United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Madison.

September leads for comfortable weather in Madison: typically 24°C by day, 14.8°C at night, with 98 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high24°C

Typical low14.8°C

Rain in September98 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · August

87climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

73climate match

Outdoors

May

May · October · September

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 87 — days reach only 2.1°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

52.1° / -5.1°

Feb

53.2° / -4.8°

Mar

57.3° / -1.4°

Apr

3314° / 4.3°

May

6620.1° / 10.4°

Jun

8225.1° / 16°

Jul

6727.5° / 19°

Aug

7227.1° / 18.4°

Sep

8724° / 14.8°

Oct

5217.7° / 9.1°

Nov

2311° / 3.4°

Dec

55° / -1.4°

Monthly climate evidence for Madison — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 13 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	2.1°C	-5.1°C	82 mm	11.4	2.0°C	9 h 27	5	Strong coverage
February	3.2°C	-4.8°C	56 mm	8.5	0.7°C	10 h 31	5	Strong coverage
March	7.3°C	-1.4°C	73 mm	9.7	1.2°C	11 h 48	5	Strong coverage
April	14°C	4.3°C	91 mm	10.2	4.3°C	13 h 17	33	Strong coverage
May	20.1°C	10.4°C	83 mm	10.2	10.2°C	14 h 31	66	Strong coverage
June	25.1°C	16°C	89 mm	8.9	17.4°C	15 h 12	82	Strong coverage
July	27.5°C	19°C	103 mm	8.3	22.5°C	14 h 56	67	Strong coverage
August	27.1°C	18.4°C	86 mm	8	23.4°C	13 h 51	72	Strong coverage
September	24°C	14.8°C	98 mm	7.5	21.2°C	12 h 26	87	Strong coverage
October	17.7°C	9.1°C	104 mm	11.2	16.3°C	11 h 00	52	Strong coverage
November	11°C	3.4°C	82 mm	10.4	10.6°C	9 h 46	23	Strong coverage
December	5°C	-1.4°C	80 mm	10.8	5.7°C	9 h 09	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Madison runs +1.3°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

+1.7

Feb

+2.4

Mar

+1.5

Apr

+0.9

May

+1.0

Jun

+0.7

Jul

+0.8

Aug

+0.9

Sep

+1.2

Oct

+1.3

Nov

+0.7

Dec

+2.4

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.3°C.

Records at PAINESVILLE 4 NW, 1950–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	21.1°C12 Jan 2020	-28.3°C19 Jan 1994	57 mm16 Jan 1995	167 mm1950 · driest 5 mm in 1961	76
February	25.0°C24 Feb 2017	-22.8°C26 Feb 1963	53 mm27 Feb 1997	136 mm2008 · driest 3 mm in 1987	77
March	27.8°C30 Mar 1998	-17.8°C1 Mar 1980	71 mm9 Mar 2024	279 mm2024 · driest 12 mm in 2021	77
April	32.8°C28 Apr 1986	-8.3°C8 Apr 1982	93 mm8 Apr 2000	175 mm2011 · driest 8 mm in 2012	77
May	33.9°C29 May 2012	-3.9°C24 May 1963	76 mm11 May 2024	188 mm1989 · driest 23 mm in 1998	77
June	36.7°C25 Jun 1988	2.8°C2 Jun 1966	85 mm29 Jun 2024	221 mm2024 · driest 25 mm in 1959	77
July	36.1°C12 Jul 2025	6.1°C4 Jul 1968	185 mm20 Jul 2013	371 mm2006 · driest 17 mm in 1991	76
August	35.6°C31 Aug 1951	3.9°C29 Aug 1982	84 mm12 Aug 2021	242 mm1956 · driest 12 mm in 1969	75
September	35.6°C4 Sep 1953	-2.8°C25 Sep 1989	70 mm14 Sep 1979	241 mm1996 · driest 23 mm in 1963	76
October	32.8°C4 Oct 1951	-4.4°C31 Oct 1988	89 mm15 Oct 1954	288 mm1954 · driest 10 mm in 1956	75
November	27.2°C3 Nov 1961	-15.0°C30 Nov 1976	60 mm5 Nov 1985	228 mm1985 · driest 19 mm in 1976	76
December	23.9°C3 Dec 1982	-23.9°C25 Dec 1983	69 mm1 Dec 2006	166 mm2008 · driest 20 mm in 1960	76

Typical days per month at PAINESVILLE 4 NW, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	25	2	7
February	0	0	23	1	5
March	<1	0	19	3	3
April	2	<1	5	3	<1
May	7	1	0	3	0
June	16	4	0	3	0
July	26	6	0	3	0
August	25	5	0	3	0
September	13	3	0	3	0
October	3	<1	<1	4	0
November	<1	0	8	3	2
December	0	0	18	3	5

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 88); on 2011–2025 it is September (89). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in PAINESVILLE 4 NW’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%	34%	6%	43%	-1.7–5.1°C
February	<1%	29%	5%	34%	-0.4–6.4°C
March	5%	31%	8%	42%	3.7–11.9°C
April	14%	36%	10%	47%	11.5–16.3°C
May	34%	32%	9%	40%	17.5–22.3°C
June	64%	29%	10%	33%	23.4–26.5°C
July	74%	26%	10%	28%	25.9–29.0°C
August	74%	26%	10%	28%	25.5–28.3°C
September	63%	27%	10%	31%	22.0–25.6°C
October	25%	33%	11%	44%	15.5–19.9°C
November	5%	37%	9%	50%	7.8–13.6°C
December	<1%	35%	7%	47%	1.1–8.1°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.

1950Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 72-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1958.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5161567
NOAA station: USC00336389 · PAINESVILLE 4 NW
Station distance: 20.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 41.77°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 13 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 PAINESVILLE 4 NW is what differs

Painesville→North Madison→Mentor-on-the-Lake→Fairport Harbor→Perry→North Perry→

Or put two places side by side: Madison vs Painesville

Best time to visitMadison.

September

August

May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Madison runs +1.3°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Madison.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Madison runs +1.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.