United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Atlanta.

September leads for comfortable weather in Atlanta: typically 26.2°C by day, 11.7°C at night, with 94 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high26.2°C

Typical low11.7°C

Rain in September94 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · August

75climate match

Beach

August

August · June · July

73climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · September

74climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 75 — days reach only 1.3°C, 23° 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

51.3° / -8.3°

Feb

54° / -6.2°

Mar

1810.8° / -0.9°

Apr

4417.9° / 4.6°

May

7323.8° / 11.1°

Jun

6828.4° / 16.3°

Jul

5929.7° / 17.6°

Aug

7028.9° / 16.2°

Sep

7526.2° / 11.7°

Oct

5419.1° / 5.3°

Nov

1910.8° / -0.3°

Dec

54° / -5.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Atlanta — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	1.3°C	-8.3°C	60 mm	7.2	9 h 36	5	Strong coverage
February	4°C	-6.2°C	51 mm	6.6	10 h 36	5	Strong coverage
March	10.8°C	-0.9°C	70 mm	8.3	11 h 49	18	Strong coverage
April	17.9°C	4.6°C	108 mm	10.5	13 h 13	44	Strong coverage
May	23.8°C	11.1°C	122 mm	10.6	14 h 23	73	Strong coverage
June	28.4°C	16.3°C	108 mm	8.5	15 h 01	68	Strong coverage
July	29.7°C	17.6°C	128 mm	8.1	14 h 46	59	Strong coverage
August	28.9°C	16.2°C	90 mm	7	13 h 46	70	Strong coverage
September	26.2°C	11.7°C	94 mm	7.1	12 h 24	75	Strong coverage
October	19.1°C	5.3°C	88 mm	8.3	11 h 04	54	Strong coverage
November	10.8°C	-0.3°C	75 mm	7.6	9 h 53	19	Strong coverage
December	4°C	-5.1°C	61 mm	7.5	9 h 19	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Atlanta runs +0.4°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

+1.3

Feb

+1.0

Mar

+1.2

Apr

-0.2

May

+0.2

Jun

-0.2

Jul

-0.9

Aug

-0.4

Sep

+0.8

Oct

+0.3

Nov

-0.1

Dec

+2.0

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 28.4°C.

Records at LINCOLN, 1906–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	21.1°C24 Jan 1950	-36.7°C15 Jan 1927	69 mm7 Jan 2008	158 mm1949 · driest 1 mm in 1986	117
February	25.6°C27 Feb 2024	-30.6°C27 Feb 1934	86 mm22 Feb 2023	122 mm2018 · driest 2 mm in 2026	118
March	32.8°C26 Mar 2026	-25.6°C10 Mar 1934	89 mm11 Mar 1939	181 mm1973 · driest 12 mm in 1910	117
April	33.9°C11 Apr 1930	-18.3°C2 Apr 2018	101 mm30 Apr 1998	264 mm1957 · driest 14 mm in 1971	120
May	38.9°C31 May 1934	-4.4°C10 May 1966	133 mm12 May 1914	323 mm1995 · driest 19 mm in 1934	117
June	40.6°C1 Jun 1934	1.7°C11 Jun 1913	120 mm28 Jun 1951	274 mm2010 · driest 11 mm in 1936	119
July	45.0°C15 Jul 1936	5.0°C15 Jul 1930	121 mm10 Jul 2003	405 mm1992 · driest 14 mm in 1940	120
August	41.1°C9 Aug 1934	2.2°C31 Aug 1915	94 mm16 Aug 2002	218 mm2002 · driest 8 mm in 1943	118
September	40.0°C6 Sep 1954	-5.6°C26 Sep 1928	90 mm20 Sep 1986	363 mm1911 · driest 4 mm in 1940	117
October	35.0°C2 Oct 1953	-13.9°C30 Oct 1925	95 mm3 Oct 1991	281 mm1941 · driest 6 mm in 1964	119
November	28.3°C1 Nov 1950	-19.4°C28 Nov 1930	64 mm2 Nov 1936	192 mm1992 · driest 1 mm in 1933	118
December	22.2°C29 Dec 1984	-33.9°C26 Dec 1914	132 mm3 Dec 1982	242 mm1982 · driest 5 mm in 1958	117

Typical days per month at LINCOLN, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	28	2	5
February	0	0	24	2	4
March	1	0	19	2	2
April	4	<1	6	3	<1
May	14	5	<1	4	0
June	25	12	0	4	0
July	29	16	0	3	0
August	28	12	0	3	0
September	19	7	<1	3	0
October	7	1	6	3	0
November	<1	0	16	2	<1
December	0	0	25	2	4

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 83); on 2011–2025 it is May (85). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in LINCOLN’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%	22%	5%	19%	-2.0–5.3°C
February	<1%	21%	5%	20%	-0.1–7.4°C
March	9%	27%	9%	32%	6.9–14.8°C
April	28%	32%	11%	40%	15.5–20.8°C
May	55%	31%	12%	37%	21.1–26.7°C
June	71%	28%	12%	31%	26.6–31.1°C
July	77%	23%	10%	21%	28.5–33.3°C
August	76%	23%	10%	23%	27.6–31.8°C
September	71%	24%	10%	24%	24.1–28.6°C
October	41%	24%	9%	25%	17.1–22.5°C
November	8%	23%	7%	22%	7.6–13.6°C
December	<1%	23%	6%	23%	0.2–7.2°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.

1910Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 108-year average. Warmest: 1921. Coolest: 2014.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4883772
NOAA station: USC00115079 · LINCOLN
Station distance: 14.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 40.26°, 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 LINCOLN is what differs

Lincoln→Clinton→Richmond→Mount Pulaski→Emden→Waynesville→

Or put two places side by side: Atlanta vs Lincoln

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