United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Potsdam.

August leads for comfortable weather in Potsdam: typically 25.6°C by day, 13.8°C at night, with 85 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high25.6°C

Typical low13.8°C

Rain in August85 mm

Comfort

August

August · June · July

80climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

56climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · June

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 80 — days reach only -2.8°C, 27° 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

5-2.8° / -14.2°

Feb

5-1.2° / -13.1°

Mar

53.7° / -7.4°

Apr

2212.1° / 0.3°

May

5719.3° / 7.2°

Jun

7924° / 12.5°

Jul

7726.2° / 14.9°

Aug

8025.6° / 13.8°

Sep

6521.6° / 9.3°

Oct

2914.5° / 3.5°

Nov

57.2° / -2.4°

Dec

50.8° / -9°

Monthly climate evidence for Potsdam — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-2.8°C	-14.2°C	62 mm	9.2	9 h 09	5	Strong coverage
February	-1.2°C	-13.1°C	49 mm	7.8	10 h 21	5	Strong coverage
March	3.7°C	-7.4°C	58 mm	8.2	11 h 46	5	Strong coverage
April	12.1°C	0.3°C	75 mm	9.9	13 h 24	22	Strong coverage
May	19.3°C	7.2°C	81 mm	10.9	14 h 47	57	Strong coverage
June	24°C	12.5°C	99 mm	11.2	15 h 33	79	Strong coverage
July	26.2°C	14.9°C	98 mm	9.9	15 h 15	77	Strong coverage
August	25.6°C	13.8°C	85 mm	8.8	14 h 03	80	Strong coverage
September	21.6°C	9.3°C	110 mm	9.9	12 h 28	65	Strong coverage
October	14.5°C	3.5°C	115 mm	11.4	10 h 53	29	Strong coverage
November	7.2°C	-2.4°C	78 mm	10	9 h 31	5	Strong coverage
December	0.8°C	-9°C	69 mm	10.6	8 h 49	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Potsdam 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

+0.4

Apr

+1.8

May

+2.2

Jun

+0.9

Jul

+1.0

Aug

+1.2

Sep

+2.1

Oct

+2.0

Nov

0.0

Dec

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August daytime highs, 2011–2024. Last recorded: 25.4°C.

Records at CANTON 4 SE, 1893–2024
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	18.9°C16 Jan 1995	-40.6°C28 Jan 1925	67 mm24 Jan 1898	172 mm1898 · driest 0 mm in 2024	109
February	20.6°C27 Feb 2024	-41.7°C17 Feb 1896	52 mm25 Feb 2016	157 mm2016 · driest 9 mm in 2007	108
March	26.7°C17 Mar 1990	-34.4°C4 Mar 1938	69 mm14 Mar 1993	126 mm1955 · driest 3 mm in 1967	108
April	31.7°C29 Apr 1990	-22.2°C7 Apr 1972	43 mm2 Apr 1973	155 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 2023	111
May	33.9°C7 May 1895	-6.1°C11 May 1900	75 mm5 May 1893	183 mm1893 · driest 19 mm in 2005	108
June	35.0°C27 Jun 1941	-1.7°C3 Jun 1986	114 mm18 Jun 1940	192 mm1922 · driest 18 mm in 1942	109
July	36.7°C1 Jul 1931	1.1°C11 Jul 1898	104 mm12 Jul 1987	226 mm1947 · driest 0 mm in 2023	105
August	37.2°C15 Aug 1944	0.0°C31 Aug 1976	97 mm10 Aug 1959	239 mm1959 · driest 0 mm in 2024	105
September	33.9°C3 Sep 1953	-5.6°C26 Sep 1978	97 mm12 Sep 2013	213 mm2013 · driest 4 mm in 2024	104
October	30.6°C2 Oct 2019	-10.6°C31 Oct 1975	92 mm1 Oct 2010	217 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2024	105
November	25.0°C8 Nov 1975	-26.1°C15 Nov 1900	68 mm9 Nov 1996	235 mm1927 · driest 4 mm in 2024	106
December	21.1°C5 Dec 1941	-38.3°C20 Dec 1942	61 mm30 Dec 1942	163 mm1983 · driest 15 mm in 1989	105

Typical days per month at CANTON 4 SE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	28	2	10
February	0	0	26	2	8
March	<1	0	26	2	5
April	1	<1	15	2	2
May	6	<1	3	2	0
June	13	2	0	4	0
July	19	4	0	4	0
August	19	3	0	2	0
September	8	1	1	4	0
October	1	0	9	3	<1
November	0	0	19	2	3
December	0	0	27	2	8

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 85); on 2011–2025 it is August (86). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in CANTON 4 SE’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%	32%	5%	39%	-6.7–0.5°C
February	0%	30%	5%	37%	-5.4–1.5°C
March	<1%	30%	6%	38%	0.1–6.5°C
April	9%	32%	8%	40%	9.1–14.6°C
May	32%	33%	9%	43%	16.5–21.6°C
June	59%	32%	10%	38%	22.2–26.0°C
July	70%	29%	10%	33%	24.7–28.3°C
August	67%	28%	9%	32%	24.0–27.7°C
September	43%	31%	11%	40%	19.2–23.2°C
October	15%	31%	9%	40%	12.0–16.9°C
November	1%	35%	8%	47%	4.1–9.9°C
December	<1%	35%	7%	48%	-4.0–3.2°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.

1895Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 96-year average. Warmest: 1953. Coolest: 1926.2015

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5132103
NOAA station: USW00014743 · CANTON 4 SE
Station distance: 14.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 44.67°, 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 CANTON 4 SE is what differs

Canton→Norwood→Hannawa Falls→De Kalb Junction→Hermon→Colton→

Or put two places side by side: Potsdam vs Canton

Best time to visitPotsdam.

August

July

May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Potsdam runs +1.4°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Potsdam.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Potsdam runs +1.4°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.