United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Dry Valley.

April leads for comfortable weather in Dry Valley: typically 23.7°C by day, 9.8°C at night, with 77 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high23.7°C

Typical low9.8°C

Rain in April77 mm

Comfort

April

April · October · May

82climate match

Beach

September

September · July · August

76climate match

Outdoors

March

March · November · April

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 31 against April’s 82 — days reach only 12.3°C, 12° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -1°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

3112.3° / -1°

Feb

4014.7° / 1°

Mar

6119.5° / 5.4°

Apr

8223.7° / 9.8°

May

7127.3° / 15.3°

Jun

5431.7° / 19.9°

Jul

4834.2° / 22.2°

Aug

4834.4° / 21.9°

Sep

6630.3° / 17.6°

Oct

8124.6° / 11.1°

Nov

6018.4° / 4.6°

Dec

3313° / -0.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Dry Valley — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	12.3°C	-1°C	41 mm	4	10 h 09	31	Strong coverage
February	14.7°C	1°C	59 mm	4.4	10 h 56	40	Strong coverage
March	19.5°C	5.4°C	74 mm	5	11 h 53	61	Strong coverage
April	23.7°C	9.8°C	77 mm	4.9	12 h 58	82	Strong coverage
May	27.3°C	15.3°C	132 mm	7.2	13 h 53	71	Strong coverage
June	31.7°C	19.9°C	103 mm	5.9	14 h 22	54	Strong coverage
July	34.2°C	22.2°C	64 mm	4	14 h 10	48	Strong coverage
August	34.4°C	21.9°C	63 mm	4.3	13 h 24	48	Strong coverage
September	30.3°C	17.6°C	84 mm	4.8	12 h 20	66	Strong coverage
October	24.6°C	11.1°C	93 mm	5.3	11 h 17	81	Strong coverage
November	18.4°C	4.6°C	48 mm	4.1	10 h 23	60	Strong coverage
December	13°C	-0.2°C	52 mm	3.9	9 h 56	33	Strong coverage

What has changed

Dry Valley runs -0.3°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

+0.2

Feb

-0.9

Mar

-0.1

Apr

-1.4

May

-1.1

Jun

-0.2

Jul

-0.9

Aug

-0.2

Sep

+0.6

Oct

-0.2

Nov

0.0

Dec

+0.6

April daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 23.9°C.

Records at BOWIE, 1897–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	33.3°C31 Jan 1911	-18.9°C12 Jan 1912	87 mm21 Jan 1916	137 mm1916 · driest 0 mm in 1912	100
February	34.4°C24 Feb 1996	-21.7°C16 Feb 2021	83 mm21 Feb 2018	216 mm2001 · driest 0 mm in 1926	101
March	37.8°C31 Mar 1974	-12.8°C4 Mar 2014	102 mm27 Mar 1977	220 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1925	100
April	40.6°C18 Apr 1925	-5.6°C13 Apr 1997	160 mm20 Apr 2025	299 mm2025 · driest 4 mm in 1903	101
May	41.7°C29 May 1927	0.6°C3 May 2013	260 mm16 May 1989	550 mm2015 · driest 9 mm in 1996	101
June	46.1°C28 Jun 1980	7.2°C1 Jun 1903	138 mm18 Jun 2015	257 mm1989 · driest 2 mm in 1901	99
July	45.0°C15 Jul 1978	11.7°C10 Jul 1905	148 mm30 Jul 1973	214 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1993	100
August	43.9°C6 Aug 1956	11.1°C31 Aug 1915	122 mm13 Aug 1909	201 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 2000	99
September	42.8°C9 Sep 2023	2.8°C24 Sep 1989	153 mm21 Sep 1900	307 mm1900 · driest 0 mm in 1956	99
October	39.4°C4 Oct 1898	-7.8°C30 Oct 1917	152 mm13 Oct 1981	382 mm1981 · driest 0 mm in 1921	99
November	32.8°C3 Nov 2017	-10.6°C18 Nov 1903	114 mm18 Nov 1964	263 mm2024 · driest 0 mm in 1955	98
December	31.1°C24 Dec 1955	-23.9°C23 Dec 1989	69 mm19 Dec 1956	155 mm1926 · driest 0 mm in 1996	98

Typical days per month at BOWIE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	19	2
February	2	<1	13	2
March	7	1	5	2
April	15	3	<1	2
May	24	9	0	4
June	29	23	0	3
July	30	28	0	2
August	30	28	0	2
September	27	18	0	2
October	16	5	<1	3
November	4	<1	7	2
December	<1	0	17	2

How often, not how much — every day in BOWIE’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	17%	12%	4%	9%	9.2–15.9°C
February	28%	16%	6%	11%	11.2–19.0°C
March	50%	16%	7%	13%	16.8–24.4°C
April	69%	20%	9%	19%	22.2–26.8°C
May	75%	23%	12%	24%	25.7–30.4°C
June	82%	18%	9%	15%	30.3–35.2°C
July	87%	13%	6%	9%	32.8–38.2°C
August	85%	15%	6%	13%	32.7–37.9°C
September	83%	17%	8%	14%	28.4–33.9°C
October	75%	16%	8%	13%	23.1–28.1°C
November	46%	14%	5%	10%	16.1–21.6°C
December	18%	12%	5%	7%	10.4–16.7°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.

1898Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 91-year average. Warmest: 1911. Coolest: 1989.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4687144
NOAA station: USC00410984 · BOWIE
Station distance: 14.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 33.55°, 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 BOWIE is what differs

Bowie→Bellevue→Buffalo Springs→Dye→Fruitland→Mallard→

Or put two places side by side: Dry Valley vs Bowie

Best time to visitDry Valley.

April

September

March

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Dry Valley runs -0.3°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Dry Valley.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Dry Valley runs -0.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.