United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Fresno.

March leads for comfortable weather in Fresno: typically 23.6°C by day, 11.7°C at night, with 80 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMarch

Typical high23.6°C

Typical low11.7°C

Rain in March80 mm

Comfort

March

March · November · April

84climate match

Beach

May

May · September · October

72climate match

Outdoors

February

February · December · March

85climate match

The weakest month is August, scoring 32 against March’s 84 — days average 35.1°C, 11° 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

5218.3° / 6.6°

Feb

6820.4° / 8.6°

Mar

8423.6° / 11.7°

Apr

7727.1° / 14.8°

May

5630.8° / 19.2°

Jun

3933.6° / 22.5°

Jul

3834.4° / 23.6°

Aug

3235.1° / 23.6°

Sep

4632.7° / 21.2°

Oct

6729° / 16.1°

Nov

7923.2° / 11.2°

Dec

6019.5° / 7.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Fresno — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	18.3°C	6.6°C	107 mm	7.6	10 h 26	52	Good coverage
February	20.4°C	8.6°C	77 mm	6.2	11 h 06	68	Strong coverage
March	23.6°C	11.7°C	80 mm	5.7	11 h 54	84	Good coverage
April	27.1°C	14.8°C	106 mm	5.6	12 h 50	77	Strong coverage
May	30.8°C	19.2°C	121 mm	5.2	13 h 37	56	Good coverage
June	33.6°C	22.5°C	125 mm	7.1	14 h 02	39	Strong coverage
July	34.4°C	23.6°C	98 mm	7.3	13 h 52	38	Good coverage
August	35.1°C	23.6°C	121 mm	7.6	13 h 12	32	Strong coverage
September	32.7°C	21.2°C	106 mm	7.3	12 h 18	46	Strong coverage
October	29°C	16.1°C	130 mm	4.9	11 h 24	67	Good coverage
November	23.2°C	11.2°C	97 mm	5.8	10 h 38	79	Good coverage
December	19.5°C	7.8°C	98 mm	6.5	10 h 15	60	Good coverage

What has changed

Fresno runs +1.3°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

+2.2

Feb

+2.6

Mar

+2.1

Apr

+1.5

May

+0.9

Jun

+0.9

Jul

+0.6

Aug

+0.6

Sep

+0.9

Oct

+1.6

Nov

+0.3

Dec

+1.3

March daytime highs, 2011–2020. Last recorded: 25.7°C.

Records at THOMPSONS 3 WSW, 1942–2023
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	31.7°C5 Jan 2004	-10.6°C12 Jan 1962	86 mm15 Jan 1991	266 mm1991 · driest 6 mm in 2010	63
February	31.7°C21 Feb 2009	-6.7°C5 Feb 1989	79 mm27 Feb 2019	296 mm1959 · driest 5 mm in 1996	66
March	33.3°C29 Mar 1972	-6.1°C4 Mar 2002	94 mm24 Mar 1973	207 mm1997 · driest 2 mm in 2006	64
April	37.8°C25 Apr 2015	0.0°C6 Apr 1987	220 mm19 Apr 2009	316 mm2009 · driest 1 mm in 1987	65
May	40.0°C23 May 2013	2.2°C4 May 2013	178 mm26 May 2015	449 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1998	68
June	41.1°C6 Jun 2011	10.6°C13 Jun 1995	215 mm26 Jun 1960	461 mm1960 · driest 0 mm in 2009	69
July	41.1°C7 Jul 2005	13.9°C2 Jul 2006	163 mm28 Jul 1943	313 mm1943 · driest 8 mm in 1994	69
August	42.2°C29 Aug 2011	15.6°C1 Aug 1971	285 mm27 Aug 2017	587 mm2017 · driest 3 mm in 1999	69
September	40.0°C22 Sep 2005	5.6°C29 Sep 1967	242 mm19 Sep 1983	363 mm1979 · driest 4 mm in 2004	67
October	36.7°C24 Oct 2008	0.0°C20 Oct 1989	154 mm31 Oct 1959	363 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 2010	67
November	33.9°C17 Nov 1991	-6.1°C29 Nov 1976	198 mm12 Nov 1985	286 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 1945	64
December	32.8°C25 Dec 1987	-13.3°C23 Dec 1989	93 mm8 Dec 2018	225 mm1991 · driest 8 mm in 1970	66

Typical days per month at THOMPSONS 3 WSW, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	4	<1	3	3
February	7	<1	1	2
March	14	1	<1	2
April	23	6	0	3
May	29	20	0	3
June	29	27	0	4
July	30	29	0	3
August	30	30	0	3
September	29	25	0	3
October	26	15	0	3
November	14	2	<1	3
December	6	<1	2	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was April (scoring 87); on 2011–2025 it is March (88). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in THOMPSONS 3 WSW’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	30%	26%	10%	26%	13.6–20.3°C
February	42%	24%	9%	22%	15.8–23.0°C
March	63%	19%	7%	12%	20.5–25.1°C
April	80%	17%	9%	14%	24.9–28.6°C
May	80%	20%	11%	20%	28.4–31.9°C
June	75%	24%	12%	26%	31.6–34.7°C
July	76%	24%	10%	22%	32.8–35.8°C
August	74%	25%	11%	29%	32.7–36.1°C
September	74%	26%	10%	28%	30.6–33.6°C
October	80%	17%	10%	14%	26.6–30.0°C
November	58%	22%	10%	20%	20.3–25.5°C
December	36%	23%	10%	24%	15.8–21.1°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.

1943Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 48-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 1976.2019

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4692400
NOAA station: USC00418996 · THOMPSONS 3 WSW
Station distance: 18.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 22 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 29.54°, 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 THOMPSONS 3 WSW is what differs

Sienna Plantation→Needville→Arcola→Pleak→Fairchilds→Beasley→

Or put two places side by side: Fresno vs Sienna Plantation

Best time to visitFresno.

March

May

February

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Fresno runs +1.3°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Fresno.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Fresno runs +1.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.