United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Blue Ridge.

September leads for comfortable weather in Blue Ridge: typically 25.4°C by day, 12.5°C at night, with 96 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high25.4°C

Typical low12.5°C

Rain in September96 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · May

79climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

71climate match

Outdoors

October

October · September · May

77climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 79 — days reach only 1.1°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

51.1° / -9.5°

Feb

53.9° / -7.3°

Mar

2010.9° / -1.7°

Apr

4117° / 4.4°

May

6422.6° / 10.6°

Jun

6527.9° / 16.4°

Jul

5430.3° / 18.8°

Aug

6329.6° / 17.5°

Sep

7925.4° / 12.5°

Oct

5618.5° / 5.8°

Nov

2210.4° / -1°

Dec

53.5° / -6.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Blue Ridge — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	1.1°C	-9.5°C	23 mm	3.9	9 h 36	5	Strong coverage
February	3.9°C	-7.3°C	40 mm	4.9	10 h 36	5	Strong coverage
March	10.9°C	-1.7°C	60 mm	6.5	11 h 49	20	Strong coverage
April	17°C	4.4°C	113 mm	10	13 h 13	41	Strong coverage
May	22.6°C	10.6°C	153 mm	11.1	14 h 23	64	Strong coverage
June	27.9°C	16.4°C	136 mm	9.2	15 h 01	65	Strong coverage
July	30.3°C	18.8°C	132 mm	7.9	14 h 46	54	Strong coverage
August	29.6°C	17.5°C	105 mm	7.7	13 h 45	63	Strong coverage
September	25.4°C	12.5°C	96 mm	6.3	12 h 24	79	Strong coverage
October	18.5°C	5.8°C	77 mm	6.6	11 h 04	56	Strong coverage
November	10.4°C	-1°C	50 mm	5.6	9 h 54	22	Strong coverage
December	3.5°C	-6.5°C	44 mm	4.6	9 h 19	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Blue Ridge runs -0.2°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

+0.5

Feb

-0.2

Mar

+0.4

Apr

-1.3

May

-1.4

Jun

-0.2

Jul

-1.1

Aug

-1.0

Sep

+0.6

Oct

-0.9

Nov

+0.1

Dec

+2.0

September daytime highs, 2011–2023. Last recorded: 27.5°C.

Records at BETHANY, 1893–2024
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	20.6°C23 Jan 1964	-36.1°C27 Jan 1902	61 mm28 Jan 1909	152 mm1898 · driest 0 mm in 1912	128
February	27.2°C15 Feb 1921	-32.8°C13 Feb 1905	51 mm21 Feb 1997	129 mm1911 · driest 0 mm in 1938	128
March	31.1°C29 Mar 1895	-29.4°C5 Mar 1960	66 mm15 Mar 1919	186 mm1973 · driest 0 mm in 1910	128
April	33.9°C10 Apr 1930	-15.0°C5 Apr 1920	91 mm10 Apr 1978	218 mm1927 · driest 13 mm in 1962	128
May	38.9°C30 May 1934	-8.3°C4 May 1907	140 mm29 May 2019	374 mm2019 · driest 20 mm in 1992	130
June	39.4°C19 Jun 1936	3.3°C3 Jun 1969	208 mm29 Jun 2017	454 mm1947 · driest 3 mm in 1936	127
July	43.3°C15 Jul 1936	5.6°C31 Jul 1971	207 mm13 Jul 1992	576 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1983	127
August	44.4°C9 Aug 1934	3.3°C20 Aug 1950	131 mm5 Aug 2023	314 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1909	126
September	40.6°C3 Sep 1939	-5.0°C29 Sep 1899	150 mm23 Sep 1959	359 mm1926 · driest 6 mm in 1979	124
October	35.6°C4 Oct 1938	-10.6°C29 Oct 1952	155 mm11 Oct 1973	220 mm1967 · driest 0 mm in 1952	124
November	28.9°C1 Nov 1938	-23.3°C30 Nov 1964	78 mm18 Nov 1958	210 mm1931 · driest 0 mm in 1921	124
December	22.8°C16 Dec 2021	-33.9°C20 Dec 1901	66 mm8 Dec 1980	135 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 1908	124

Typical days per month at BETHANY, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	27	<1	3
February	0	0	23	2	3
March	<1	0	19	2	<1
April	3	<1	6	4	<1
May	12	2	<1	4	0
June	24	10	0	4	0
July	29	17	0	4	0
August	28	16	0	3	0
September	17	6	<1	3	0
October	6	<1	5	2	<1
November	<1	0	16	2	<1
December	0	0	26	2	2

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was May (scoring 82); 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 BETHANY’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	<1%	14%	3%	8%	-2.5–5.3°C
February	1%	16%	4%	10%	-0.7–8.3°C
March	12%	20%	7%	20%	6.8–14.7°C
April	32%	27%	10%	31%	15.1–20.7°C
May	56%	31%	13%	37%	20.9–26.2°C
June	70%	29%	13%	34%	26.1–31.1°C
July	77%	23%	11%	21%	28.8–33.8°C
August	75%	24%	11%	26%	28.0–33.1°C
September	71%	23%	11%	24%	23.8–28.7°C
October	45%	19%	7%	17%	16.8–22.6°C
November	10%	16%	5%	12%	7.7–14.1°C
December	<1%	14%	4%	9%	0.1–6.9°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 110-year average. Warmest: 1921. Coolest: 1904.2023

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5054157
NOAA station: USC00230608 · BETHANY
Station distance: 10.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 40.19°, 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.

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