United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Canton.

August leads for comfortable weather in Canton: typically 26.6°C by day, 14°C at night, with 109 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high26.6°C

Typical low14°C

Rain in August109 mm

Comfort

August

August · September · July

75climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

63climate match

Outdoors

September

September · May · October

74climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 75 — days reach only -4.3°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

5-4.3° / -14.6°

Feb

5-1.7° / -12.6°

Mar

55.3° / -5.5°

Apr

2613.5° / 0.8°

May

5520.1° / 7.3°

Jun

6725.7° / 13°

Jul

7227.8° / 15.4°

Aug

7526.6° / 14°

Sep

7422.9° / 9.2°

Oct

4015.3° / 2.3°

Nov

56.5° / -4°

Dec

5-1° / -10.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Canton — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-4.3°C	-14.6°C	28 mm	5.7	9 h 17	5	Strong coverage
February	-1.7°C	-12.6°C	29 mm	4.9	10 h 25	5	Strong coverage
March	5.3°C	-5.5°C	50 mm	6.4	11 h 47	5	Strong coverage
April	13.5°C	0.8°C	97 mm	8.6	13 h 21	26	Strong coverage
May	20.1°C	7.3°C	114 mm	10.8	14 h 41	55	Strong coverage
June	25.7°C	13°C	154 mm	10.8	15 h 24	67	Strong coverage
July	27.8°C	15.4°C	105 mm	8.5	15 h 07	72	Strong coverage
August	26.6°C	14°C	109 mm	8.1	13 h 58	75	Strong coverage
September	22.9°C	9.2°C	93 mm	7.5	12 h 27	74	Strong coverage
October	15.3°C	2.3°C	68 mm	7.3	10 h 56	40	Strong coverage
November	6.5°C	-4°C	49 mm	5.6	9 h 37	5	Strong coverage
December	-1°C	-10.4°C	36 mm	6.3	8 h 58	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Canton runs -0.1°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

+0.3

Feb

-1.2

Mar

+0.6

Apr

-2.1

May

-1.0

Jun

+0.1

Jul

-0.8

Aug

-0.7

Sep

+1.2

Oct

-0.2

Nov

+0.9

Dec

+2.1

August daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 26.1°C.

Records at PRESTON, 1952–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	14.4°C31 Jan 2025	-42.2°C31 Jan 2019	45 mm20 Jan 1988	104 mm1963 · driest 0 mm in 1985	74
February	21.1°C27 Feb 2024	-42.8°C3 Feb 1996	33 mm24 Feb 2007	78 mm1971 · driest 0 mm in 1986	74
March	28.3°C29 Mar 2025	-37.2°C1 Mar 1962	40 mm23 Mar 2011	105 mm2016 · driest 3 mm in 1994	74
April	32.8°C21 Apr 1980	-22.2°C6 Apr 1982	58 mm10 Apr 2013	211 mm2008 · driest 15 mm in 1972	72
May	34.4°C15 May 2013	-7.8°C10 May 2020	143 mm30 May 1980	258 mm2013 · driest 19 mm in 1958	74
June	37.8°C22 Jun 1988	-0.6°C4 Jun 1987	107 mm1 Jun 2000	308 mm2004 · driest 20 mm in 1988	74
July	38.3°C18 Jul 1964	1.7°C1 Jul 1988	185 mm11 Jul 1981	315 mm1999 · driest 17 mm in 1996	72
August	38.3°C2 Aug 1964	-1.1°C31 Aug 1967	119 mm25 Aug 1983	378 mm2007 · driest 13 mm in 2003	72
September	36.7°C4 Sep 2023	-7.2°C29 Sep 1967	121 mm20 Sep 1983	323 mm1965 · driest 8 mm in 1953	73
October	33.3°C4 Oct 1997	-13.9°C19 Oct 2022	149 mm5 Oct 2013	183 mm2013 · driest 1 mm in 1952	73
November	24.4°C9 Nov 1999	-28.3°C26 Nov 1977	76 mm1 Nov 1991	171 mm1991 · driest 2 mm in 1962	70
December	17.2°C6 Dec 1998	-37.2°C19 Dec 1983	49 mm14 Dec 2015	118 mm2015 · driest 5 mm in 1958	73

Typical days per month at PRESTON, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	30	<1	8
February	0	0	27	<1	6
March	<1	0	25	2	4
April	2	<1	14	3	1
May	7	1	3	4	<1
June	19	5	0	5	0
July	26	9	0	3	0
August	22	5	0	4	0
September	12	2	1	3	0
October	2	<1	12	2	<1
November	0	0	23	2	2
December	0	0	28	<1	7

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 76); on 2011–2025 it is September (83). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in PRESTON’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%	15%	2%	9%	-7.8–-1.1°C
February	<1%	14%	2%	9%	-5.3–3.1°C
March	3%	20%	5%	20%	2.1–9.7°C
April	16%	28%	9%	35%	10.4–17.1°C
May	41%	32%	11%	41%	18.3–23.7°C
June	63%	33%	14%	43%	24.3–27.9°C
July	73%	27%	11%	29%	26.4–30.5°C
August	72%	27%	11%	29%	25.3–28.9°C
September	58%	25%	9%	28%	20.9–25.0°C
October	24%	21%	6%	21%	14.2–19.2°C
November	3%	18%	5%	14%	2.8–9.8°C
December	0%	18%	3%	13%	-4.8–2.7°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.

1953Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 65-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 1996.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5020336
NOAA station: USC00216654 · PRESTON
Station distance: 19.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 43.53°, 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 PRESTON is what differs

Chatfield→Preston→Harmony→Lanesboro→Wykoff→Fountain→

Or put two places side by side: Canton vs Chatfield

Best time to visitCanton.