United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Salem.

September leads for comfortable weather in Salem: typically 25.2°C by day, 12.5°C at night, with 92 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high25.2°C

Typical low12.5°C

Rain in September92 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · June

79climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

68climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · September

71climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 79 — days reach only 4.3°C, 20° 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

54.3° / -5.7°

Feb

56.2° / -4.8°

Mar

1111.2° / -1.3°

Apr

4518.5° / 4°

May

6923.6° / 9.7°

Jun

6827.8° / 14.7°

Jul

5729.5° / 17.2°

Aug

6728.6° / 16.5°

Sep

7925.2° / 12.5°

Oct

5218.7° / 5.6°

Nov

2011.9° / -0.1°

Dec

56.6° / -3°

Monthly climate evidence for Salem — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	4.3°C	-5.7°C	90 mm	12	9 h 41	5	Strong coverage
February	6.2°C	-4.8°C	85 mm	10.7	10 h 39	5	Strong coverage
March	11.2°C	-1.3°C	108 mm	11	11 h 50	11	Strong coverage
April	18.5°C	4°C	104 mm	11.3	13 h 11	45	Strong coverage
May	23.6°C	9.7°C	124 mm	11.9	14 h 18	69	Strong coverage
June	27.8°C	14.7°C	122 mm	10.7	14 h 55	68	Strong coverage
July	29.5°C	17.2°C	137 mm	10.5	14 h 41	57	Strong coverage
August	28.6°C	16.5°C	102 mm	9	13 h 42	67	Strong coverage
September	25.2°C	12.5°C	92 mm	8.4	12 h 24	79	Strong coverage
October	18.7°C	5.6°C	90 mm	9.5	11 h 06	52	Strong coverage
November	11.9°C	-0.1°C	86 mm	9.7	9 h 58	20	Strong coverage
December	6.6°C	-3°C	98 mm	11.6	9 h 25	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Salem 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

+0.4

Feb

+1.9

Mar

+0.4

Apr

+0.8

May

+1.1

Jun

+0.6

Jul

+1.3

Aug

+0.5

Sep

+0.7

Oct

+0.6

Nov

-0.4

Dec

+2.1

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.9°C.

Records at CLARKSBURG 1, 1922–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	25.6°C1 Jan 1973	-31.1°C19 Jan 1994	54 mm11 Jan 1974	221 mm1937 · driest 19 mm in 1967	103
February	26.1°C25 Feb 2017	-30.6°C28 Feb 1934	71 mm9 Feb 1994	203 mm2018 · driest 13 mm in 2012	104
March	31.1°C26 Mar 1929	-27.8°C1 Mar 1934	72 mm4 Mar 1963	226 mm1963 · driest 27 mm in 1966	103
April	35.0°C25 Apr 1925	-13.9°C1 Apr 1923	61 mm16 Apr 2018	206 mm2011 · driest 30 mm in 2012	104
May	35.6°C27 May 1939	-5.0°C10 May 1947	73 mm17 May 1996	286 mm1996 · driest 12 mm in 1939	102
June	37.8°C5 Jun 1925	0.6°C6 Jun 1945	80 mm15 Jun 2022	266 mm1998 · driest 33 mm in 1973	102
July	38.9°C27 Jul 1934	5.0°C9 Jul 1963	63 mm31 Jul 1996	260 mm2017 · driest 21 mm in 1930	100
August	38.3°C4 Aug 1930	3.9°C29 Aug 1965	112 mm3 Aug 1935	269 mm1935 · driest 17 mm in 2002	102
September	38.9°C3 Sep 1953	-1.7°C29 Sep 1942	84 mm13 Sep 1971	323 mm1945 · driest 17 mm in 1985	102
October	34.4°C2 Oct 1927	-10.0°C22 Oct 1930	78 mm16 Oct 1954	216 mm1925 · driest 5 mm in 1924	102
November	29.4°C6 Nov 1948	-18.9°C29 Nov 1930	127 mm5 Nov 1985	285 mm1985 · driest 13 mm in 1953	102
December	25.6°C8 Dec 1951	-25.0°C21 Dec 1942	72 mm9 Dec 1978	235 mm1978 · driest 17 mm in 1925	103

Typical days per month at CLARKSBURG 1, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	24	3	5
February	<1	0	23	3	4
March	<1	0	19	4	2
April	6	<1	7	4	<1
May	14	4	<1	5	0
June	23	10	0	4	0
July	28	15	0	5	0
August	28	11	0	4	0
September	17	4	0	3	0
October	5	<1	4	3	0
November	<1	0	17	3	<1
December	0	0	23	3	3

How often, not how much — every day in CLARKSBURG 1’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	<1%	37%	9%	51%	1.0–8.3°C
February	2%	36%	9%	50%	2.4–9.9°C
March	10%	36%	10%	52%	7.7–15.3°C
April	28%	37%	11%	51%	15.6–20.8°C
May	51%	36%	13%	50%	21.2–26.3°C
June	64%	34%	13%	43%	26.0–29.7°C
July	66%	34%	13%	42%	27.9–31.5°C
August	70%	29%	12%	33%	26.9–30.5°C
September	65%	27%	10%	30%	23.4–28.0°C
October	37%	28%	8%	33%	17.0–21.6°C
November	10%	32%	9%	40%	9.7–14.7°C
December	<1%	35%	9%	50%	3.1–10.0°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.

1923Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 92-year average. Warmest: 2021. Coolest: 1963.2023

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4821203
NOAA station: USC00461677 · CLARKSBURG 1
Station distance: 17.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 39.28°, 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 CLARKSBURG 1 is what differs

Clarksburg→Stonewood→Nutter Fort→Despard→Lumberport→Anmoore→

Or put two places side by side: Salem vs Clarksburg

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