United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Richmond.

July leads for comfortable weather in Richmond: typically 26.7°C by day, 15.1°C at night, with 87 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high26.7°C

Typical low15.1°C

Rain in July87 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

78climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

61climate match

Outdoors

September

September · May · June

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 78 — days reach only -1.4°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

5-1.4° / -12.8°

Feb

50.4° / -12.2°

Mar

54.9° / -6.4°

Apr

1912° / 0.3°

May

5218.7° / 6.5°

Jun

7523.5° / 11.8°

Jul

7826.7° / 15.1°

Aug

7826.3° / 14.2°

Sep

7122.1° / 9.8°

Oct

3015.1° / 3.6°

Nov

58.3° / -1.8°

Dec

52.1° / -7.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Richmond — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 27 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-1.4°C	-12.8°C	88 mm	7.7	5.1°C	9 h 13	5	Strong coverage
February	0.4°C	-12.2°C	77 mm	7	3.4°C	10 h 23	5	Strong coverage
March	4.9°C	-6.4°C	94 mm	8.2	3.1°C	11 h 47	5	Strong coverage
April	12°C	0.3°C	106 mm	8.9	4.8°C	13 h 23	19	Strong coverage
May	18.7°C	6.5°C	93 mm	10.3	8.1°C	14 h 44	52	Strong coverage
June	23.5°C	11.8°C	112 mm	10.4	12.0°C	15 h 28	75	Strong coverage
July	26.7°C	15.1°C	87 mm	9.7	15.5°C	15 h 11	78	Strong coverage
August	26.3°C	14.2°C	92 mm	8.4	16.4°C	14 h 00	78	Strong coverage
September	22.1°C	9.8°C	100 mm	7.7	14.7°C	12 h 27	71	Strong coverage
October	15.1°C	3.6°C	137 mm	9.4	12.0°C	10 h 55	30	Strong coverage
November	8.3°C	-1.8°C	115 mm	8.5	9.4°C	9 h 34	5	Strong coverage
December	2.1°C	-7.9°C	111 mm	9.5	7.2°C	8 h 54	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Richmond runs +0.8°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

+0.9

Feb

+0.6

Mar

+0.3

Apr

+0.4

May

+0.5

Jun

-0.3

Jul

+0.8

Aug

+0.7

Sep

+1.6

Oct

+1.2

Nov

+1.0

Dec

+1.9

July daytime highs, 2011–2024. Last recorded: 28.6°C.

Records at GARDINER, 1886–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	16.7°C4 Jan 1913	-40.6°C24 Jan 1907	71 mm14 Jan 1887	225 mm1936 · driest 6 mm in 2004	137
February	17.2°C24 Feb 2022	-37.2°C16 Feb 1943	77 mm13 Feb 1900	228 mm1900 · driest 3 mm in 1987	136
March	28.9°C22 Mar 2012	-30.6°C1 Mar 1907	88 mm23 Mar 1994	262 mm1902 · driest 3 mm in 1915	137
April	33.3°C2 Apr 1998	-17.8°C2 Apr 1923	104 mm25 Apr 1983	239 mm2005 · driest 16 mm in 1941	135
May	37.2°C22 May 1911	-5.0°C6 May 1961	117 mm1 May 2023	237 mm1989 · driest 11 mm in 1903	135
June	37.8°C4 Jun 1919	-1.1°C1 Jun 1967	92 mm17 Jun 1974	279 mm1998 · driest 17 mm in 1983	135
July	38.9°C4 Jul 1911	2.2°C8 Jul 1969	147 mm24 Jul 1887	233 mm1915 · driest 6 mm in 1952	132
August	39.4°C2 Aug 1975	0.0°C31 Aug 1965	151 mm20 Aug 1991	304 mm1991 · driest 8 mm in 1947	134
September	36.1°C3 Sep 1937	-5.6°C27 Sep 1955	146 mm11 Sep 1954	284 mm1999 · driest 17 mm in 1914	133
October	31.7°C13 Oct 1930	-9.4°C21 Oct 1951	210 mm30 Oct 1886	387 mm2005 · driest 3 mm in 1947	135
November	25.0°C1 Nov 1974	-20.6°C29 Nov 1917	107 mm3 Nov 1966	327 mm1983 · driest 15 mm in 1939	135
December	19.4°C5 Dec 1982	-37.2°C30 Dec 1933	109 mm27 Dec 1969	273 mm1969 · driest 0 mm in 1988	135

Typical days per month at GARDINER, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	30	3	6
February	0	0	27	3	6
March	<1	0	28	3	4
April	<1	0	16	3	1
May	4	<1	1	3	0
June	13	2	0	4	0
July	23	6	0	2	0
August	22	5	0	3	0
September	8	1	<1	3	0
October	<1	0	8	4	<1
November	0	0	21	4	1
December	0	0	29	4	4

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 85); on 2011–2025 it is August (82). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in GARDINER’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%	28%	10%	30%	-4.0–2.0°C
February	0%	29%	11%	31%	-2.4–3.0°C
March	<1%	31%	12%	34%	2.9–8.2°C
April	7%	32%	11%	37%	10.0–14.0°C
May	34%	31%	10%	38%	16.1–21.3°C
June	60%	33%	9%	38%	21.6–25.8°C
July	68%	31%	10%	33%	24.8–28.4°C
August	72%	27%	9%	27%	23.8–27.7°C
September	51%	26%	10%	25%	19.5–23.5°C
October	13%	28%	11%	30%	13.1–17.1°C
November	<1%	31%	13%	36%	6.1–10.4°C
December	0%	30%	11%	35%	-1.3–4.5°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.

1887Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 124-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 1904.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4976528
NOAA station: USC00173046 · GARDINER
Station distance: 14.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 44.09°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 27 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
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 GARDINER is what differs

Gardiner→Chelsea→Pittston→Whitefield→Farmingdale→Randolph→

Or put two places side by side: Richmond vs Gardiner

Best time to visitRichmond.

July

July

September

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Richmond runs +0.8°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Richmond.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Richmond runs +0.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.