United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Crystal Lake.

April leads for comfortable weather in Crystal Lake: typically 24.9°C by day, 11.8°C at night, with 111 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high24.9°C

Typical low11.8°C

Rain in April111 mm

Comfort

April

April · October · March

77climate match

Beach

September

September · June · July

75climate match

Outdoors

November

November · March · February

79climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 34 against April’s 77 — days reach only 14.8°C, 9° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 2.6°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

3414.8° / 2.6°

Feb

4717.1° / 4.7°

Mar

6621.4° / 8.5°

Apr

7724.9° / 11.8°

May

6628.5° / 17.2°

Jun

4731.9° / 21.2°

Jul

4634.1° / 22.8°

Aug

4234.5° / 22.4°

Sep

6031.5° / 18.7°

Oct

7526.6° / 12.9°

Nov

6019.9° / 7.3°

Dec

3815.6° / 3.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Crystal Lake — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	14.8°C	2.6°C	105 mm	7.5	10 h 17	34	Strong coverage
February	17.1°C	4.7°C	92 mm	7.3	11 h 01	47	Strong coverage
March	21.4°C	8.5°C	103 mm	7.5	11 h 53	66	Strong coverage
April	24.9°C	11.8°C	111 mm	6.8	12 h 55	77	Strong coverage
May	28.5°C	17.2°C	115 mm	7.2	13 h 45	66	Strong coverage
June	31.9°C	21.2°C	121 mm	6.6	14 h 12	47	Strong coverage
July	34.1°C	22.8°C	65 mm	5.3	14 h 02	46	Strong coverage
August	34.5°C	22.4°C	94 mm	5	13 h 18	42	Strong coverage
September	31.5°C	18.7°C	78 mm	5.8	12 h 19	60	Strong coverage
October	26.6°C	12.9°C	110 mm	5.6	11 h 20	75	Strong coverage
November	19.9°C	7.3°C	100 mm	6.8	10 h 30	60	Strong coverage
December	15.6°C	3.4°C	106 mm	7.4	10 h 05	38	Strong coverage

What has changed

Crystal Lake 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

+1.6

Feb

+0.5

Mar

+1.1

Apr

-0.2

May

0.0

Jun

+0.5

Jul

0.0

Aug

+0.3

Sep

+1.6

Oct

+0.5

Nov

-0.6

Dec

+1.0

April daytime highs, 2011–2024. Last recorded: 24.2°C.

Records at PALESTINE 2 NE, 1930–2024
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.9°C23 Jan 1943	-20.0°C18 Jan 1930	155 mm29 Jan 1999	277 mm1932 · driest 11 mm in 1936	89
February	33.3°C20 Feb 1986	-17.8°C16 Feb 2021	70 mm22 Feb 2003	220 mm1997 · driest 5 mm in 1999	86
March	35.0°C30 Mar 1946	-10.0°C3 Mar 1943	92 mm30 Mar 1965	237 mm1945 · driest 11 mm in 1940	91
April	35.0°C10 Apr 1963	-2.2°C11 Apr 1989	198 mm30 Apr 2016	348 mm2016 · driest 5 mm in 1983	87
May	37.2°C30 May 1998	2.8°C4 May 2013	163 mm18 May 2019	380 mm1965 · driest 1 mm in 1998	90
June	39.4°C21 Jun 1936	8.9°C11 Jun 1988	161 mm9 Jun 2010	324 mm2001 · driest 1 mm in 1934	90
July	45.6°C26 Jul 1954	13.9°C15 Jul 1967	184 mm8 Jul 2024	312 mm2024 · driest 0 mm in 1993	91
August	43.3°C31 Aug 1954	11.7°C9 Aug 1989	231 mm14 Aug 1991	341 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 1999	89
September	42.8°C4 Sep 2000	4.4°C23 Sep 1983	155 mm4 Sep 1932	229 mm1974 · driest 0 mm in 1931	89
October	38.3°C1 Oct 1953	-2.8°C20 Oct 1989	225 mm14 Oct 1957	365 mm1957 · driest 1 mm in 2005	89
November	31.1°C8 Nov 1994	-7.8°C27 Nov 1993	181 mm23 Nov 1940	405 mm1940 · driest 2 mm in 1955	90
December	28.9°C4 Dec 2005	-18.3°C23 Dec 1989	153 mm15 Dec 1992	245 mm2002 · driest 3 mm in 1950	90

Typical days per month at PALESTINE 2 NE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	1	0	12	3
February	3	<1	8	3
March	9	<1	3	3
April	17	2	<1	3
May	26	11	0	3
June	29	24	0	3
July	30	29	0	2
August	30	28	0	3
September	27	21	0	2
October	21	7	<1	3
November	6	<1	4	3
December	2	0	10	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was April (scoring 83); on 2011–2025 it is October (77). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in PALESTINE 2 NE’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	19%	24%	9%	26%	11.0–17.4°C
February	30%	25%	10%	26%	13.2–20.0°C
March	51%	23%	10%	18%	18.0–23.7°C
April	71%	21%	10%	19%	22.8–26.9°C
May	76%	24%	12%	23%	26.9–29.9°C
June	81%	20%	10%	20%	30.2–33.8°C
July	83%	17%	6%	15%	32.1–36.2°C
August	84%	16%	6%	14%	32.5–37.0°C
September	81%	19%	8%	17%	29.2–33.5°C
October	78%	17%	9%	16%	24.5–28.4°C
November	45%	22%	10%	23%	17.7–22.3°C
December	23%	23%	10%	26%	12.7–18.1°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.

1930Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 77-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1979.2023

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4684491
NOAA station: USW00093914 · PALESTINE 2 NE
Station distance: 10.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 31.74°, 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 PALESTINE 2 NE is what differs

Palestine→Elkhart→Alderbranch→Brushy Creek→Cronin→Deanwright→

Or put two places side by side: Crystal Lake vs Palestine

Best time to visitCrystal Lake.

April

September

November

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Crystal Lake runs +0.5°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Crystal Lake.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

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

Nearby, measured,
and named.