United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Dunkirk.

September leads for comfortable weather in Dunkirk: typically 24.7°C by day, 12°C at night, with 70 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high24.7°C

Typical low12°C

Rain in September70 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · August

84climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

75climate match

Outdoors

October

October · May · September

77climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 84 — days reach only 0.7°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

50.7° / -7.3°

Feb

52.6° / -6.4°

Mar

108.5° / -1.9°

Apr

4116.2° / 4°

May

6821.8° / 9.8°

Jun

7727.1° / 15.7°

Jul

6729° / 17.5°

Aug

7528.2° / 16.5°

Sep

8424.7° / 12°

Oct

5617.7° / 5.8°

Nov

2010.1° / 0.6°

Dec

53.3° / -4.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Dunkirk — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	0.7°C	-7.3°C	74 mm	7.5	9 h 33	5	Good coverage
February	2.6°C	-6.4°C	54 mm	6.5	10 h 35	5	Good coverage
March	8.5°C	-1.9°C	65 mm	8.1	11 h 49	10	Good coverage
April	16.2°C	4°C	87 mm	9.4	13 h 14	41	Good coverage
May	21.8°C	9.8°C	101 mm	10.2	14 h 26	68	Good coverage
June	27.1°C	15.7°C	83 mm	8.4	15 h 05	77	Good coverage
July	29°C	17.5°C	94 mm	7.4	14 h 49	67	Good coverage
August	28.2°C	16.5°C	75 mm	6.5	13 h 48	75	Good coverage
September	24.7°C	12°C	70 mm	6.5	12 h 25	84	Good coverage
October	17.7°C	5.8°C	61 mm	6.5	11 h 03	56	Good coverage
November	10.1°C	0.6°C	70 mm	6.8	9 h 51	20	Good coverage
December	3.3°C	-4.5°C	61 mm	6.6	9 h 16	5	Good coverage

Records at KENTON, 1893–2010
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	21.7°C21 Jan 1906	-31.1°C13 Jan 1912	78 mm21 Jan 1959	232 mm1950 · driest 0 mm in 2003	116
February	23.3°C26 Feb 2000	-29.4°C10 Feb 1899	48 mm23 Feb 1975	166 mm2008 · driest 1 mm in 1987	118
March	28.3°C24 Mar 1910	-23.3°C12 Mar 1948	91 mm25 Mar 1913	236 mm1913 · driest 9 mm in 1910	117
April	32.8°C17 Apr 1896	-12.2°C1 Apr 1911	66 mm30 Apr 2004	220 mm1893 · driest 11 mm in 1962	118
May	35.6°C28 May 1911	-5.0°C1 May 1943	87 mm18 May 1969	195 mm1968 · driest 9 mm in 1934	117
June	40.0°C26 Jun 1988	-0.6°C8 Jun 1912	93 mm21 Jun 1937	234 mm1945 · driest 20 mm in 2001	117
July	41.1°C14 Jul 1936	5.0°C1 Jul 1937	102 mm13 Jul 2006	281 mm1915 · driest 11 mm in 1974	117
August	39.4°C18 Aug 1988	1.7°C31 Aug 1915	89 mm31 Aug 2005	196 mm1905 · driest 9 mm in 1983	117
September	38.3°C2 Sep 1953	-2.8°C23 Sep 1974	79 mm10 Sep 1905	197 mm1933 · driest 5 mm in 1963	116
October	33.3°C3 Oct 1898	-10.0°C29 Oct 1925	73 mm6 Oct 1910	185 mm1919 · driest 1 mm in 1963	115
November	26.1°C6 Nov 1895	-20.0°C30 Nov 1958	68 mm26 Nov 2010	191 mm1897 · driest 0 mm in 1917	117
December	21.7°C4 Dec 1982	-28.9°C27 Dec 1950	79 mm1 Dec 2006	196 mm1990 · driest 7 mm in 1955	113

Typical days per month at KENTON, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	24	2	4
February	0	0	23	2	4
March	<1	0	18	2	2
April	3	<1	5	3	<1
May	10	3	<1	4	0
June	21	9	0	3	0
July	28	13	0	3	0
August	26	11	0	3	0
September	15	4	<1	2	0
October	4	<1	3	2	<1
November	<1	0	14	2	<1
December	0	0	23	2	3

How often, not how much — every day in KENTON’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%	7%	27%	-2.7–4.9°C
February	<1%	25%	6%	25%	-1.0–5.7°C
March	5%	31%	9%	36%	5.0–12.7°C
April	20%	34%	10%	40%	12.9–18.8°C
May	47%	32%	10%	39%	19.3–25.0°C
June	67%	29%	11%	32%	24.7–29.2°C
July	74%	26%	11%	24%	27.6–31.4°C
August	75%	24%	9%	22%	26.7–30.4°C
September	66%	23%	9%	20%	22.7–27.2°C
October	33%	23%	7%	21%	15.4–20.8°C
November	5%	26%	7%	24%	6.9–12.3°C
December	<1%	26%	7%	27%	-0.4–6.2°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.

1893Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 105-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1978.2008

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5152413
NOAA station: USC00334189 · KENTON
Station distance: 15.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 17 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 40.79°, 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 KENTON is what differs

Kenton→Forest→La Rue→Mount Victory→McGuffey→Ridgeway→

Or put two places side by side: Dunkirk vs Kenton

Best time to visitDunkirk.