United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Bessemer.

September leads for comfortable weather in Bessemer: typically 27°C by day, 14°C at night, with 103 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high27°C

Typical low14°C

Rain in September103 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · October

75climate match

Beach

August

August · June · July

74climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · May

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 6 against September’s 75 — days reach only 8.5°C, 15° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -2.8°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

68.5° / -2.8°

Feb

2111° / -1.8°

Mar

3515.8° / 1.4°

Apr

6722.5° / 6.5°

May

7226.1° / 11.5°

Jun

6529.7° / 16°

Jul

5131.7° / 18.6°

Aug

6430.7° / 17.7°

Sep

7527° / 14°

Oct

7021.4° / 7°

Nov

3815.1° / 1.8°

Dec

129.7° / -1.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Bessemer — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	8.5°C	-2.8°C	85 mm	6.9	9 h 49	6	Good coverage
February	11°C	-1.8°C	63 mm	5.9	10 h 44	21	Good coverage
March	15.8°C	1.4°C	100 mm	8.2	11 h 50	35	Good coverage
April	22.5°C	6.5°C	90 mm	8.5	13 h 07	67	Good coverage
May	26.1°C	11.5°C	97 mm	9.6	14 h 11	72	Good coverage
June	29.7°C	16°C	99 mm	9.3	14 h 45	65	Good coverage
July	31.7°C	18.6°C	117 mm	9.4	14 h 31	51	Good coverage
August	30.7°C	17.7°C	76 mm	7	13 h 37	64	Good coverage
September	27°C	14°C	103 mm	7	12 h 23	75	Good coverage
October	21.4°C	7°C	67 mm	5.7	11 h 09	70	Good coverage
November	15.1°C	1.8°C	73 mm	6.6	10 h 05	38	Good coverage
December	9.7°C	-1.6°C	84 mm	7.1	9 h 34	12	Good coverage

Records at BUCHANAN, 1917–2013
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	29.4°C30 Jan 2002	-23.9°C21 Jan 1985	81 mm28 Jan 1998	224 mm1998 · driest 5 mm in 1981	84
February	28.3°C11 Feb 1932	-25.0°C5 Feb 1996	65 mm7 Feb 2004	205 mm1998 · driest 4 mm in 1968	85
March	32.2°C19 Mar 1945	-20.0°C8 Mar 1960	99 mm17 Mar 1936	248 mm1936 · driest 16 mm in 1925	85
April	37.2°C12 Apr 2001	-11.7°C6 Apr 1982	88 mm22 Apr 1992	206 mm1918 · driest 10 mm in 1942	85
May	37.2°C22 May 1941	-4.4°C5 May 1973	89 mm28 May 1973	301 mm2003 · driest 21 mm in 1918	85
June	38.9°C29 Jun 1934	1.7°C6 Jun 1945	83 mm23 Jun 1995	278 mm1995 · driest 19 mm in 1984	86
July	41.7°C14 Jul 1954	6.1°C23 Jul 1947	86 mm19 Jul 1954	224 mm1994 · driest 11 mm in 1932	86
August	40.0°C4 Aug 1930	5.0°C31 Aug 1976	123 mm16 Aug 1928	322 mm1940 · driest 22 mm in 1965	86
September	39.4°C2 Sep 1932	0.0°C29 Sep 1942	140 mm10 Sep 1950	297 mm1999 · driest 9 mm in 1933	85
October	37.2°C6 Oct 1941	-8.9°C27 Oct 1962	144 mm2 Oct 1929	277 mm1929 · driest 0 mm in 2000	85
November	30.6°C1 Nov 1950	-13.9°C28 Nov 1938	82 mm9 Nov 1996	203 mm1948 · driest 9 mm in 1917	86
December	26.7°C7 Dec 1998	-25.0°C30 Dec 1917	91 mm29 Dec 1958	190 mm1948 · driest 7 mm in 1965	86

Typical days per month at BUCHANAN, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	<1	0	22	3	1
February	<1	0	19	2	<1
March	3	<1	14	4	<1
April	11	3	3	3	<1
May	19	7	<1	4	0
June	26	16	0	3	0
July	30	23	0	4	0
August	28	20	0	3	0
September	21	7	0	3	0
October	7	<1	2	2	0
November	1	0	13	2	0
December	<1	0	21	3	1

How often, not how much — every day in BUCHANAN’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	3%	25%	9%	26%	5.2–11.8°C
February	7%	25%	9%	28%	7.3–14.0°C
March	21%	27%	11%	30%	12.2–18.8°C
April	49%	28%	10%	31%	19.2–23.8°C
May	65%	30%	11%	37%	24.0–28.6°C
June	69%	30%	12%	34%	27.7–31.2°C
July	67%	32%	13%	40%	29.4–33.1°C
August	71%	28%	11%	29%	28.8–32.3°C
September	74%	23%	9%	22%	25.0–30.0°C
October	57%	20%	9%	19%	19.5–23.7°C
November	19%	22%	8%	21%	12.8–17.7°C
December	4%	23%	9%	23%	6.3–12.4°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.

1918Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 81-year average. Warmest: 1990. Coolest: 1924.2012

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4746815
NOAA station: USC00441121 · BUCHANAN
Station distance: 18.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 16 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 37.65°, 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 BUCHANAN is what differs

Buchanan→Montvale→Alpine→Arcadia→Botetourt (historical)→Burkeston (historical)→

Or put two places side by side: Bessemer vs Buchanan

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