United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Clifton.

September leads for comfortable weather in Clifton: typically 25.9°C by day, 14.8°C at night, with 112 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high25.9°C

Typical low14.8°C

Rain in September112 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · June

79climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

78climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · May

84climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 79 — days reach only 6.9°C, 17° below 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

56.9° / -3.6°

Feb

128.8° / -2.4°

Mar

2913.1° / 1.3°

Apr

5919.5° / 6.9°

May

7823.6° / 12.1°

Jun

6528.1° / 17°

Jul

5530.3° / 19.4°

Aug

6529.4° / 18.5°

Sep

7925.9° / 14.8°

Oct

6520.1° / 8°

Nov

3614.1° / 2.6°

Dec

118.9° / -1.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Clifton — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	6.9°C	-3.6°C	69 mm	7	9 h 46	5	Strong coverage
February	8.8°C	-2.4°C	62 mm	6.4	10 h 42	12	Strong coverage
March	13.1°C	1.3°C	85 mm	7.4	11 h 50	29	Strong coverage
April	19.5°C	6.9°C	85 mm	8.1	13 h 08	59	Strong coverage
May	23.6°C	12.1°C	100 mm	9.8	14 h 13	78	Strong coverage
June	28.1°C	17°C	122 mm	9	14 h 49	65	Strong coverage
July	30.3°C	19.4°C	113 mm	8.8	14 h 35	55	Strong coverage
August	29.4°C	18.5°C	87 mm	7.3	13 h 39	65	Strong coverage
September	25.9°C	14.8°C	112 mm	7.2	12 h 23	79	Strong coverage
October	20.1°C	8°C	85 mm	6.1	11 h 08	65	Strong coverage
November	14.1°C	2.6°C	81 mm	6.2	10 h 03	36	Strong coverage
December	8.9°C	-1.5°C	75 mm	6.7	9 h 31	11	Strong coverage

What has changed

Clifton runs +0.8°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

+0.9

Feb

+2.2

Mar

+0.7

Apr

+0.9

May

+0.3

Jun

+0.4

Jul

+1.0

Aug

0.0

Sep

+0.5

Oct

+0.9

Nov

-0.1

Dec

+1.6

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 27.8°C.

Records at PIEDMONT RSCH STN, 1946–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	27.2°C31 Jan 2002	-22.8°C21 Jan 1970	75 mm10 Jan 2024	221 mm1978 · driest 0 mm in 2025	80
February	27.2°C24 Feb 2023	-23.9°C5 Feb 1996	59 mm8 Feb 1965	191 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 2025	80
March	31.7°C23 Mar 2026	-15.6°C4 Mar 2014	70 mm6 Mar 1962	213 mm1993 · driest 1 mm in 2025	80
April	34.4°C24 Apr 1960	-7.8°C10 Apr 1985	70 mm13 Apr 2020	202 mm1983 · driest 7 mm in 2019	79
May	36.1°C19 May 2026	-2.2°C9 May 1947	119 mm6 May 1989	262 mm1971 · driest 14 mm in 2021	80
June	38.9°C27 Jun 1952	5.0°C1 Jun 1966	199 mm22 Jun 1972	325 mm1972 · driest 11 mm in 2026	79
July	41.1°C1 Jul 1959	8.3°C1 Jul 1988	118 mm24 Jul 1997	252 mm1997 · driest 19 mm in 2023	79
August	39.4°C30 Aug 1953	6.7°C29 Aug 1986	122 mm28 Aug 1978	338 mm1955 · driest 13 mm in 1995	79
September	41.1°C6 Sep 1954	0.6°C25 Sep 1963	126 mm9 Sep 1987	283 mm1987 · driest 12 mm in 2007	79
October	36.7°C7 Oct 1951	-5.6°C30 Oct 1952	133 mm15 Oct 1954	307 mm1976 · driest 0 mm in 1963	79
November	30.0°C1 Nov 1950	-12.8°C29 Nov 1955	139 mm28 Nov 1993	307 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 2023	80
December	26.1°C6 Dec 2001	-20.0°C23 Dec 1989	113 mm21 Dec 1946	205 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 2024	80

Typical days per month at PIEDMONT RSCH STN, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	24	2	3
February	<1	0	21	2	3
March	2	<1	14	3	1
April	7	1	2	3	0
May	14	4	<1	3	0
June	24	11	0	4	0
July	29	18	0	4	0
August	29	14	0	2	0
September	19	6	0	3	0
October	6	<1	1	3	0
November	<1	0	10	3	<1
December	<1	0	21	2	2

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 84); on 2011–2025 it is May (87). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in PIEDMONT RSCH STN’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	2%	23%	8%	22%	3.8–10.3°C
February	4%	24%	8%	24%	5.4–12.0°C
March	15%	25%	10%	27%	10.3–16.4°C
April	39%	27%	9%	32%	17.4–22.2°C
May	59%	31%	11%	38%	22.1–26.4°C
June	72%	27%	11%	30%	26.7–30.2°C
July	71%	29%	12%	33%	28.8–32.6°C
August	75%	25%	10%	24%	27.8–31.2°C
September	73%	22%	9%	20%	24.5–28.5°C
October	49%	19%	9%	19%	18.4–22.8°C
November	16%	23%	9%	19%	11.8–16.8°C
December	3%	21%	8%	20%	6.2–11.6°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.

1947Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 77-year average. Warmest: 1953. Coolest: 2014.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4753149
NOAA station: USC00446712 · PIEDMONT RSCH STN
Station distance: 10.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 38.28°, 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 PIEDMONT RSCH STN is what differs

Orange→Gordonsville→Woodberry Forest→Bledsoe Corner→Burnt Tree→Burr Hill→

Or put two places side by side: Clifton vs Orange

Best time to visitClifton.

September

August

October

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Clifton runs +0.8°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Clifton.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Clifton runs +0.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.