United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Buffalo.

June leads for comfortable weather in Buffalo: typically 23.8°C by day, 13.4°C at night, with 87 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJune

Typical high23.8°C

Typical low13.4°C

Rain in June87 mm

Comfort

June

June · August · July

83climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

63climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · June

74climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against June’s 83 — days reach only 0.1°C, 24° 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

50.1° / -7.6°

Feb

50.8° / -7.7°

Mar

55.2° / -4°

Apr

2011.9° / 1.4°

May

5619° / 7.7°

Jun

8323.8° / 13.4°

Jul

7626.4° / 16.4°

Aug

7925.9° / 15.8°

Sep

7422.4° / 12.1°

Oct

3715.6° / 6.3°

Nov

98.9° / 1°

Dec

53.1° / -3.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Buffalo — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 20 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	0.1°C	-7.6°C	75 mm	14.5	3.0°C	9 h 21	5	Strong coverage
February	0.8°C	-7.7°C	62 mm	10.7	1.3°C	10 h 28	5	Strong coverage
March	5.2°C	-4°C	68 mm	9.9	1.3°C	11 h 47	5	Strong coverage
April	11.9°C	1.4°C	90 mm	11.8	3.2°C	13 h 19	20	Strong coverage
May	19°C	7.7°C	89 mm	11	8.9°C	14 h 37	56	Strong coverage
June	23.8°C	13.4°C	87 mm	9.9	16.9°C	15 h 19	83	Strong coverage
July	26.4°C	16.4°C	90 mm	9.6	22.2°C	15 h 03	76	Strong coverage
August	25.9°C	15.8°C	84 mm	9.5	23.2°C	13 h 56	79	Strong coverage
September	22.4°C	12.1°C	103 mm	9.6	20.8°C	12 h 26	74	Strong coverage
October	15.6°C	6.3°C	117 mm	12	15.7°C	10 h 58	37	Strong coverage
November	8.9°C	1°C	94 mm	11.2	10.2°C	9 h 40	9	Strong coverage
December	3.1°C	-3.8°C	83 mm	12.5	6.3°C	9 h 02	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Buffalo runs +1.2°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

+1.1

Feb

+1.0

Mar

+0.7

Apr

+0.4

May

+2.3

Jun

+1.2

Jul

+1.5

Aug

+1.2

Sep

+1.7

Oct

+1.4

Nov

+0.8

Dec

+1.5

June daytime highs, 2011–2021. Last recorded: 25.6°C.

Records at FORT ERIE, 1966–2021
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	15.5°C11 Jan 2020	-28.5°C16 Jan 1984	50 mm7 Jan 1998	165 mm1977 · driest 10 mm in 2013	55
February	19.5°C24 Feb 2017	-31.0°C18 Feb 1979	50 mm1 Feb 1973	155 mm1990 · driest 9 mm in 1987	55
March	27.0°C21 Mar 2012	-25.5°C8 Mar 1984	47 mm5 Mar 2011	142 mm1973 · driest 10 mm in 2013	55
April	32.0°C28 Apr 1990	-12.0°C7 Apr 1982	39 mm12 Apr 1996	158 mm1996 · driest 31 mm in 1978	56
May	32.0°C9 May 2015	-4.5°C1 May 1978	62 mm31 May 2015	162 mm2017 · driest 10 mm in 1980	53
June	34.0°C20 Jun 1995	1.0°C17 Jun 1980	108 mm25 Jun 1968	198 mm2010 · driest 14 mm in 1995	55
July	35.0°C9 Jul 2020	5.5°C11 Jul 1997	70 mm13 Jul 2017	199 mm2004 · driest 19 mm in 2001	52
August	35.5°C1 Aug 2006	1.5°C29 Aug 1982	79 mm30 Aug 2005	165 mm1992 · driest 8 mm in 2007	55
September	35.0°C9 Sep 2015	-1.0°C30 Sep 1993	104 mm13 Sep 1979	258 mm1996 · driest 32 mm in 1973	55
October	29.5°C5 Oct 2007	-8.5°C7 Oct 2008	132 mm27 Oct 2012	372 mm2012 · driest 19 mm in 2000	54
November	25.0°C10 Nov 2020	-15.5°C23 Nov 2000	134 mm12 Nov 2012	217 mm1985 · driest 31 mm in 2015	55
December	18.5°C14 Dec 2015	-24.5°C12 Dec 1988	60 mm10 Dec 1995	187 mm2001 · driest 25 mm in 2019	54

Typical days per month at FORT ERIE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	25	2	10
February	0	0	23	2	7
March	<1	0	22	2	5
April	<1	<1	12	3	1
May	5	<1	<1	3	0
June	12	2	0	3	0
July	21	4	0	3	0
August	20	2	0	3	0
September	8	1	<1	3	0
October	<1	0	3	4	<1
November	0	0	13	3	2
December	0	0	21	2	7

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was July (scoring 88); on 2011–2025 it is June (89). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in FORT ERIE’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%	43%	8%	63%	-3.3–2.8°C
February	0%	38%	6%	53%	-2.4–3.7°C
March	2%	32%	7%	47%	2.6–8.2°C
April	7%	36%	10%	49%	9.3–13.5°C
May	26%	34%	9%	45%	15.2–21.1°C
June	56%	32%	10%	42%	21.5–25.4°C
July	71%	28%	9%	29%	24.8–28.2°C
August	70%	29%	10%	32%	23.9–27.3°C
September	48%	31%	11%	40%	20.2–23.9°C
October	12%	35%	11%	44%	13.3–16.9°C
November	<1%	39%	11%	55%	6.5–11.8°C
December	0%	42%	10%	63%	-0.4–5.1°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.

1967Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 47-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 1978.2020

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5110629
NOAA station: CA006132470 · FORT ERIE
Station distance: 7.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 42.89°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 20 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 FORT ERIE is what differs

Fort Erie→Lackawanna→Wanakah→Blasdell→Athol Springs→Bay View→

Or put two places side by side: Buffalo vs Fort Erie

Best time to visitBuffalo.

June

July

May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Buffalo runs +1.2°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Buffalo.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Buffalo runs +1.2°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.