United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Elmira.

September leads for comfortable weather in Elmira: typically 23.3°C by day, 9.8°C at night, with 104 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high23.3°C

Typical low9.8°C

Rain in September104 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · August

74climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

61climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · October

75climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 74 — days reach only 0.5°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

50.5° / -9°

Feb

51.9° / -8.6°

Mar

56.6° / -4.9°

Apr

3014.3° / 0.8°

May

6421.3° / 6.9°

Jun

7325.8° / 12.2°

Jul

7028.2° / 14.7°

Aug

7327.4° / 13.9°

Sep

7423.3° / 9.8°

Oct

4016° / 3.8°

Nov

128.8° / -1.1°

Dec

53.1° / -5.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Elmira — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	0.5°C	-9°C	55 mm	8.5	9 h 25	5	Strong coverage
February	1.9°C	-8.6°C	47 mm	7.1	10 h 30	5	Strong coverage
March	6.6°C	-4.9°C	70 mm	8.3	11 h 48	5	Strong coverage
April	14.3°C	0.8°C	83 mm	9.7	13 h 17	30	Strong coverage
May	21.3°C	6.9°C	79 mm	10.2	14 h 33	64	Strong coverage
June	25.8°C	12.2°C	106 mm	10.1	15 h 14	73	Strong coverage
July	28.2°C	14.7°C	103 mm	9.5	14 h 58	70	Strong coverage
August	27.4°C	13.9°C	97 mm	8.9	13 h 53	73	Strong coverage
September	23.3°C	9.8°C	104 mm	8.2	12 h 26	74	Strong coverage
October	16°C	3.8°C	88 mm	10	11 h	40	Strong coverage
November	8.8°C	-1.1°C	69 mm	7.9	9 h 44	12	Strong coverage
December	3.1°C	-5.3°C	66 mm	8.8	9 h 07	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Elmira runs +0.7°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

+0.2

Feb

+1.1

Mar

+0.7

Apr

+0.6

May

+1.1

Jun

+0.6

Jul

+1.2

Aug

+0.6

Sep

+1.3

Oct

+0.6

Nov

-0.6

Dec

+1.0

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.8°C.

Records at ELMIRA, 1894–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	22.2°C26 Jan 1950	-31.1°C5 Jan 1904	51 mm29 Jan 1925	131 mm1978 · driest 7 mm in 1944	131
February	23.3°C25 Feb 2017	-29.4°C18 Feb 1979	68 mm15 Feb 1984	115 mm1984 · driest 2 mm in 1968	132
March	30.0°C29 Mar 1910	-24.4°C1 Mar 2015	90 mm4 Mar 1999	211 mm1936 · driest 4 mm in 1910	131
April	33.9°C28 Apr 2009	-14.4°C1 Apr 1923	79 mm18 Apr 1910	221 mm1993 · driest 20 mm in 1896	130
May	35.6°C20 May 1996	-6.1°C1 May 1931	64 mm28 May 1946	203 mm1943 · driest 15 mm in 1926	131
June	38.9°C27 Jun 1952	0.0°C1 Jun 1965	93 mm22 Jun 1972	282 mm1972 · driest 20 mm in 1970	131
July	40.0°C9 Jul 1936	4.4°C20 Jul 1965	89 mm22 Jul 2003	312 mm2018 · driest 17 mm in 1918	131
August	38.9°C6 Aug 1918	-0.6°C29 Aug 1982	114 mm10 Aug 2003	234 mm2023 · driest 13 mm in 1930	130
September	41.7°C3 Sep 1953	-5.0°C28 Sep 1947	116 mm8 Sep 2011	271 mm2018 · driest 10 mm in 1941	130
October	33.9°C6 Oct 1951	-9.4°C20 Oct 1974	97 mm1 Oct 2010	241 mm1955 · driest 3 mm in 1924	130
November	30.6°C2 Nov 1950	-17.2°C23 Nov 2018	97 mm9 Nov 1996	151 mm1985 · driest 6 mm in 1917	131
December	20.6°C7 Dec 1998	-26.7°C25 Dec 1980	65 mm11 Dec 1952	150 mm2012 · driest 1 mm in 1928	131

Typical days per month at ELMIRA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	28	2	6
February	0	0	26	2	6
March	<1	0	25	2	4
April	2	<1	15	3	<1
May	9	3	2	3	0
June	18	6	0	4	0
July	26	11	0	3	0
August	23	8	0	3	0
September	12	3	<1	3	0
October	2	0	8	3	<1
November	0	0	19	2	1
December	0	0	26	2	4

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was August (scoring 80); on 2011–2025 it is September (82). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in ELMIRA’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%	24%	5%	22%	-2.3–4.3°C
February	<1%	23%	5%	22%	-1.2–5.5°C
March	4%	26%	7%	29%	3.8–11.1°C
April	17%	30%	9%	37%	12.1–17.3°C
May	42%	34%	10%	45%	18.6–24.1°C
June	64%	31%	11%	36%	24.1–28.1°C
July	71%	29%	10%	32%	27.0–30.9°C
August	72%	27%	10%	27%	25.1–29.6°C
September	58%	27%	9%	29%	21.2–25.6°C
October	24%	26%	7%	29%	14.0–19.2°C
November	3%	26%	6%	25%	6.7–12.0°C
December	0%	24%	6%	24%	0.0–5.9°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.

1896Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 119-year average. Warmest: 1931. Coolest: 1972.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5116497
NOAA station: USC00302610 · ELMIRA
Station distance: 2.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 42.09°, 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 ELMIRA is what differs

Southport→West Elmira→Elmira Heights→Breesport→Wellsburg→Erin→

Or put two places side by side: Elmira vs Southport

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Elmira runs +0.7°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Elmira.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Elmira runs +0.7°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.