United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Carteret.

September leads for comfortable weather in Carteret: typically 25.6°C by day, 16.1°C at night, with 97 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high25.6°C

Typical low16.1°C

Rain in September97 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · June

80climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

78climate match

Outdoors

October

October · May · April

81climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 80 — days reach only 4.6°C, 19° 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

54.6° / -3.4°

Feb

56.2° / -2.5°

Mar

1610.7° / 1.3°

Apr

4917.1° / 6.9°

May

7622.8° / 12.3°

Jun

6727.9° / 17.7°

Jul

5130.7° / 20.9°

Aug

5829.5° / 20.1°

Sep

8025.6° / 16.1°

Oct

6219.1° / 9.6°

Nov

3312.9° / 4.1°

Dec

57.3° / -0.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Carteret — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 30 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	4.6°C	-3.4°C	87 mm	8.3	6.0°C	9 h 34	5	Strong coverage
February	6.2°C	-2.5°C	76 mm	7.3	4.3°C	10 h 35	5	Strong coverage
March	10.7°C	1.3°C	105 mm	8.8	4.8°C	11 h 49	16	Strong coverage
April	17.1°C	6.9°C	98 mm	8.6	7.9°C	13 h 14	49	Strong coverage
May	22.8°C	12.3°C	101 mm	9.1	12.6°C	14 h 25	76	Strong coverage
June	27.9°C	17.7°C	110 mm	8.8	18.1°C	15 h 03	67	Strong coverage
July	30.7°C	20.9°C	118 mm	8.1	22.2°C	14 h 48	51	Strong coverage
August	29.5°C	20.1°C	105 mm	8	23.1°C	13 h 47	58	Strong coverage
September	25.6°C	16.1°C	97 mm	7.1	21.4°C	12 h 25	80	Strong coverage
October	19.1°C	9.6°C	96 mm	7.3	17.3°C	11 h 03	62	Strong coverage
November	12.9°C	4.1°C	85 mm	7.1	12.7°C	9 h 52	33	Strong coverage
December	7.3°C	-0.4°C	105 mm	8.9	9.0°C	9 h 17	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Carteret runs +1.4°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

+1.8

Feb

+2.2

Mar

+1.3

Apr

+1.2

May

+0.9

Jun

+1.0

Jul

+1.8

Aug

+0.8

Sep

+1.3

Oct

+1.2

Nov

+0.8

Dec

+2.2

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 26.9°C.

Records at NEWARK LIBERTY INTL AP, 1843–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	23.3°C26 Jan 1950	-25.0°C11 Jan 1859	75 mm21 Jan 1979	257 mm1979 · driest 9 mm in 1849	174
February	26.7°C21 Feb 2018	-25.6°C9 Feb 1934	95 mm22 Feb 1878	174 mm1885 · driest 4 mm in 1855	174
March	31.7°C29 Mar 1945	-16.7°C4 Mar 1868	101 mm13 Mar 2010	283 mm1983 · driest 4 mm in 1848	175
April	36.1°C17 Apr 2002	-10.6°C1 Apr 1923	157 mm15 Apr 2007	301 mm2007 · driest 9 mm in 1848	175
May	37.2°C19 May 2026	-0.6°C3 May 1861	100 mm23 May 1979	260 mm1984 · driest 11 mm in 1903	176
June	39.4°C30 Jun 2021	3.3°C2 Jun 1843	116 mm26 Jun 1884	293 mm1903 · driest 2 mm in 1949	176
July	42.2°C22 Jul 2011	7.8°C1 Jul 1845	195 mm28 Jul 1897	485 mm1897 · driest 14 mm in 2022	175
August	40.6°C9 Aug 2001	7.2°C29 Aug 1982	381 mm5 Aug 1843	571 mm1843 · driest 7 mm in 1916	173
September	40.6°C2 Sep 1953	1.1°C22 Sep 1904	220 mm23 Sep 1882	449 mm1882 · driest 0 mm in 1854	173
October	35.6°C2 Oct 2019	-5.6°C23 Oct 1845	151 mm9 Oct 1903	337 mm1903 · driest 0 mm in 2024	173
November	29.4°C1 Nov 1950	-13.3°C30 Nov 1875	171 mm8 Nov 1977	293 mm1977 · driest 7 mm in 1857	173
December	24.4°C7 Dec 1998	-25.0°C30 Dec 1917	70 mm22 Dec 1983	241 mm1983 · driest 2 mm in 1877	173

Typical days per month at NEWARK LIBERTY INTL AP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	23	3	5
February	0	0	20	3	4
March	<1	0	12	3	3
April	4	<1	1	3	<1
May	10	4	0	3	0
June	23	11	0	4	0
July	29	19	0	4	0
August	28	14	0	4	0
September	17	5	0	3	0
October	4	<1	<1	3	0
November	<1	0	6	3	<1
December	0	0	18	4	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 88); on 2011–2025 it is May (83). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in NEWARK LIBERTY INTL AP’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%	26%	9%	28%	-0.6–6.6°C
February	<1%	26%	10%	28%	0.8–7.6°C
March	4%	27%	11%	31%	5.6–12.9°C
April	20%	28%	10%	33%	13.3–18.3°C
May	50%	29%	10%	35%	19.2–24.2°C
June	70%	27%	10%	30%	24.5–28.8°C
July	73%	27%	12%	30%	27.2–31.7°C
August	75%	25%	11%	24%	26.0–30.2°C
September	68%	22%	9%	20%	21.8–26.4°C
October	31%	21%	9%	18%	15.7–20.7°C
November	5%	23%	9%	21%	8.8–14.4°C
December	<1%	26%	10%	28%	2.0–8.2°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.

1844Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 170-year average. Warmest: 2023. Coolest: 1875.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5096316
NOAA station: USW00014734 · NEWARK LIBERTY INTL AP
Station distance: 12.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 40.58°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 30 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 NEWARK LIBERTY INTL AP is what differs

Staten Island→Elizabeth→Bayonne→Hillside→Great Kills→Woodrow→

Or put two places side by side: Carteret vs Staten Island

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