United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Bowsher.

September leads for comfortable weather in Bowsher: typically 25.1°C by day, 10.7°C at night, with 85 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high25.1°C

Typical low10.7°C

Rain in September85 mm

Comfort

September

September · August · June

78climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

69climate match

Outdoors

October

October · September · May

73climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 78 — days reach only -1.2°C, 25° 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

5-1.2° / -11.6°

Feb

51.5° / -9.5°

Mar

138.8° / -3.2°

Apr

3716.1° / 2.6°

May

6422.2° / 9.4°

Jun

6727.7° / 15.3°

Jul

6129.8° / 17.4°

Aug

6828.7° / 15.9°

Sep

7825.1° / 10.7°

Oct

5217.8° / 4°

Nov

169° / -2.3°

Dec

51.6° / -8.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Bowsher — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-1.2°C	-11.6°C	22 mm	4.1	9 h 28	5	Strong coverage
February	1.5°C	-9.5°C	22 mm	4.2	10 h 32	5	Strong coverage
March	8.8°C	-3.2°C	49 mm	5.8	11 h 48	13	Strong coverage
April	16.1°C	2.6°C	100 mm	8.9	13 h 16	37	Strong coverage
May	22.2°C	9.4°C	130 mm	10.7	14 h 30	64	Strong coverage
June	27.7°C	15.3°C	138 mm	8.9	15 h 11	67	Strong coverage
July	29.8°C	17.4°C	114 mm	7.4	14 h 55	61	Strong coverage
August	28.7°C	15.9°C	110 mm	7.8	13 h 51	68	Strong coverage
September	25.1°C	10.7°C	85 mm	7	12 h 25	78	Strong coverage
October	17.8°C	4°C	66 mm	6.5	11 h 01	52	Strong coverage
November	9°C	-2.3°C	45 mm	5.3	9 h 47	16	Strong coverage
December	1.6°C	-8.4°C	31 mm	4.9	9 h 10	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Bowsher runs +0.6°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

+1.6

Feb

-0.3

Mar

+1.9

Apr

-1.0

May

-0.6

Jun

+0.5

Jul

-0.1

Aug

+0.1

Sep

+1.4

Oct

-0.3

Nov

+0.9

Dec

+2.8

September daytime highs, 2011–2020. Last recorded: 24.4°C.

Records at ANKENY, 1950–2021
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	19.4°C6 Jan 2012	-33.3°C16 Jan 2009	57 mm1 Jan 1995	71 mm1995 · driest 1 mm in 1991	68
February	23.3°C18 Feb 2017	-36.7°C3 Feb 1996	40 mm21 Feb 1976	66 mm1961 · driest 0 mm in 1968	70
March	32.2°C29 Mar 1986	-30.6°C1 Mar 1962	64 mm13 Mar 1990	200 mm1990 · driest 3 mm in 1994	69
April	33.9°C22 Apr 1980	-13.3°C6 Apr 1982	114 mm30 Apr 1986	208 mm1986 · driest 8 mm in 1985	67
May	37.2°C11 May 2011	-3.3°C3 May 2005	67 mm11 May 1970	228 mm2013 · driest 27 mm in 1992	67
June	38.9°C21 Jun 1988	4.4°C1 Jun 1993	133 mm20 Jun 1954	363 mm2010 · driest 21 mm in 2006	67
July	40.6°C20 Jul 2011	5.6°C25 Jul 2002	100 mm28 Jul 2008	283 mm1993 · driest 13 mm in 1974	68
August	41.1°C16 Aug 1983	3.9°C20 Aug 1950	117 mm28 Aug 1977	348 mm2010 · driest 5 mm in 2003	68
September	37.8°C10 Sep 2013	-5.6°C21 Sep 1999	100 mm7 Sep 2007	199 mm1961 · driest 0 mm in 1989	70
October	34.4°C5 Oct 1963	-15.0°C24 Oct 1999	74 mm7 Oct 2017	175 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 1952	70
November	28.3°C1 Nov 1968	-21.7°C8 Nov 1991	52 mm4 Nov 2003	150 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1954	70
December	21.1°C28 Dec 1984	-31.7°C23 Dec 1989	63 mm14 Dec 2015	137 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1976	70

Typical days per month at ANKENY, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	29	<1	4
February	0	0	26	<1	4
March	<1	0	22	2	2
April	3	<1	9	3	<1
May	11	2	<1	4	<1
June	23	10	0	4	0
July	28	15	0	3	0
August	26	12	0	3	0
September	16	6	<1	3	0
October	5	<1	8	2	<1
November	<1	0	20	1	<1
December	0	0	28	<1	4

How often, not how much — every day in ANKENY’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%	12%	2%	8%	-5.7–2.2°C
February	<1%	14%	2%	8%	-3.4–6.1°C
March	7%	20%	6%	18%	3.2–11.9°C
April	26%	27%	9%	31%	12.8–19.6°C
May	50%	31%	13%	38%	20.1–25.5°C
June	69%	30%	13%	33%	25.5–29.7°C
July	76%	24%	11%	24%	27.8–32.1°C
August	76%	24%	11%	26%	27.0–30.8°C
September	65%	23%	8%	24%	22.2–27.2°C
October	35%	20%	7%	19%	14.9–20.8°C
November	6%	16%	4%	11%	4.8–12.1°C
December	<1%	14%	2%	10%	-2.1–4.6°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.

1951Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 59-year average. Warmest: 1987. Coolest: 1996.2020

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4849141
NOAA station: USC00130241 · ANKENY
Station distance: 13.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 41.64°, 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.

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