United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Rice.

April leads for comfortable weather in Rice: typically 24.6°C by day, 11.8°C at night, with 93 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high24.6°C

Typical low11.8°C

Rain in April93 mm

Comfort

April

April · October · May

81climate match

Beach

June

June · July · September

74climate match

Outdoors

November

November · March · April

83climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 35 against April’s 81 — days reach only 14.2°C, 10° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 1.1°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

3514.2° / 1.1°

Feb

4716.7° / 3.6°

Mar

6320.4° / 7.4°

Apr

8124.6° / 11.8°

May

6628.6° / 17.1°

Jun

4932.8° / 21.2°

Jul

4635.2° / 22.9°

Aug

4135.6° / 22.6°

Sep

5831.9° / 18.6°

Oct

7026.6° / 12.2°

Nov

6320.1° / 6.7°

Dec

3915.5° / 2.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Rice — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	14.2°C	1.1°C	75 mm	5.9	10 h 15	35	Strong coverage
February	16.7°C	3.6°C	77 mm	5.8	10 h 59	47	Strong coverage
March	20.4°C	7.4°C	94 mm	6.7	11 h 53	63	Strong coverage
April	24.6°C	11.8°C	93 mm	6	12 h 56	81	Strong coverage
May	28.6°C	17.1°C	113 mm	7.2	13 h 47	66	Strong coverage
June	32.8°C	21.2°C	94 mm	6.5	14 h 15	49	Strong coverage
July	35.2°C	22.9°C	46 mm	4	14 h 04	46	Strong coverage
August	35.6°C	22.6°C	72 mm	4.7	13 h 20	41	Strong coverage
September	31.9°C	18.6°C	89 mm	4.7	12 h 20	58	Strong coverage
October	26.6°C	12.2°C	132 mm	5.7	11 h 20	70	Strong coverage
November	20.1°C	6.7°C	79 mm	5.9	10 h 28	63	Strong coverage
December	15.5°C	2.3°C	90 mm	5.6	10 h 03	39	Strong coverage

What has changed

Rice runs +0.7°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

+1.4

Feb

+2.0

Mar

+0.8

Apr

0.0

May

+0.1

Jun

+0.2

Jul

+0.2

Aug

+0.7

Sep

+1.0

Oct

+0.7

Nov

—

Dec

—

April daytime highs, 2011–2019. Last recorded: 22.3°C.

Records at BARDWELL DAM, 1965–2022
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.9°C4 Jan 2006	-16.7°C11 Jan 1982	115 mm19 Jan 1990	217 mm1990 · driest 2 mm in 1976	55
February	35.0°C22 Feb 1996	-13.3°C2 Feb 1985	84 mm12 Feb 2020	176 mm2020 · driest 4 mm in 1980	56
March	35.0°C11 Mar 2007	-11.7°C4 Mar 2002	100 mm12 Mar 2009	232 mm2007 · driest 5 mm in 2011	55
April	36.1°C19 Apr 2006	-6.7°C1 Apr 2019	95 mm24 Apr 1973	304 mm1966 · driest 2 mm in 1983	56
May	37.8°C30 May 1998	3.9°C3 May 2013	102 mm9 May 2014	340 mm2015 · driest 5 mm in 1998	56
June	42.2°C27 Jun 1980	9.4°C16 Jun 1989	125 mm16 Jun 1981	348 mm1981 · driest 1 mm in 1978	55
July	42.2°C16 Jul 1998	13.9°C21 Jul 1989	92 mm27 Jul 1971	159 mm1971 · driest 0 mm in 2015	55
August	42.2°C4 Aug 2011	11.7°C28 Aug 1992	96 mm18 Aug 2016	246 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1984	54
September	43.3°C5 Sep 2000	2.8°C25 Sep 1989	122 mm2 Sep 1976	265 mm1976 · driest 1 mm in 1997	56
October	37.2°C3 Oct 1989	-3.3°C31 Oct 1993	213 mm24 Oct 2015	406 mm2018 · driest 3 mm in 2005	54
November	31.7°C10 Nov 2005	-6.7°C29 Nov 1976	134 mm13 Nov 1998	250 mm2000 · driest 6 mm in 1966	54
December	28.3°C4 Dec 2005	-21.7°C23 Dec 1989	163 mm16 Dec 2001	230 mm1991 · driest 4 mm in 1981	54

Typical days per month at BARDWELL DAM, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	1	0	13	2
February	2	<1	7	2
March	8	<1	3	3
April	17	2	<1	3
May	25	12	0	4
June	28	25	0	3
July	30	29	0	2
August	29	28	0	2
September	26	21	0	2
October	20	8	<1	3
November	7	<1	3	3
December	2	0	10	2

How often, not how much — every day in BARDWELL DAM’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%	18%	7%	16%	10.4–16.4°C
February	28%	20%	8%	18%	12.8–19.6°C
March	48%	20%	9%	16%	17.8–22.8°C
April	71%	20%	10%	18%	22.4–26.5°C
May	75%	26%	13%	27%	26.9–29.7°C
June	80%	20%	9%	20%	30.9–34.5°C
July	86%	14%	5%	12%	33.3–37.1°C
August	85%	15%	6%	14%	33.2–37.1°C
September	83%	17%	8%	12%	29.5–33.6°C
October	75%	17%	9%	18%	23.9–28.3°C
November	46%	19%	9%	17%	16.9–22.6°C
December	21%	18%	7%	17%	12.1–17.4°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.

1966Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 47-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1989.2017

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4722543
NOAA station: USC00410518 · BARDWELL DAM
Station distance: 13.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 32.24°, 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 BARDWELL DAM is what differs

Ennis→Nash→Italy→Garrett→Rankin→Bardwell→

Or put two places side by side: Rice vs Ennis

Best time to visitRice.