United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Sanford.

September leads for comfortable weather in Sanford: typically 23.1°C by day, 11.4°C at night, with 74 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high23.1°C

Typical low11.4°C

Rain in September74 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · August

81climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

74climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · October

78climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 81 — days reach only -1.1°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

5-1.1° / -8.4°

Feb

50.4° / -7.8°

Mar

56.3° / -3.5°

Apr

3013.7° / 2.3°

May

6320.6° / 8.8°

Jun

8025.9° / 14.2°

Jul

7528.1° / 16.4°

Aug

7727° / 15.9°

Sep

8123.1° / 11.4°

Oct

4515.9° / 5.7°

Nov

128° / 0.1°

Dec

51.6° / -4.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Sanford — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 41 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-1.1°C	-8.4°C	50 mm	7.5	1.7°C	9 h 16	5	Strong coverage
February	0.4°C	-7.8°C	47 mm	5.9	0.8°C	10 h 25	5	Strong coverage
March	6.3°C	-3.5°C	53 mm	7.3	1.2°C	11 h 47	5	Strong coverage
April	13.7°C	2.3°C	90 mm	9.1	4.1°C	13 h 22	30	Strong coverage
May	20.6°C	8.8°C	92 mm	10	8.7°C	14 h 41	63	Strong coverage
June	25.9°C	14.2°C	93 mm	8.2	15.5°C	15 h 25	80	Strong coverage
July	28.1°C	16.4°C	70 mm	7.5	20.9°C	15 h 08	75	Strong coverage
August	27°C	15.9°C	85 mm	8	22.2°C	13 h 59	77	Strong coverage
September	23.1°C	11.4°C	74 mm	7.2	19.4°C	12 h 27	81	Strong coverage
October	15.9°C	5.7°C	80 mm	8.8	13.0°C	10 h 56	45	Strong coverage
November	8°C	0.1°C	64 mm	7.6	7.4°C	9 h 36	12	Strong coverage
December	1.6°C	-4.7°C	51 mm	7.2	3.7°C	8 h 57	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Sanford 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

+0.1

Feb

-0.3

Mar

-0.3

Apr

-2.0

May

-1.6

Jun

-1.3

Jul

-1.7

Aug

-1.4

Sep

-0.7

Oct

-0.2

Nov

-0.8

Dec

+0.8

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 22.4°C.

Records at MIDLAND, 1970–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	15.6°C7 Jan 2008	-28.3°C19 Jan 1994	48 mm11 Jan 2020	106 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1973	56
February	20.6°C27 Feb 2024	-26.1°C3 Feb 1996	56 mm21 Feb 1997	101 mm2023 · driest 2 mm in 1987	56
March	30.0°C21 Mar 2012	-23.3°C3 Mar 1980	58 mm2 Mar 1976	145 mm1976 · driest 9 mm in 2001	55
April	31.1°C22 Apr 1980	-12.2°C7 Apr 1982	51 mm16 Apr 1992	204 mm2013 · driest 22 mm in 1978	56
May	35.6°C29 May 2006	-3.9°C1 May 1978	97 mm18 May 2020	186 mm2004 · driest 10 mm in 1988	56
June	39.4°C28 Jun 1971	0.0°C11 Jun 1972	101 mm22 Jun 1996	247 mm2017 · driest 18 mm in 1988	56
July	37.8°C14 Jul 1995	3.9°C5 Jul 1972	76 mm29 Jul 1996	198 mm2023 · driest 11 mm in 1989	55
August	37.8°C7 Aug 2001	1.7°C29 Aug 1982	97 mm21 Aug 1975	324 mm1975 · driest 22 mm in 1976	52
September	35.0°C3 Sep 1973	-2.2°C27 Sep 1989	205 mm11 Sep 1986	466 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 1979	53
October	31.7°C7 Oct 2007	-7.8°C21 Oct 1974	83 mm23 Oct 2017	184 mm2019 · driest 16 mm in 1982	56
November	23.9°C9 Nov 2020	-16.1°C29 Nov 1995	54 mm5 Nov 1990	169 mm2003 · driest 9 mm in 2012	56
December	19.4°C5 Dec 2001	-23.9°C29 Dec 1976	41 mm15 Dec 1971	131 mm1971 · driest 9 mm in 1976	56

Typical days per month at MIDLAND, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	28	2	5
February	0	0	26	2	4
March	<1	0	23	2	2
April	1	<1	10	3	<1
May	8	2	<1	3	0
June	18	6	0	3	0
July	25	10	0	2	0
August	23	6	0	3	0
September	12	2	<1	2	0
October	3	<1	4	3	0
November	0	0	16	2	1
December	0	0	26	1	4

How often, not how much — every day in MIDLAND’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%	22%	4%	20%	-4.6–1.3°C
February	<1%	20%	4%	16%	-2.6–3.8°C
March	3%	24%	6%	26%	3.3–9.2°C
April	15%	29%	9%	32%	11.4–16.3°C
May	43%	29%	8%	35%	18.2–23.7°C
June	68%	27%	9%	30%	23.9–28.1°C
July	76%	24%	8%	25%	25.7–30.4°C
August	73%	26%	10%	26%	25.1–28.8°C
September	57%	26%	9%	31%	21.1–25.4°C
October	19%	28%	8%	31%	13.3–17.9°C
November	2%	25%	7%	24%	5.2–11.0°C
December	0%	24%	5%	22%	-1.8–4.5°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.

1971Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 47-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 2014.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5008936
NOAA station: USC00205434 · MIDLAND
Station distance: 16.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 43.67°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 41 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 MIDLAND is what differs

Midland→Averill→Bombay→Bullock Creek→Dean→Dice Corners→

Or put two places side by side: Sanford vs Midland

Best time to visitSanford.

September

July

May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Sanford runs -0.8°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Sanford.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Sanford runs -0.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.