United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Independence.

September leads for comfortable weather in Independence: typically 23.9°C by day, 10.8°C at night, with 67 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high23.9°C

Typical low10.8°C

Rain in September67 mm

Comfort

September

September · August · June

84climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

64climate match

Outdoors

September

September · October · May

77climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 84 — days reach only -2.9°C, 27° 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

5-2.9° / -12.5°

Feb

50.4° / -9°

Mar

57° / -3.9°

Apr

3515.2° / 2.4°

May

6421.8° / 9.2°

Jun

6826.7° / 14.8°

Jul

6628.3° / 16.7°

Aug

7327.4° / 15.5°

Sep

8423.9° / 10.8°

Oct

5117° / 4.3°

Nov

67.2° / -2.7°

Dec

5-0.1° / -9.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Independence — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-2.9°C	-12.5°C	26 mm	5.2	9 h 23	5	Good coverage
February	0.4°C	-9°C	39 mm	5.3	10 h 29	5	Good coverage
March	7°C	-3.9°C	50 mm	6.1	11 h 48	5	Good coverage
April	15.2°C	2.4°C	95 mm	8.4	13 h 18	35	Good coverage
May	21.8°C	9.2°C	117 mm	10.5	14 h 35	64	Good coverage
June	26.7°C	14.8°C	153 mm	9.4	15 h 16	68	Good coverage
July	28.3°C	16.7°C	126 mm	8.1	15 h	66	Good coverage
August	27.4°C	15.5°C	116 mm	7.7	13 h 54	73	Good coverage
September	23.9°C	10.8°C	67 mm	6.4	12 h 26	84	Good coverage
October	17°C	4.3°C	58 mm	6.4	10 h 59	51	Good coverage
November	7.2°C	-2.7°C	61 mm	6.1	9 h 42	6	Good coverage
December	-0.1°C	-9.1°C	37 mm	6.1	9 h 05	5	Good coverage

Records at INDEPENDENCE #1, 1883–2009
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	16.1°C27 Jan 2002	-35.0°C16 Jan 2009	28 mm3 Jan 1886	94 mm1886 · driest 5 mm in 2002	31
February	18.9°C25 Feb 2000	-34.4°C2 Feb 1996	38 mm10 Feb 2001	167 mm2001 · driest 0 mm in 1987	30
March	30.0°C29 Mar 1986	-23.9°C4 Mar 2002	90 mm31 Mar 1998	146 mm1998 · driest 2 mm in 1994	33
April	32.2°C18 Apr 1994	-18.3°C6 Apr 1982	78 mm23 Apr 1989	205 mm2008 · driest 16 mm in 2004	33
May	33.9°C28 May 1991	-3.9°C4 May 2004	94 mm30 May 2008	269 mm2004 · driest 17 mm in 1988	32
June	37.8°C21 Jun 1988	2.2°C1 Jun 1993	91 mm2 Jun 2001	263 mm1998 · driest 13 mm in 1992	34
July	38.9°C31 Jul 1988	5.0°C7 Jul 1984	96 mm21 Jul 1999	320 mm1993 · driest 18 mm in 1998	34
August	38.3°C16 Aug 1988	2.2°C28 Aug 1986	154 mm20 Aug 2007	291 mm1981 · driest 3 mm in 2003	33
September	35.6°C2 Sep 1999	-3.3°C23 Sep 1983	191 mm23 Sep 1884	327 mm1887 · driest 1 mm in 2004	33
October	34.4°C3 Oct 1997	-9.4°C27 Oct 1997	62 mm13 Oct 1997	155 mm1998 · driest 4 mm in 2005	33
November	26.1°C13 Nov 1999	-25.6°C28 Nov 1887	107 mm4 Nov 2003	136 mm1991 · driest 6 mm in 2002	33
December	19.4°C5 Dec 1998	-31.7°C19 Dec 1985	38 mm24 Dec 1999	87 mm2000 · driest 3 mm in 1995	31

Typical days per month at INDEPENDENCE #1, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	30	<1	6
February	0	0	25	1	5
March	<1	0	24	2	3
April	2	<1	10	3	1
May	9	2	<1	4	0
June	20	8	0	5	0
July	27	10	0	4	0
August	24	7	0	3	0
September	14	4	<1	3	0
October	3	<1	7	2	<1
November	<1	0	21	2	2
December	0	0	29	<1	5

How often, not how much — every day in INDEPENDENCE #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	0%	15%	3%	8%	-8.6–2.0°C
February	0%	16%	3%	11%	-4.3–4.3°C
March	5%	20%	6%	17%	2.4–8.9°C
April	19%	24%	9%	24%	12.4–17.5°C
May	44%	28%	12%	33%	18.3–24.6°C
June	66%	28%	14%	31%	24.1–28.5°C
July	75%	24%	12%	22%	26.4–30.2°C
August	75%	22%	10%	19%	24.2–29.9°C
September	58%	23%	10%	23%	19.7–25.7°C
October	25%	18%	7%	14%	13.5–18.7°C
November	3%	17%	5%	13%	3.2–10.9°C
December	0%	16%	4%	10%	-5.5–2.9°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.

1885Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 27-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1885.2008

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4861620
NOAA station: USC00134049 · INDEPENDENCE #1
Station distance: 6.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 16 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 42.47°, 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 INDEPENDENCE #1 is what differs

Jesup→Winthrop→Quasqueton→Rowley→Ben Haven Mobile Home Park→Bryantsburg→

Or put two places side by side: Independence vs Jesup

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September

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Independence.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.