United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Newport News.

May leads for comfortable weather in Newport News: typically 25.2°C by day, 15.8°C at night, with 91 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high25.2°C

Typical low15.8°C

Rain in May91 mm

Comfort

May

May · October · April

81climate match

Beach

June

June · September · August

81climate match

Outdoors

April

April · October · November

81climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 21 against May’s 81 — days reach only 10.1°C, 14° 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

2110.1° / 1.5°

Feb

2911.8° / 2.5°

Mar

4215.4° / 5.8°

Apr

7221.1° / 10.8°

May

8125.2° / 15.8°

Jun

5829.5° / 20.6°

Jul

4231.9° / 23.2°

Aug

4930.5° / 22.4°

Sep

6527.5° / 19.9°

Oct

8122.2° / 13.7°

Nov

5216.6° / 7.6°

Dec

3312.5° / 4.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Newport News — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 32 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	10.1°C	1.5°C	71 mm	7.3	6.4°C	9 h 53	21	Strong coverage
February	11.8°C	2.5°C	67 mm	6.9	5.1°C	10 h 46	29	Strong coverage
March	15.4°C	5.8°C	89 mm	8.6	7.4°C	11 h 51	42	Strong coverage
April	21.1°C	10.8°C	81 mm	8	12.0°C	13 h 05	72	Strong coverage
May	25.2°C	15.8°C	91 mm	9.1	17.0°C	14 h 07	81	Strong coverage
June	29.5°C	20.6°C	100 mm	7.9	22.2°C	14 h 41	58	Strong coverage
July	31.9°C	23.2°C	123 mm	8.5	25.4°C	14 h 28	42	Strong coverage
August	30.5°C	22.4°C	123 mm	7.7	25.9°C	13 h 34	49	Strong coverage
September	27.5°C	19.9°C	113 mm	7.1	24.2°C	12 h 22	65	Strong coverage
October	22.2°C	13.7°C	90 mm	6.2	19.8°C	11 h 11	81	Strong coverage
November	16.6°C	7.6°C	83 mm	6.6	14.0°C	10 h 08	52	Strong coverage
December	12.5°C	4.1°C	74 mm	7	9.6°C	9 h 38	33	Strong coverage

What has changed

Newport News runs +1.6°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

+2.0

Feb

+2.8

Mar

+1.8

Apr

+2.2

May

+1.5

Jun

+1.3

Jul

+1.5

Aug

+0.5

Sep

+1.0

Oct

+1.5

Nov

+0.5

Dec

+2.4

May daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.4°C.

Records at NORFOLK NAS, 1945–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.9°C30 Jan 2013	-18.3°C21 Jan 1985	83 mm4 Jan 1992	226 mm1987 · driest 0 mm in 2020	78
February	27.8°C24 Feb 1975	-12.2°C5 Feb 1996	116 mm4 Feb 1998	206 mm1998 · driest 16 mm in 2017	78
March	32.2°C12 Mar 1990	-7.2°C9 Mar 1996	93 mm2 Mar 1994	257 mm1994 · driest 11 mm in 1946	79
April	34.4°C6 Apr 2010	-1.7°C2 Apr 1964	135 mm20 Apr 1991	170 mm1983 · driest 12 mm in 1976	79
May	37.8°C31 May 1991	2.8°C11 May 1966	91 mm23 May 2005	236 mm1979 · driest 16 mm in 1986	79
June	38.9°C7 Jun 2008	8.3°C2 Jun 1967	132 mm2 Jun 1963	244 mm1963 · driest 10 mm in 1954	79
July	40.6°C25 Jul 2010	14.4°C7 Jul 1978	165 mm28 Jul 1973	309 mm1969 · driest 14 mm in 2006	78
August	38.9°C20 Aug 1983	11.1°C30 Aug 1982	163 mm31 Aug 1964	327 mm1992 · driest 20 mm in 2008	79
September	37.8°C7 Sep 1954	10.0°C25 Sep 1990	235 mm30 Sep 2010	463 mm1979 · driest 2 mm in 2019	78
October	35.6°C9 Oct 2007	-1.6°C14 Oct 2011	210 mm8 Oct 2016	272 mm2016 · driest 3 mm in 2024	78
November	29.4°C6 Nov 2018	-6.1°C26 Nov 1950	150 mm12 Nov 2020	247 mm2009 · driest 2 mm in 2001	79
December	27.8°C24 Dec 2015	-12.8°C25 Dec 1983	67 mm10 Dec 1987	168 mm1973 · driest 12 mm in 1988	77

Typical days per month at NORFOLK NAS, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	<1	0	13	2	2
February	<1	0	9	2	<1
March	3	<1	3	3	0
April	9	2	0	3	0
May	17	7	0	3	0
June	26	15	0	3	0
July	30	22	0	4	0
August	30	18	0	4	0
September	24	8	0	3	0
October	9	2	0	2	0
November	2	0	1	3	0
December	<1	0	7	2	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was May (scoring 93); on 2011–2025 it is October (87). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in NORFOLK NAS’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	5%	25%	9%	25%	6.5–12.9°C
February	9%	27%	10%	29%	7.4–13.8°C
March	19%	27%	10%	27%	11.7–17.8°C
April	39%	26%	8%	27%	18.2–22.6°C
May	60%	28%	9%	33%	22.4–26.9°C
June	74%	25%	10%	24%	27.0–30.7°C
July	72%	28%	12%	32%	29.3–32.6°C
August	74%	26%	11%	27%	28.3–31.6°C
September	76%	22%	9%	21%	25.4–28.5°C
October	52%	19%	7%	17%	19.6–23.2°C
November	22%	21%	8%	17%	13.9–18.9°C
December	8%	23%	8%	23%	8.0–15.0°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.

1946Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 72-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 1963.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4776024
NOAA station: USW00013750 · NORFOLK NAS
Station distance: 13.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 36.98°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 32 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
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 NORFOLK NAS is what differs

Algonquin Park→Arbor Meadows→Arbor Meadows→Armistead Forest→Bay View Beach→Belleville→

Or put two places side by side: Newport News vs Algonquin Park

Best time to visitNewport News.

May

June

April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Newport News runs +1.6°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Newport News.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Newport News runs +1.6°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.