United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Ford River.

August leads for comfortable weather in Ford River: typically 24.3°C by day, 12.7°C at night, with 69 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high24.3°C

Typical low12.7°C

Rain in August69 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · June

86climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

52climate match

Outdoors

September

September · June · August

83climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 86 — days reach only -3.9°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

5-3.9° / -13.7°

Feb

5-2° / -12.9°

Mar

52.3° / -8.3°

Apr

149° / -1.3°

May

4015.5° / 4.6°

Jun

7221.7° / 10.6°

Jul

8324.8° / 13.2°

Aug

8624.3° / 12.7°

Sep

6419.7° / 8.7°

Oct

2912.7° / 2.5°

Nov

55.2° / -3.4°

Dec

5-0.5° / -9.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Ford River — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 6 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-3.9°C	-13.7°C	29 mm	6.5	2.5°C	9 h 03	5	Good coverage
February	-2°C	-12.9°C	26 mm	4.8	1.7°C	10 h 17	5	Good coverage
March	2.3°C	-8.3°C	40 mm	5.7	1.2°C	11 h 46	5	Good coverage
April	9°C	-1.3°C	59 mm	7.7	2.3°C	13 h 27	14	Good coverage
May	15.5°C	4.6°C	85 mm	9.6	4.9°C	14 h 53	40	Good coverage
June	21.7°C	10.6°C	82 mm	9.2	9.5°C	15 h 41	72	Good coverage
July	24.8°C	13.2°C	82 mm	8.3	17.9°C	15 h 22	83	Good coverage
August	24.3°C	12.7°C	69 mm	7.6	20.0°C	14 h 07	86	Good coverage
September	19.7°C	8.7°C	82 mm	8	17.4°C	12 h 29	64	Good coverage
October	12.7°C	2.5°C	79 mm	8.8	12.6°C	10 h 51	29	Good coverage
November	5.2°C	-3.4°C	52 mm	6.1	8.1°C	9 h 25	5	Good coverage
December	-0.5°C	-9.1°C	41 mm	6.5	4.0°C	8 h 42	5	Good coverage

Records at ESCANABA, 1874–2009
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	12.8°C10 Jan 2002	-33.9°C16 Jan 1888	45 mm1 Jan 1876	122 mm1886 · driest 0 mm in 1897	126
February	11.1°C20 Feb 1943	-35.6°C7 Feb 1875	52 mm21 Feb 1937	99 mm1937 · driest 3 mm in 1969	131
March	26.1°C27 Mar 1946	-32.8°C1 Mar 1884	54 mm10 Mar 1876	123 mm1977 · driest 3 mm in 1937	130
April	28.9°C30 Apr 2007	-18.3°C1 Apr 1923	51 mm28 Apr 1914	133 mm1954 · driest 10 mm in 1946	129
May	32.8°C26 May 1914	-6.7°C2 May 1882	54 mm18 May 1949	201 mm1881 · driest 5 mm in 1891	129
June	36.7°C29 Jun 1970	-1.7°C5 Jun 1897	100 mm30 Jun 1953	201 mm1953 · driest 15 mm in 1970	128
July	37.8°C1 Jul 1910	3.3°C23 Jul 2002	87 mm26 Jul 1951	252 mm1951 · driest 10 mm in 1939	126
August	37.8°C21 Aug 1955	1.1°C23 Aug 1890	92 mm11 Aug 1875	306 mm1875 · driest 14 mm in 1969	129
September	35.6°C1 Sep 1953	-4.4°C28 Sep 1893	120 mm1 Sep 1937	241 mm1881 · driest 11 mm in 1989	129
October	30.0°C4 Oct 1905	-12.2°C30 Oct 1925	74 mm2 Oct 1884	203 mm1884 · driest 2 mm in 1952	127
November	21.7°C10 Nov 1999	-22.8°C22 Nov 1880	70 mm1 Nov 1985	177 mm1985 · driest 2 mm in 1899	123
December	14.4°C6 Dec 2001	-30.6°C30 Dec 1976	51 mm8 Dec 2007	110 mm1884 · driest 4 mm in 1893	126

Typical days per month at ESCANABA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	30	<1	3
February	0	0	27	<1	2
March	0	0	29	2	2
April	<1	0	20	2	<1
May	<1	<1	5	3	0
June	7	<1	<1	3	0
July	14	4	0	3	0
August	13	2	0	2	0
September	3	0	1	3	0
October	<1	0	11	2	<1
November	0	0	23	2	1
December	0	0	29	<1	2

How often, not how much — every day in ESCANABA’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%	23%	2%	23%	-8.0–-1.3°C
February	0%	21%	2%	19%	-6.6–-0.4°C
March	<1%	22%	5%	23%	-1.4–3.7°C
April	1%	26%	6%	31%	5.6–10.3°C
May	11%	29%	8%	34%	12.5–17.1°C
June	43%	30%	9%	36%	18.8–22.6°C
July	66%	28%	10%	31%	22.2–26.4°C
August	62%	27%	8%	29%	21.1–25.1°C
September	28%	29%	9%	35%	16.8–20.7°C
October	4%	25%	7%	28%	10.2–14.6°C
November	<1%	25%	6%	27%	2.5–6.6°C
December	0%	23%	4%	23%	-4.9–1.5°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.

1875Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 114-year average. Warmest: 1931. Coolest: 1875.2008

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4993087
NOAA station: USW00014824 · ESCANABA
Station distance: 5.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 15 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 45.68°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 6 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 ESCANABA is what differs

Escanaba→Bark River→Fox→Gourley→Hannahville→Harris→

Or put two places side by side: Ford River vs Escanaba

Best time to visitFord River.