United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Polk.

September leads for comfortable weather in Polk: typically 23.8°C by day, 10.8°C at night, with 99 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high23.8°C

Typical low10.8°C

Rain in September99 mm

Comfort

September

September · August · June

78climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

59climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · October

69climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 78 — days reach only 1.4°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

51.4° / -7.7°

Feb

52.7° / -7.5°

Mar

57.8° / -3.8°

Apr

3115.7° / 1.6°

May

6422° / 7.6°

Jun

6926.4° / 12.9°

Jul

6628.5° / 15.2°

Aug

7227.6° / 14.4°

Sep

7823.8° / 10.8°

Oct

4216.8° / 4.7°

Nov

119.6° / -0.4°

Dec

53.7° / -4.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Polk — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	1.4°C	-7.7°C	85 mm	12.6	9 h 29	5	Strong coverage
February	2.7°C	-7.5°C	68 mm	10	10 h 33	5	Strong coverage
March	7.8°C	-3.8°C	88 mm	10.7	11 h 48	5	Strong coverage
April	15.7°C	1.6°C	106 mm	11.8	13 h 16	31	Strong coverage
May	22°C	7.6°C	102 mm	10.9	14 h 29	64	Strong coverage
June	26.4°C	12.9°C	125 mm	10.7	15 h 09	69	Strong coverage
July	28.5°C	15.2°C	127 mm	9.9	14 h 53	66	Strong coverage
August	27.6°C	14.4°C	108 mm	8.9	13 h 50	72	Strong coverage
September	23.8°C	10.8°C	99 mm	8.6	12 h 25	78	Strong coverage
October	16.8°C	4.7°C	93 mm	10.9	11 h 01	42	Strong coverage
November	9.6°C	-0.4°C	85 mm	10.2	9 h 48	11	Strong coverage
December	3.7°C	-4.5°C	85 mm	11.8	9 h 12	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Polk runs +0.7°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

+0.3

Feb

+1.1

Mar

+0.7

Apr

+0.5

May

+1.0

Jun

+0.2

Jul

+0.8

Aug

+0.3

Sep

+1.2

Oct

+0.6

Nov

-0.2

Dec

+1.3

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.3°C.

Records at FRANKLIN, 1897–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	22.8°C21 Jan 1906	-34.4°C13 Jan 1912	54 mm25 Jan 1937	262 mm1937 · driest 21 mm in 1899	128
February	23.3°C25 Feb 2017	-32.8°C27 Feb 1963	46 mm7 Feb 1904	145 mm1909 · driest 10 mm in 1978	128
March	27.8°C25 Mar 1910	-30.0°C1 Mar 1934	56 mm25 Mar 1913	193 mm1913 · driest 15 mm in 1910	128
April	33.9°C18 Apr 1914	-17.8°C1 Apr 1923	71 mm28 Apr 1909	238 mm2011 · driest 15 mm in 1900	129
May	36.1°C29 May 1911	-6.7°C10 May 1966	76 mm18 May 1928	238 mm1946 · driest 13 mm in 1934	129
June	38.3°C29 Jun 1934	-2.2°C17 Jun 1908	114 mm9 Jun 1981	266 mm1989 · driest 24 mm in 1991	127
July	41.1°C10 Jul 1936	0.6°C15 Jul 1908	125 mm19 Jul 1996	287 mm1980 · driest 25 mm in 1998	129
August	40.0°C6 Aug 1918	2.2°C13 Aug 1930	135 mm14 Aug 1994	222 mm1964 · driest 20 mm in 1957	128
September	37.8°C1 Sep 1932	-5.0°C30 Sep 1899	102 mm9 Sep 2004	240 mm1924 · driest 0 mm in 1903	128
October	32.2°C5 Oct 1922	-9.4°C29 Oct 1965	102 mm16 Oct 1954	227 mm1917 · driest 3 mm in 1963	126
November	27.2°C3 Nov 1961	-17.8°C28 Nov 1904	68 mm12 Nov 2022	279 mm1985 · driest 16 mm in 1899	125
December	23.3°C4 Dec 1982	-25.6°C28 Dec 1950	57 mm1 Dec 2010	184 mm1971 · driest 18 mm in 1965	126

Typical days per month at FRANKLIN, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	28	3	9
February	0	0	26	2	7
March	<1	0	24	3	4
April	3	<1	13	4	<1
May	11	3	2	4	0
June	20	7	0	4	0
July	27	11	0	4	0
August	25	8	0	4	0
September	13	3	0	3	0
October	2	<1	5	3	0
November	0	0	18	3	2
December	0	0	26	3	6

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was August (scoring 79); on 2011–2025 it is September (86). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in FRANKLIN’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%	38%	8%	50%	-2.0–5.1°C
February	<1%	35%	7%	47%	-0.7–5.8°C
March	5%	36%	9%	53%	4.2–11.8°C
April	18%	39%	11%	53%	12.0–18.3°C
May	43%	37%	12%	50%	18.9–24.6°C
June	62%	34%	13%	43%	24.2–28.1°C
July	69%	31%	13%	37%	26.9–30.7°C
August	70%	29%	11%	34%	25.8–29.6°C
September	60%	28%	10%	33%	21.9–26.4°C
October	29%	33%	9%	42%	14.2–20.1°C
November	4%	38%	9%	52%	7.4–12.4°C
December	<1%	38%	8%	54%	0.2–6.7°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.

1897Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 114-year average. Warmest: 1921. Coolest: 1978.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5206800
NOAA station: USC00363028 · FRANKLIN
Station distance: 9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 41.37°, 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 FRANKLIN is what differs

Oil City→Franklin→Sugarcreek→Hasson Heights→Woodland Heights→Seneca→

Or put two places side by side: Polk vs Oil City

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Polk runs +0.7°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Polk.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Polk runs +0.7°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.