	116
June	40.6°C27 Jun 1930	10.6°C17 Jun 1917	300 mm19 Jun 2006	469 mm1981 · driest 3 mm in 1917	115
July	42.2°C20 Jul 1913	14.4°C16 Jul 1967	260 mm28 Jul 1943	417 mm1943 · driest 0 mm in 1993	115
August	41.7°C10 Aug 1962	12.8°C21 Aug 1940	455 mm28 Aug 2017	1251 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 1927	114
September	41.7°C2 Sep 2000	4.4°C28 Sep 1909	394 mm19 Sep 2019	731 mm2019 · driest 6 mm in 1953	112
October	36.7°C3 Oct 1952	-2.8°C31 Oct 1917	470 mm18 Oct 1994	752 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 1952	112
November	33.9°C3 Nov 2016	-8.9°C30 Nov 1911	227 mm5 Nov 1925	344 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 2009	115
December	31.7°C19 Dec 1941	-13.9°C24 Dec 1989	172 mm8 Dec 2018	358 mm1911 · driest 20 mm in 2019	116

Typical days per month at LIBERTY, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	3	<1	4	4
February	4	<1	2	3
March	12	<1	<1	3
April	21	3	0	3
May	29	17	0	3
June	29	27	0	4
July	31	29	0	4
August	30	29	0	3
September	28	24	0	4
October	24	11	<1	3
November	12	<1	1	4
December	4	<1	4	4

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was April (scoring 85); on 2011–2025 it is March (84). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in LIBERTY’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	33%	26%	11%	29%	14.3–20.6°C
February	43%	24%	11%	25%	15.9–22.4°C
March	64%	20%	9%	16%	20.2–25.5°C
April	78%	20%	10%	18%	24.6–27.8°C
May	80%	20%	11%	19%	28.4–31.1°C
June	76%	24%	12%	28%	31.4–34.3°C
July	75%	25%	11%	28%	32.7–35.5°C
August	77%	23%	10%	27%	33.1–36.2°C
September	76%	24%	11%	25%	30.7–34.0°C
October	81%	18%	9%	17%	26.4–30.1°C
November	60%	21%	10%	22%	20.0–25.2°C
December	34%	26%	12%	30%	15.9–21.0°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.

1906Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 96-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1976.2020

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4670667
NOAA station: USC00415196 · LIBERTY
Station distance: 5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 30.05°, 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 LIBERTY is what differs

Liberty→Dayton→Daisetta→Hardin→Hull→Kenefick→

Or put two places side by side: Ames vs Liberty

Best time to visitAmes.

April

May

February

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Ames runs +0.9°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Ames.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Ames runs +0.9°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.