United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Bridgman.

September leads for comfortable weather in Bridgman: typically 24.2°C by day, 11.7°C at night, with 88 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high24.2°C

Typical low11.7°C

Rain in September88 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · August

81climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

74climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · October

74climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 81 — days reach only 0.6°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

50.6° / -7°

Feb

52.2° / -6.1°

Mar

98.1° / -2.4°

Apr

3215° / 2.9°

May

6421.2° / 8.4°

Jun

7626.4° / 13.7°

Jul

7128.7° / 16.6°

Aug

7327.6° / 15.5°

Sep

8124.2° / 11.7°

Oct

4717.7° / 6.5°

Nov

169.6° / 0.8°

Dec

53.2° / -3.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Bridgman — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 21 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	0.6°C	-7°C	69 mm	11	3.9°C	9 h 26	5	Strong coverage
February	2.2°C	-6.1°C	46 mm	7.9	2.7°C	10 h 31	5	Strong coverage
March	8.1°C	-2.4°C	53 mm	8.1	2.5°C	11 h 48	9	Strong coverage
April	15°C	2.9°C	99 mm	11	3.9°C	13 h 17	32	Strong coverage
May	21.2°C	8.4°C	99 mm	10	7.3°C	14 h 32	64	Strong coverage
June	26.4°C	13.7°C	93 mm	8.7	14.2°C	15 h 13	76	Strong coverage
July	28.7°C	16.6°C	82 mm	6.9	21.0°C	14 h 57	71	Strong coverage
August	27.6°C	15.5°C	105 mm	8	22.5°C	13 h 52	73	Strong coverage
September	24.2°C	11.7°C	88 mm	8.2	20.3°C	12 h 26	81	Strong coverage
October	17.7°C	6.5°C	112 mm	10.1	14.9°C	11 h	47	Strong coverage
November	9.6°C	0.8°C	77 mm	9.1	9.5°C	9 h 45	16	Strong coverage
December	3.2°C	-3.8°C	60 mm	11.1	6.0°C	9 h 08	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Bridgman runs +1.2°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

+1.1

Feb

+1.6

Mar

+1.5

Apr

+0.7

May

+1.4

Jun

+1.1

Jul

+0.9

Aug

+0.5

Sep

+1.3

Oct

+1.2

Nov

+0.7

Dec

+2.5

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.2°C.

Records at BENTON HARBOR AP, 1893–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	20.0°C25 Jan 1950	-27.8°C21 Jan 2019	55 mm12 Jan 1960	189 mm2026 · driest 1 mm in 1982	90
February	22.8°C27 Feb 2024	-25.0°C1 Feb 2019	60 mm21 Feb 1997	123 mm2018 · driest 0 mm in 1987	90
March	30.0°C21 Mar 2012	-22.8°C3 Mar 2014	64 mm19 Mar 1948	143 mm1985 · driest 4 mm in 2013	90
April	31.7°C16 Apr 2002	-12.8°C7 Apr 1982	107 mm5 Apr 1947	367 mm2026 · driest 0 mm in 1894	88
May	36.1°C29 May 2006	-5.0°C10 May 1947	168 mm30 May 1943	329 mm1943 · driest 3 mm in 1897	92
June	38.3°C20 Jun 1953	-0.6°C1 Jun 1993	79 mm2 Jun 1950	225 mm1993 · driest 1 mm in 2025	90
July	40.0°C21 Jul 2002	2.8°C2 Jul 2001	123 mm11 Jul 1943	308 mm1943 · driest 0 mm in 1946	89
August	38.9°C21 Aug 2003	2.8°C28 Aug 1982	98 mm30 Aug 2016	285 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1950	88
September	36.7°C3 Sep 2011	-5.0°C27 Sep 1989	70 mm1 Sep 1968	262 mm2008 · driest 0 mm in 1979	90
October	33.3°C4 Oct 2005	-9.4°C30 Oct 1988	82 mm31 Oct 2013	358 mm2017 · driest 4 mm in 1895	89
November	27.8°C1 Nov 1950	-18.3°C24 Nov 1950	71 mm5 Nov 1990	220 mm1990 · driest 24 mm in 2023	89
December	20.6°C1 Dec 1970	-26.1°C23 Dec 1989	60 mm3 Dec 1982	268 mm1895 · driest 12 mm in 1955	89

Typical days per month at BENTON HARBOR AP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	27	2	10
February	0	0	25	1	7
March	<1	0	22	2	3
April	2	<1	9	3	<1
May	9	3	2	4	0
June	17	7	<1	3	0
July	23	11	0	3	0
August	21	7	0	3	0
September	12	4	<1	3	0
October	4	<1	3	3	<1
November	0	0	14	3	2
December	0	0	24	1	7

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 84); on 2011–2025 it is September (86). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in BENTON HARBOR AP’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%	34%	6%	42%	-2.7–3.6°C
February	<1%	29%	5%	33%	-0.8–5.1°C
March	6%	27%	6%	32%	4.2–11.7°C
April	17%	33%	10%	41%	11.8–17.8°C
May	43%	29%	11%	33%	17.8–24.5°C
June	67%	27%	10%	31%	23.9–28.5°C
July	79%	21%	9%	19%	26.2–30.3°C
August	78%	22%	9%	20%	25.4–29.7°C
September	61%	25%	11%	30%	21.9–26.3°C
October	30%	28%	10%	35%	14.8–20.1°C
November	5%	31%	9%	37%	6.2–12.6°C
December	0%	34%	6%	44%	-0.3–6.1°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 76-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 2014.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4986977
NOAA station: USC00200710 · BENTON HARBOR AP
Station distance: 22.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 41.94°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 21 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 BENTON HARBOR AP is what differs

Benton Harbor→Saint Joseph→Fair Plain→Stevensville→Baroda→Shoreham→

Or put two places side by side: Bridgman vs Benton Harbor

Best time to visitBridgman.

September

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May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Bridgman runs +1.2°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Bridgman.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Bridgman runs +1.2°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.