United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Bacons Fork.

May leads for comfortable weather in Bacons Fork: typically 24.9°C by day, 12°C at night, with 111 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high24.9°C

Typical low12°C

Rain in May111 mm

Comfort

May

May · September · June

76climate match

Beach

August

August · June · July

72climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · May

77climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against May’s 76 — days reach only 9.1°C, 15° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -3.4°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

59.1° / -3.4°

Feb

1611.1° / -2.5°

Mar

3215.2° / 1.2°

Apr

6221.1° / 6.3°

May

7624.9° / 12°

Jun

6628.9° / 16.8°

Jul

5331° / 19.5°

Aug

6030.1° / 18.5°

Sep

7626.9° / 14.7°

Oct

6621.4° / 7.6°

Nov

4015.8° / 1.7°

Dec

1310.9° / -1.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Bacons Fork — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	9.1°C	-3.4°C	93 mm	8.3	9 h 53	5	Strong coverage
February	11.1°C	-2.5°C	76 mm	7.2	10 h 47	16	Strong coverage
March	15.2°C	1.2°C	106 mm	8.2	11 h 51	32	Strong coverage
April	21.1°C	6.3°C	94 mm	8.2	13 h 05	62	Strong coverage
May	24.9°C	12°C	111 mm	9	14 h 07	76	Strong coverage
June	28.9°C	16.8°C	106 mm	8	14 h 40	66	Strong coverage
July	31°C	19.5°C	116 mm	8.4	14 h 27	53	Strong coverage
August	30.1°C	18.5°C	109 mm	7.2	13 h 34	60	Strong coverage
September	26.9°C	14.7°C	112 mm	7	12 h 22	76	Strong coverage
October	21.4°C	7.6°C	98 mm	6.6	11 h 11	66	Strong coverage
November	15.8°C	1.7°C	80 mm	6.7	10 h 09	40	Strong coverage
December	10.9°C	-1.7°C	97 mm	8.7	9 h 39	13	Strong coverage

What has changed

Bacons Fork runs +0.2°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

+1.1

Feb

+1.7

Mar

+0.3

Apr

+0.4

May

-0.3

Jun

-0.4

Jul

-0.2

Aug

-1.0

Sep

-0.4

Oct

+0.4

Nov

-0.7

Dec

+1.6

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

Records at FT PICKETT, 1972–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	27.2°C31 Jan 2002	-25.0°C7 Jan 2018	71 mm8 Jan 1998	244 mm1998 · driest 13 mm in 1981	54
February	27.8°C27 Feb 1977	-22.8°C10 Feb 1979	96 mm14 Feb 1984	203 mm1984 · driest 9 mm in 1978	54
March	31.7°C14 Mar 1990	-14.4°C3 Mar 1980	74 mm7 Mar 1992	221 mm1975 · driest 8 mm in 2006	54
April	35.0°C21 Apr 1985	-11.7°C10 Apr 1985	117 mm18 Apr 2000	200 mm1987 · driest 9 mm in 1985	54
May	35.0°C31 May 1991	-1.7°C10 May 2020	144 mm26 May 2003	378 mm2003 · driest 30 mm in 1991	54
June	39.4°C30 Jun 2012	2.2°C2 Jun 2025	76 mm7 Jun 1981	234 mm2001 · driest 18 mm in 1990	53
July	39.4°C25 Jul 2010	5.0°C2 Jul 1988	117 mm21 Jul 2012	303 mm1975 · driest 10 mm in 1977	53
August	39.4°C23 Aug 1983	5.0°C30 Aug 1986	126 mm31 Aug 2004	319 mm2004 · driest 12 mm in 1976	53
September	38.3°C12 Sep 1983	1.7°C24 Sep 1974	150 mm19 Sep 2003	360 mm1999 · driest 14 mm in 2013	53
October	36.1°C4 Oct 2019	-5.6°C24 Oct 1987	145 mm12 Oct 2018	219 mm2018 · driest 4 mm in 2000	53
November	30.0°C2 Nov 1974	-13.3°C12 Nov 2016	116 mm4 Nov 1985	293 mm1985 · driest 5 mm in 2012	53
December	26.7°C7 Dec 1998	-18.3°C26 Dec 1980	76 mm3 Dec 2009	226 mm2009 · driest 15 mm in 1994	54

Typical days per month at FT PICKETT, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	22	3	<1
February	<1	0	21	3	<1
March	3	<1	14	4	<1
April	9	1	4	3	0
May	17	4	0	3	0
June	26	13	0	4	0
July	30	21	0	4	0
August	29	17	0	3	0
September	21	7	0	3	0
October	8	<1	3	3	0
November	1	0	13	3	0
December	<1	0	21	3	<1

How often, not how much — every day in FT PICKETT’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	4%	27%	12%	29%	5.9–11.9°C
February	8%	27%	10%	31%	7.7–14.1°C
March	23%	28%	12%	29%	12.5–18.2°C
April	47%	26%	10%	28%	19.4–23.4°C
May	64%	29%	12%	34%	23.0–26.6°C
June	73%	26%	11%	28%	27.3–30.6°C
July	72%	28%	12%	33%	29.4–33.3°C
August	74%	26%	11%	25%	28.5–32.3°C
September	75%	23%	10%	23%	25.5–29.2°C
October	54%	21%	9%	22%	19.7–23.6°C
November	24%	22%	9%	21%	13.3–18.5°C
December	5%	27%	10%	30%	7.8–13.9°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.

1973Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 52-year average. Warmest: 2019. Coolest: 1988.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4745205
NOAA station: USC00441322 · FT PICKETT
Station distance: 22.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 36.85°, 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 FT PICKETT is what differs

Blackstone→Kenbridge→McKenney→Nottoway Court House→Hickory Run→Baltimore Corner→

Or put two places side by side: Bacons Fork vs Blackstone

Best time to visitBacons Fork.

May

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Bacons Fork runs +0.2°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Bacons Fork.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Bacons Fork runs +0.2°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.