United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Plaistow.

September leads for comfortable weather in Plaistow: typically 23.3°C by day, 10.9°C at night, with 103 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high23.3°C

Typical low10.9°C

Rain in September103 mm

Comfort

September

September · August · June

77climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

70climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · June

72climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 77 — days reach only 2°C, 22° 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

52° / -8.4°

Feb

53.5° / -7.8°

Mar

57.6° / -3.7°

Apr

2714.3° / 1.7°

May

5520.1° / 7.2°

Jun

7425.1° / 12.5°

Jul

7128.4° / 16.1°

Aug

7627.5° / 15.1°

Sep

7723.3° / 10.9°

Oct

3816.8° / 4.5°

Nov

1410.5° / -0.5°

Dec

54.8° / -5.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Plaistow — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 39 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	2°C	-8.4°C	91 mm	9.1	5.6°C	9 h 21	5	Strong coverage
February	3.5°C	-7.8°C	87 mm	7.9	4.2°C	10 h 28	5	Strong coverage
March	7.6°C	-3.7°C	125 mm	9.3	3.8°C	11 h 47	5	Strong coverage
April	14.3°C	1.7°C	112 mm	9.8	5.6°C	13 h 19	27	Strong coverage
May	20.1°C	7.2°C	114 mm	10.8	9.4°C	14 h 37	55	Strong coverage
June	25.1°C	12.5°C	116 mm	10	14.0°C	15 h 19	74	Strong coverage
July	28.4°C	16.1°C	89 mm	8	17.5°C	15 h 02	71	Strong coverage
August	27.5°C	15.1°C	90 mm	7.5	18.3°C	13 h 55	76	Strong coverage
September	23.3°C	10.9°C	103 mm	7.6	16.6°C	12 h 26	77	Strong coverage
October	16.8°C	4.5°C	133 mm	9.1	13.1°C	10 h 58	38	Strong coverage
November	10.5°C	-0.5°C	96 mm	9	9.7°C	9 h 40	14	Strong coverage
December	4.8°C	-5.2°C	119 mm	9.7	7.5°C	9 h 02	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Plaistow runs +0.0°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

+0.8

Feb

+0.6

Mar

-0.4

Apr

-0.6

May

-0.9

Jun

-1.1

Jul

-0.1

Aug

-0.2

Sep

+0.5

Oct

-0.1

Nov

+0.5

Dec

+1.5

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.3°C.

Records at HAVERHILL, 1899–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	21.7°C26 Jan 1950	-29.4°C22 Jan 1984	83 mm25 Jan 1979	298 mm1979 · driest 9 mm in 1980	123
February	25.0°C22 Feb 2018	-27.2°C12 Feb 1914	76 mm10 Feb 2005	211 mm1900 · driest 2 mm in 1987	122
March	32.2°C31 Mar 1998	-20.0°C1 Mar 2015	134 mm15 Mar 2010	453 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1915	122
April	35.0°C17 Apr 2002	-12.8°C1 Apr 1923	112 mm1 Apr 2004	281 mm1987 · driest 13 mm in 1999	121
May	37.2°C30 May 1929	-4.4°C7 May 2001	123 mm13 May 2006	354 mm2006 · driest 14 mm in 1911	121
June	38.3°C15 Jun 1988	2.2°C1 Jun 1984	107 mm19 Jun 1922	324 mm2006 · driest 2 mm in 1912	122
July	40.6°C30 Jul 1949	5.0°C9 Jul 1983	112 mm13 Jul 1996	327 mm1938 · driest 8 mm in 1955	122
August	40.0°C10 Aug 1949	2.2°C30 Aug 1986	152 mm19 Aug 1991	285 mm2023 · driest 14 mm in 2007	120
September	36.7°C2 Sep 1953	-5.6°C22 Sep 1912	179 mm11 Sep 1954	236 mm1954 · driest 6 mm in 1914	120
October	31.7°C7 Oct 1963	-7.2°C31 Oct 2020	164 mm20 Oct 1996	395 mm2005 · driest 12 mm in 1994	121
November	28.9°C2 Nov 1950	-18.9°C24 Nov 1989	76 mm9 Nov 1972	300 mm1983 · driest 17 mm in 1976	123
December	24.4°C7 Dec 1998	-28.3°C30 Dec 1917	90 mm10 Dec 2014	218 mm1969 · driest 15 mm in 1980	123

Typical days per month at HAVERHILL, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	28	3	6
February	0	0	26	3	6
March	<1	<1	24	4	4
April	2	<1	12	4	<1
May	6	2	1	3	0
June	17	5	0	4	0
July	26	12	0	3	0
August	24	8	0	3	0
September	11	2	<1	3	0
October	2	0	6	4	<1
November	<1	0	18	3	<1
December	0	0	26	4	4

How often, not how much — every day in HAVERHILL’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%	29%	10%	31%	-1.4–4.5°C
February	<1%	29%	11%	32%	0.4–5.6°C
March	2%	30%	11%	35%	5.3–10.3°C
April	15%	33%	12%	40%	12.5–16.9°C
May	45%	32%	10%	37%	18.9–24.0°C
June	65%	30%	11%	34%	23.5–28.0°C
July	72%	28%	10%	29%	27.0–30.3°C
August	74%	26%	9%	24%	25.7–29.1°C
September	61%	26%	9%	27%	21.8–25.3°C
October	25%	25%	10%	25%	15.3–19.2°C
November	4%	30%	11%	31%	8.3–13.1°C
December	<1%	30%	12%	33%	1.3–7.0°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.

1901Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 113-year average. Warmest: 1931. Coolest: 1904.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5091273
NOAA station: USC00193505 · HAVERHILL
Station distance: 9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 42.84°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 39 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 HAVERHILL is what differs

Haverhill→Amesbury→Merrimac→Newton→West Newbury→South Hampton→

Or put two places side by side: Plaistow vs Haverhill

Best time to visitPlaistow.

September

July

May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Plaistow runs +0.0°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Plaistow.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Plaistow runs +0.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.