United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Queens.

September leads for comfortable weather in Queens: typically 24.6°C by day, 16.4°C at night, with 91 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high24.6°C

Typical low16.4°C

Rain in September91 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · May

84climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

83climate match

Outdoors

October

October · May · April

80climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 84 — days reach only 4.4°C, 20° 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

54.4° / -2.9°

Feb

55.6° / -2.2°

Mar

139.4° / 1.3°

Apr

4215.2° / 6.3°

May

6920.5° / 11.7°

Jun

7725.7° / 17.1°

Jul

6128.9° / 20.7°

Aug

6428.1° / 20.2°

Sep

8424.6° / 16.4°

Oct

6118.4° / 10.2°

Nov

3312.4° / 4.7°

Dec

57.2° / 0.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Queens — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 7 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	4.4°C	-2.9°C	82 mm	8	6.0°C	9 h 33	5	Strong coverage
February	5.6°C	-2.2°C	70 mm	7.6	4.3°C	10 h 35	5	Strong coverage
March	9.4°C	1.3°C	100 mm	8.6	4.8°C	11 h 49	13	Strong coverage
April	15.2°C	6.3°C	90 mm	8.8	7.9°C	13 h 14	42	Strong coverage
May	20.5°C	11.7°C	93 mm	9	12.6°C	14 h 25	69	Strong coverage
June	25.7°C	17.1°C	98 mm	8	18.1°C	15 h 04	77	Strong coverage
July	28.9°C	20.7°C	98 mm	7.5	22.2°C	14 h 49	61	Strong coverage
August	28.1°C	20.2°C	104 mm	6.9	23.1°C	13 h 47	64	Strong coverage
September	24.6°C	16.4°C	91 mm	7.1	21.4°C	12 h 25	84	Strong coverage
October	18.4°C	10.2°C	94 mm	7.1	17.3°C	11 h 03	61	Strong coverage
November	12.4°C	4.7°C	78 mm	7	12.7°C	9 h 51	33	Strong coverage
December	7.2°C	0.3°C	101 mm	9.1	9.0°C	9 h 16	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Queens 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

+1.8

Feb

+2.0

Mar

+1.2

Apr

+0.9

May

+0.8

Jun

+0.9

Jul

+1.4

Aug

+0.6

Sep

+1.1

Oct

+1.2

Nov

+0.7

Dec

+2.0

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.9°C.

Records at JFK INTL AP, 1948–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	21.7°C6 Jan 2007	-18.9°C21 Jan 1985	96 mm3 Jan 1999	212 mm1979 · driest 0 mm in 1952	78
February	21.7°C27 Feb 1997	-18.9°C8 Feb 1963	63 mm9 Feb 1969	153 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1956	78
March	29.4°C13 Mar 1990	-13.9°C19 Mar 1967	80 mm23 Mar 2024	251 mm2024 · driest 0 mm in 1953	78
April	32.2°C12 Apr 1977	-6.7°C7 Apr 1982	119 mm30 Apr 2014	242 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1952	78
May	37.2°C29 May 1969	1.1°C10 May 1966	73 mm29 May 1968	272 mm1989 · driest 0 mm in 1952	78
June	38.9°C24 Jun 2025	7.2°C1 Jun 1967	159 mm30 Jun 1984	235 mm2003 · driest 0 mm in 1952	78
July	40.0°C3 Jul 1966	12.8°C9 Jul 1963	89 mm31 Jul 1996	224 mm1996 · driest 0 mm in 1951	79
August	38.3°C27 Aug 1948	7.8°C31 Aug 1965	198 mm14 Aug 2011	438 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 1955	78
September	36.7°C10 Sep 1983	4.4°C25 Sep 1950	205 mm29 Sep 2023	331 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1952	78
October	35.0°C2 Oct 2019	-1.1°C28 Oct 1976	118 mm14 Oct 2005	380 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1952	78
November	27.8°C1 Nov 2024	-9.3°C23 Nov 2018	100 mm8 Nov 1972	242 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 1953	78
December	23.9°C7 Dec 1998	-16.7°C25 Dec 1983	77 mm9 Dec 2014	204 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 1958	78

Typical days per month at JFK INTL AP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	22	3	5
February	0	0	20	2	4
March	<1	0	12	3	3
April	1	<1	1	3	<1
May	6	1	0	3	0
June	18	5	0	3	0
July	28	12	0	3	0
August	28	8	0	3	0
September	15	2	0	3	0
October	2	<1	<1	3	0
November	0	0	4	3	<1
December	0	0	16	4	3

How often, not how much — every day in JFK 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%	27%	0.9–7.0°C
February	<1%	28%	9%	32%	1.8–8.0°C
March	2%	28%	11%	33%	7.1–11.8°C
April	14%	29%	10%	37%	13.0–16.5°C
May	42%	29%	11%	38%	18.3–21.9°C
June	70%	27%	9%	28%	23.8–26.9°C
July	75%	25%	10%	25%	27.1–30.3°C
August	77%	23%	9%	22%	26.4–29.2°C
September	70%	23%	10%	21%	22.8–25.6°C
October	32%	21%	8%	18%	16.6–20.3°C
November	4%	24%	9%	25%	10.3–14.3°C
December	<1%	29%	10%	34%	3.7–9.5°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.

1949Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 77-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1967.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5133273
NOAA station: USW00094789 · JFK INTL AP
Station distance: 7.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 40.68°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 7 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 JFK INTL AP is what differs

Jamaica→East New York→Richmond Hill→South Ozone Park→Ozone Park→Briarwood→

Or put two places side by side: Queens vs Jamaica

Best time to visitQueens.