United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Poughkeepsie.

September leads for comfortable weather in Poughkeepsie: typically 23.8°C by day, 11.9°C at night, with 109 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high23.8°C

Typical low11.9°C

Rain in September109 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · August

79climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

69climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · October

72climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 79 — days reach only 1.8°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

51.8° / -8.2°

Feb

53.9° / -7.2°

Mar

68.7° / -3.1°

Apr

3715.8° / 2.7°

May

6421.5° / 8.8°

Jun

7426.2° / 14.2°

Jul

6528.7° / 16.9°

Aug

7027.7° / 15.9°

Sep

7923.8° / 11.9°

Oct

4317° / 5.6°

Nov

1810.8° / -0.1°

Dec

55° / -4.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Poughkeepsie — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	1.8°C	-8.2°C	89 mm	9.5	9 h 28	5	Strong coverage
February	3.9°C	-7.2°C	67 mm	7.7	10 h 32	5	Good coverage
March	8.7°C	-3.1°C	83 mm	8	11 h 48	6	Good coverage
April	15.8°C	2.7°C	94 mm	8.9	13 h 16	37	Strong coverage
May	21.5°C	8.8°C	100 mm	11.4	14 h 31	64	Strong coverage
June	26.2°C	14.2°C	113 mm	9.5	15 h 11	74	Good coverage
July	28.7°C	16.9°C	109 mm	8.8	14 h 55	65	Good coverage
August	27.7°C	15.9°C	115 mm	8.9	13 h 51	70	Good coverage
September	23.8°C	11.9°C	109 mm	7.8	12 h 25	79	Good coverage
October	17°C	5.6°C	119 mm	8.2	11 h 01	43	Good coverage
November	10.8°C	-0.1°C	89 mm	7.1	9 h 46	18	Good coverage
December	5°C	-4.2°C	103 mm	9.6	9 h 10	5	Good coverage

Records at POUGHKEEPSIE, 1993–2019
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	21.7°C8 Jan 2007	-28.9°C21 Jan 1994	50 mm20 Jan 1996	189 mm1996 · driest 36 mm in 2016	25
February	25.0°C22 Feb 2018	-25.0°C5 Feb 1996	43 mm13 Feb 2019	192 mm2008 · driest 20 mm in 2002	24
March	30.0°C31 Mar 1998	-20.0°C7 Mar 2003	74 mm15 Mar 2017	159 mm2008 · driest 23 mm in 2006	24
April	33.3°C18 Apr 2002	-7.2°C6 Apr 2016	105 mm16 Apr 2007	205 mm2007 · driest 3 mm in 2001	25
May	35.0°C21 May 1996	-1.7°C1 May 2008	56 mm14 May 2002	161 mm1998 · driest 32 mm in 2007	25
June	35.6°C11 Jun 2008	2.8°C1 Jun 2001	71 mm7 Jun 2000	199 mm2013 · driest 18 mm in 1995	24
July	39.4°C16 Jul 1995	7.2°C3 Jul 2001	76 mm14 Jul 1996	250 mm1996 · driest 38 mm in 1999	24
August	37.8°C3 Aug 2006	6.7°C21 Aug 1998	113 mm28 Aug 2011	305 mm2011 · driest 19 mm in 1996	24
September	33.9°C7 Sep 2018	0.0°C30 Sep 2000	117 mm17 Sep 1999	257 mm2011 · driest 18 mm in 2005	24
October	30.6°C3 Oct 2019	-6.7°C20 Oct 1999	145 mm9 Oct 2005	415 mm2005 · driest 3 mm in 2008	24
November	26.1°C5 Nov 1994	-13.9°C23 Nov 2018	69 mm17 Nov 2002	214 mm2018 · driest 11 mm in 2011	25
December	22.2°C8 Dec 1998	-17.8°C15 Dec 2005	77 mm12 Dec 2008	185 mm2003 · driest 27 mm in 1998	24

Typical days per month at POUGHKEEPSIE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	28	3	5
February	0	0	25	2	4
March	<1	0	22	3	2
April	3	<1	9	3	<1
May	8	2	<1	3	0
June	18	5	0	3	0
July	25	12	0	4	0
August	24	9	0	4	0
September	11	3	0	3	0
October	2	<1	4	3	<1
November	0	0	17	3	<1
December	0	0	25	4	3

How often, not how much — every day in POUGHKEEPSIE’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%	31%	11%	37%	-1.4–5.0°C
February	<1%	27%	8%	29%	0.2–7.1°C
March	4%	26%	9%	29%	5.9–11.4°C
April	19%	30%	11%	36%	13.6–17.9°C
May	46%	37%	10%	49%	19.2–24.0°C
June	65%	32%	12%	43%	24.7–28.0°C
July	71%	28%	12%	34%	26.7–30.3°C
August	71%	29%	12%	28%	26.1–28.9°C
September	63%	26%	10%	32%	22.4–25.5°C
October	23%	27%	10%	26%	14.7–19.2°C
November	5%	24%	10%	25%	8.4–13.7°C
December	<1%	31%	11%	37%	2.1–7.8°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.

1994Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 20-year average. Warmest: 2006. Coolest: 2000.2018

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5132143
NOAA station: USC00306820 · POUGHKEEPSIE
Station distance: 3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 41.70°, 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 POUGHKEEPSIE is what differs

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Best time to visit
Poughkeepsie.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.