United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
North Amherst.

September leads for comfortable weather in North Amherst: typically 23.7°C by day, 10.2°C at night, with 118 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember
Typical high23.7°C
Typical low10.2°C
Rain in September118 mm
Comfort

September

September · June · August

75climate match
Beach

July

July · August · June

65climate match
Outdoors

May

May · September · October

74climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 75days reach only 1.4°C, 23° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -10°C.

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° / -10°
Feb
53° / -9.2°
Mar
57.6° / -4.4°
Apr
3114.8° / 1.4°
May
6221° / 7.5°
Jun
7425.7° / 12.8°
Jul
6828.6° / 15.7°
Aug
7327.7° / 14.6°
Sep
7523.7° / 10.2°
Oct
3816.8° / 3.8°
Nov
1210° / -1.6°
Dec
54.2° / -6.2°
Monthly climate evidence for North Amherst — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
MonthDayNightRainWet daysDaylightComfortCoverage
January1.4°C-10°C84 mm99 h 235Strong coverage
February3°C-9.2°C75 mm7.610 h 295Strong coverage
March7.6°C-4.4°C88 mm7.911 h 485Strong coverage
April14.8°C1.4°C96 mm9.113 h 1831Strong coverage
May21°C7.5°C94 mm10.314 h 3462Strong coverage
June25.7°C12.8°C113 mm9.215 h 1674Strong coverage
July28.6°C15.7°C105 mm9.515 h68Strong coverage
August27.7°C14.6°C105 mm7.913 h 5473Strong coverage
September23.7°C10.2°C118 mm7.512 h 2675Strong coverage
October16.8°C3.8°C124 mm8.710 h 5938Strong coverage
November10°C-1.6°C86 mm7.89 h 4312Strong coverage
December4.2°C-6.2°C99 mm99 h 055Strong coverage

What has changed

North Amherst runs +0.1°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
+0.6
Feb
+0.5
Mar
-0.1
Apr
-0.5
May
-0.4
Jun
-0.5
Jul
+0.2
Aug
0.0
Sep
+0.5
Oct
-0.2
Nov
-0.2
Dec
+1.4
September daytime highs, 20112025. Last recorded: 25.1°C.
Records at AMHERST, 1893–2026
MonthRecord highRecord lowWettest dayWettest / driest monthYears
January21.1°C7 Jan 2007-34.4°C22 Jan 196166 mm26 Jan 1986207 mm1978 · driest 13 mm in 1981132
February25.6°C22 Feb 2018-32.8°C2 Feb 196180 mm13 Feb 1900269 mm2008 · driest 2 mm in 1987133
March29.4°C29 Mar 1945-27.2°C19 Mar 196782 mm7 Mar 2011217 mm2024 · driest 3 mm in 1915132
April33.9°C19 Apr 1976-13.3°C1 Apr 192372 mm25 Apr 1945228 mm1983 · driest 14 mm in 1941133
May36.7°C27 May 2010-4.4°C9 May 198571 mm24 May 1989304 mm1984 · driest 15 mm in 1903132
June38.3°C3 Jun 1919-1.7°C7 Jun 190795 mm10 Jun 1961261 mm1972 · driest 18 mm in 1949132
July40.0°C4 Jul 19113.9°C15 Jul 1908126 mm13 Jul 1897353 mm1897 · driest 0 mm in 1951133
August37.8°C7 Aug 19180.0°C30 Aug 1965105 mm18 Aug 1955409 mm1955 · driest 10 mm in 1894132
September37.2°C2 Sep 1953-3.9°C24 Sep 1963154 mm16 Sep 1933370 mm1938 · driest 13 mm in 1914131
October32.2°C17 Oct 1908-11.1°C28 Oct 1974192 mm9 Oct 2005436 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1924131
November27.8°C2 Nov 1950-20.0°C26 Nov 193887 mm3 Nov 1927220 mm1927 · driest 8 mm in 2012131
December22.2°C8 Dec 1998-30.0°C30 Dec 1917104 mm15 Dec 1897223 mm1973 · driest 15 mm in 1943132
Typical days per month at AMHERST, 1991–2020
MonthDays 25°C+Days 30°C+Frost nightsHeavy rain (10 mm+)Snow days
January002936
February002735
March<102533
April2<1133<1
May82230
June186040
July2711030
August259030
September133<130
October2094<1
November<10203<1
December002744
How often, not how much — every day in AMHERST’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
MonthWarm & dry daysWet daysWashoutsWeek with 3+ wet daysDaytime mean has ranged
January<1%28%10%31%-1.8–3.8°C
February<1%27%10%30%-0.8–5.2°C
March3%28%10%31%4.3–10.8°C
April16%30%11%37%12.0–17.2°C
May47%31%11%39%18.6–23.6°C
June66%30%11%35%24.0–27.3°C
July71%29%11%31%26.7–30.0°C
August72%27%10%27%25.5–29.0°C
September61%25%10%26%21.6–25.0°C
October26%23%9%24%15.4–19.2°C
November3%27%11%29%7.5–12.3°C
December<1%28%11%32%-0.1–5.7°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.

1893Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 125-year average. Warmest: 1990. Coolest: 1904.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity
GeoNames 4945497
NOAA station
USC00190120 · AMHERST
Station distance
2.8 km from the place centre
Climate period
1991–2020
Minimum month coverage
28 usable years
Daylight
Calculated from latitude 42.41°, 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 AMHERST is what differs

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