United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Cotton.

August leads for comfortable weather in Cotton: typically 25°C by day, 12°C at night, with 76 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high25°C

Typical low12°C

Rain in August76 mm

Comfort

August

August · June · July

81climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

55climate match

Outdoors

September

September · June · May

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 81 — days reach only -3.7°C, 28° 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

5-3.7° / -11.9°

Feb

5-2.3° / -12.5°

Mar

53.4° / -8.6°

Apr

1510.7° / -1.6°

May

5118.3° / 5.1°

Jun

8023.7° / 10.7°

Jul

7925.9° / 12.8°

Aug

8125° / 12°

Sep

6320.9° / 8°

Oct

2313.2° / 2.5°

Nov

55.5° / -2.6°

Dec

5-0.6° / -7.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Cotton — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-3.7°C	-11.9°C	52 mm	12.7	9 h 09	5	Strong coverage
February	-2.3°C	-12.5°C	38 mm	8.9	10 h 21	5	Strong coverage
March	3.4°C	-8.6°C	44 mm	8.1	11 h 46	5	Strong coverage
April	10.7°C	-1.6°C	73 mm	9.4	13 h 24	15	Strong coverage
May	18.3°C	5.1°C	80 mm	9.5	14 h 47	51	Strong coverage
June	23.7°C	10.7°C	83 mm	8.1	15 h 33	80	Strong coverage
July	25.9°C	12.8°C	78 mm	8	15 h 15	79	Strong coverage
August	25°C	12°C	76 mm	8.4	14 h 03	81	Strong coverage
September	20.9°C	8°C	93 mm	9.5	12 h 28	63	Strong coverage
October	13.2°C	2.5°C	106 mm	12.7	10 h 53	23	Strong coverage
November	5.5°C	-2.6°C	75 mm	12	9 h 30	5	Strong coverage
December	-0.6°C	-7.5°C	54 mm	12.1	8 h 49	5	Strong coverage

Records at KALKASKA, 1974–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	14.4°C13 Jan 2013	-35.6°C31 Jan 1994	38 mm13 Jan 2005	98 mm2008 · driest 16 mm in 2010	36
February	20.0°C28 Feb 2024	-36.7°C4 Feb 1996	23 mm21 Feb 2002	66 mm2006 · driest 14 mm in 2010	36
March	29.4°C22 Mar 2012	-33.9°C3 Mar 2014	53 mm31 Mar 1998	149 mm2025 · driest 11 mm in 2010	36
April	30.0°C17 Apr 2002	-20.0°C6 Apr 2003	90 mm13 Apr 2026	254 mm2026 · driest 25 mm in 1997	36
May	32.2°C13 May 2022	-7.2°C13 May 2020	64 mm29 May 2020	134 mm2012 · driest 8 mm in 1992	37
June	34.4°C25 Jun 2009	-1.7°C5 Jun 1998	64 mm12 Jun 2010	175 mm1974 · driest 18 mm in 1997	37
July	36.1°C1 Jul 2018	0.6°C21 Jul 1992	70 mm25 Jul 2021	221 mm2021 · driest 18 mm in 2001	36
August	35.6°C1 Aug 2006	0.0°C31 Aug 2009	62 mm22 Aug 2002	142 mm2017 · driest 29 mm in 2019	36
September	33.3°C24 Sep 2017	-5.0°C29 Sep 2000	67 mm7 Sep 2023	169 mm1993 · driest 17 mm in 2002	36
October	31.1°C5 Oct 2025	-7.2°C30 Oct 2013	70 mm25 Oct 1991	232 mm2017 · driest 19 mm in 2024	36
November	23.9°C10 Nov 2020	-18.9°C15 Nov 1996	58 mm18 Nov 2013	182 mm2013 · driest 23 mm in 1999	36
December	17.2°C6 Dec 2001	-27.8°C28 Dec 2000	34 mm14 Dec 2015	109 mm2008 · driest 11 mm in 1994	36

Typical days per month at KALKASKA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	30	<1	14
February	0	0	28	<1	11
March	<1	0	28	1	6
April	<1	0	20	3	3
May	6	1	6	3	<1
June	13	4	<1	3	0
July	20	5	0	3	0
August	17	3	0	3	0
September	7	1	2	3	0
October	1	0	11	3	<1
November	0	0	23	2	6
December	0	0	30	1	12

How often, not how much — every day in KALKASKA’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%	40%	2%	55%	-6.7–-1.2°C
February	0%	31%	2%	38%	-5.5–1.1°C
March	1%	27%	4%	31%	1.0–6.9°C
April	8%	31%	7%	38%	7.9–13.5°C
May	33%	29%	8%	32%	16.0–21.0°C
June	59%	27%	10%	31%	22.1–25.9°C
July	71%	24%	8%	24%	24.0–28.1°C
August	68%	26%	9%	29%	22.7–26.6°C
September	47%	32%	11%	43%	18.7–23.5°C
October	13%	35%	9%	48%	11.0–16.6°C
November	2%	39%	7%	56%	1.5–9.3°C
December	0%	38%	3%	52%	-3.5–2.4°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.

1991Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 35-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 2014.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4989703
NOAA station: USC00204257 · KALKASKA
Station distance: 10 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 44.70°, 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 KALKASKA is what differs

Kalkaska→Mancelona→Rapid City→Alden→Antrim→Barker Creek→

Or put two places side by side: Cotton vs Kalkaska

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