United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Lima.

September leads for comfortable weather in Lima: typically 25.6°C by day, 13°C at night, with 88 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high25.6°C

Typical low13°C

Rain in September88 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · May

81climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

76climate match

Outdoors

October

October · September · April

77climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 81 — days reach only 1.4°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

51.4° / -8.3°

Feb

54.1° / -6.4°

Mar

2110.7° / -0.9°

Apr

4517.5° / 5.2°

May

6722.8° / 11.6°

Jun

6827.8° / 17°

Jul

6029.9° / 19°

Aug

6529.1° / 17.8°

Sep

8125.6° / 13°

Oct

5718.9° / 6.4°

Nov

2311° / 0°

Dec

54.2° / -5.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Lima — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	1.4°C	-8.3°C	40 mm	4.4	9 h 36	5	Strong coverage
February	4.1°C	-6.4°C	45 mm	5.6	10 h 37	5	Strong coverage
March	10.7°C	-0.9°C	62 mm	6.5	11 h 49	21	Strong coverage
April	17.5°C	5.2°C	104 mm	9.5	13 h 13	45	Strong coverage
May	22.8°C	11.6°C	146 mm	10.8	14 h 23	67	Strong coverage
June	27.8°C	17°C	118 mm	8.2	15 h 01	68	Strong coverage
July	29.9°C	19°C	99 mm	7.7	14 h 46	60	Strong coverage
August	29.1°C	17.8°C	104 mm	6.8	13 h 45	65	Strong coverage
September	25.6°C	13°C	88 mm	5.5	12 h 24	81	Strong coverage
October	18.9°C	6.4°C	89 mm	6.7	11 h 04	57	Strong coverage
November	11°C	0°C	68 mm	6.3	9 h 54	23	Strong coverage
December	4.2°C	-5.3°C	46 mm	5.2	9 h 19	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Lima 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

-0.1

Feb

0.0

Mar

+0.6

Apr

-1.1

May

-1.2

Jun

-0.8

Jul

-1.9

Aug

-1.2

Sep

+0.4

Oct

-0.6

Nov

-0.5

Dec

+2.0

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

Records at CANTON L&D 20, 1937–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	22.2°C24 Jan 1950	-28.9°C11 Jan 1982	77 mm2 Jan 1965	206 mm1965 · driest 2 mm in 1986	89
February	26.7°C28 Feb 2024	-28.9°C9 Feb 1979	57 mm20 Feb 2018	104 mm2008 · driest 1 mm in 2026	88
March	31.7°C30 Mar 1986	-23.3°C5 Mar 1978	111 mm4 Mar 1985	181 mm1973 · driest 10 mm in 1956	89
April	35.0°C26 Apr 1986	-10.0°C2 Apr 2018	105 mm18 Apr 2013	223 mm2024 · driest 19 mm in 1971	89
May	37.8°C22 May 1988	-1.1°C4 May 2005	137 mm27 May 1973	332 mm1991 · driest 14 mm in 2023	88
June	39.4°C15 Jun 1987	5.6°C3 Jun 1946	114 mm14 Jun 1990	401 mm2011 · driest 7 mm in 1992	89
July	43.3°C30 Jul 1980	9.4°C14 Jul 1975	127 mm31 Jul 1985	298 mm2010 · driest 16 mm in 1975	88
August	42.2°C19 Aug 1988	6.1°C20 Aug 1950	127 mm8 Aug 1943	376 mm1970 · driest 0 mm in 2013	88
September	40.0°C6 Sep 1990	-2.8°C28 Sep 1942	167 mm20 Sep 1986	461 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 2017	89
October	36.1°C7 Oct 1939	-7.8°C29 Oct 1952	123 mm5 Oct 1955	269 mm1941 · driest 4 mm in 1964	89
November	27.8°C11 Nov 1949	-22.2°C30 Nov 1964	77 mm30 Nov 2006	225 mm1985 · driest 5 mm in 1959	89
December	23.9°C4 Dec 2012	-27.8°C23 Dec 1989	78 mm10 Dec 2003	134 mm1982 · driest 2 mm in 1996	88

Typical days per month at CANTON L&D 20, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	28	1	2
February	0	0	24	1	2
March	1	0	18	2	<1
April	4	<1	5	4	<1
May	12	2	<1	4	0
June	24	10	0	4	0
July	28	16	0	3	0
August	28	13	0	3	0
September	17	6	0	3	0
October	5	<1	3	3	0
November	<1	0	16	2	<1
December	0	0	25	2	1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was May (scoring 85); on 2011–2025 it is September (84). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in CANTON L&D 20’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%	17%	4%	13%	-1.8–5.4°C
February	1%	19%	4%	15%	-0.2–8.0°C
March	10%	24%	8%	26%	7.3–14.3°C
April	28%	30%	11%	38%	14.9–20.8°C
May	54%	31%	12%	38%	20.6–26.2°C
June	71%	27%	12%	31%	26.0–30.6°C
July	76%	23%	10%	22%	28.6–33.2°C
August	79%	21%	9%	19%	27.8–31.6°C
September	73%	21%	10%	20%	23.8–28.3°C
October	44%	20%	8%	20%	17.5–22.6°C
November	10%	20%	7%	19%	8.0–14.2°C
December	<1%	18%	5%	16%	0.8–7.5°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.

1939Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 82-year average. Warmest: 1990. Coolest: 2014.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4899801
NOAA station: USC00231275 · CANTON L&D 20
Station distance: 12.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 40.18°, 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 CANTON L&D 20 is what differs

Canton→La Grange→Ursa→Monticello→Marcelline→Meyer→

Or put two places side by side: Lima vs Canton

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