United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Alfred.

August leads for comfortable weather in Alfred: typically 27.3°C by day, 14.5°C at night, with 100 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high27.3°C

Typical low14.5°C

Rain in August100 mm

Comfort

August

August · September · June

75climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

62climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · June

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 75 — days reach only 0.3°C, 24° 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

50.3° / -10.5°

Feb

52.3° / -9.7°

Mar

56.8° / -4.9°

Apr

2714.2° / 1°

May

5920.2° / 6.8°

Jun

7425° / 12.1°

Jul

7227.8° / 15.3°

Aug

7527.3° / 14.5°

Sep

7523.1° / 10.2°

Oct

3616.2° / 3.8°

Nov

79.4° / -1.1°

Dec

53.3° / -6.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Alfred — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 30 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	0.3°C	-10.5°C	94 mm	9	5.5°C	9 h 17	5	Strong coverage
February	2.3°C	-9.7°C	90 mm	7.3	4.1°C	10 h 25	5	Strong coverage
March	6.8°C	-4.9°C	118 mm	8.4	3.6°C	11 h 47	5	Strong coverage
April	14.2°C	1°C	109 mm	8.6	5.4°C	13 h 21	27	Strong coverage
May	20.2°C	6.8°C	94 mm	9.6	9.1°C	14 h 40	59	Strong coverage
June	25°C	12.1°C	116 mm	9.9	13.4°C	15 h 24	74	Strong coverage
July	27.8°C	15.3°C	102 mm	8.9	16.9°C	15 h 07	72	Strong coverage
August	27.3°C	14.5°C	100 mm	7.6	17.9°C	13 h 58	75	Strong coverage
September	23.1°C	10.2°C	103 mm	7.5	16.0°C	12 h 27	75	Strong coverage
October	16.2°C	3.8°C	132 mm	8.5	12.5°C	10 h 56	36	Strong coverage
November	9.4°C	-1.1°C	113 mm	8.8	9.5°C	9 h 37	7	Strong coverage
December	3.3°C	-6.5°C	119 mm	9.6	7.4°C	8 h 58	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Alfred 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

0.0

Feb

-0.2

Mar

-0.9

Apr

-0.8

May

-1.6

Jun

-1.5

Jul

-0.1

Aug

-0.2

Sep

+0.6

Oct

-0.1

Nov

+0.6

Dec

+1.4

August daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 27.9°C.

Records at SANFORD 2 NNW, 1953–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	20.0°C6 Jan 2007	-33.3°C18 Jan 1957	63 mm10 Jan 2024	269 mm1979 · driest 12 mm in 2004	73
February	23.3°C23 Feb 2018	-31.7°C13 Feb 1967	84 mm25 Feb 1977	269 mm1981 · driest 1 mm in 1987	73
March	31.1°C31 Mar 1998	-25.0°C19 Mar 1967	86 mm15 Mar 2010	410 mm2010 · driest 23 mm in 1965	72
April	33.3°C27 Apr 1962	-16.1°C4 Apr 1954	89 mm10 Apr 1980	231 mm2004 · driest 12 mm in 2012	71
May	36.1°C19 May 1962	-6.1°C18 May 1985	111 mm14 May 2006	395 mm2006 · driest 7 mm in 1959	71
June	37.2°C27 Jun 2025	-0.6°C3 Jun 1986	115 mm3 Jun 2012	347 mm1998 · driest 22 mm in 1979	72
July	36.7°C20 Jul 1991	3.3°C3 Jul 1962	71 mm10 Jul 2021	332 mm2021 · driest 23 mm in 1968	71
August	38.3°C2 Aug 1975	-0.6°C30 Aug 1965	120 mm19 Aug 1991	325 mm1991 · driest 7 mm in 2001	72
September	35.0°C8 Sep 1960	-5.6°C30 Sep 2018	178 mm12 Sep 1960	306 mm1999 · driest 12 mm in 2020	72
October	31.7°C7 Oct 1963	-11.1°C31 Oct 1966	208 mm21 Oct 1996	421 mm2005 · driest 7 mm in 1994	73
November	25.0°C6 Nov 2022	-18.3°C24 Nov 1989	98 mm2 Nov 1988	357 mm1983 · driest 17 mm in 1976	73
December	22.8°C7 Dec 1998	-28.9°C31 Dec 1963	74 mm21 Dec 1993	259 mm1969 · driest 20 mm in 1980	72

Typical days per month at SANFORD 2 NNW, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	30	4	4
February	0	0	27	3	3
March	<1	0	26	4	2
April	2	<1	14	4	<1
May	6	2	2	3	0
June	16	5	0	4	0
July	25	9	0	4	0
August	24	7	0	3	0
September	11	2	<1	3	0
October	2	0	8	4	0
November	0	0	19	4	<1
December	0	0	28	4	3

How often, not how much — every day in SANFORD 2 NNW’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	0%	28%	10%	30%	-2.4–2.6°C
February	<1%	27%	11%	29%	-0.6–5.0°C
March	2%	28%	12%	32%	4.4–9.5°C
April	13%	30%	12%	36%	12.0–16.2°C
May	45%	32%	11%	38%	18.3–23.8°C
June	64%	32%	11%	38%	23.1–27.6°C
July	72%	28%	11%	32%	26.5–29.8°C
August	74%	26%	9%	26%	25.8–28.8°C
September	60%	24%	10%	27%	21.3–24.6°C
October	22%	26%	11%	29%	14.5–18.3°C
November	3%	30%	14%	37%	6.8–11.9°C
December	<1%	30%	13%	35%	0.1–5.8°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.

1954Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 65-year average. Warmest: 2010. Coolest: 1962.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4832342
NOAA station: USC00177479 · SANFORD 2 NNW
Station distance: 5.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 43.48°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 30 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 SANFORD 2 NNW is what differs

Sanford→Waterboro→Lebanon→Wakefield→South Sanford→Springvale→

Or put two places side by side: Alfred vs Sanford

Best time to visitAlfred.

August

July

May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Alfred runs -0.2°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Alfred.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Alfred runs -0.2°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.