United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Little Compton.

September leads for comfortable weather in Little Compton: typically 22.5°C by day, 14°C at night, with 88 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high22.5°C

Typical low14°C

Rain in September88 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · August

83climate match

Beach

July

July · August · September

72climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · June

78climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 83 — days reach only 3.3°C, 21° 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

53.3° / -4.5°

Feb

54.5° / -3.6°

Mar

57.7° / -0.7°

Apr

2912.9° / 4°

May

5818.1° / 9.2°

Jun

8222.9° / 14.3°

Jul

7826.3° / 17.9°

Aug

8025.9° / 17.6°

Sep

8322.5° / 14°

Oct

4916.7° / 8.2°

Nov

2411.3° / 3.2°

Dec

56.5° / -1.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Little Compton — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 16 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	3.3°C	-4.5°C	74 mm	7.5	6.0°C	9 h 29	5	Good coverage
February	4.5°C	-3.6°C	69 mm	7.6	4.0°C	10 h 32	5	Good coverage
March	7.7°C	-0.7°C	109 mm	7.8	4.1°C	11 h 48	5	Good coverage
April	12.9°C	4°C	102 mm	9.1	6.6°C	13 h 16	29	Good coverage
May	18.1°C	9.2°C	82 mm	8.7	10.9°C	14 h 30	58	Good coverage
June	22.9°C	14.3°C	93 mm	8.1	15.8°C	15 h 10	82	Good coverage
July	26.3°C	17.9°C	77 mm	6.7	19.8°C	14 h 54	78	Good coverage
August	25.9°C	17.6°C	76 mm	6.7	20.8°C	13 h 50	80	Good coverage
September	22.5°C	14°C	88 mm	6.7	19.2°C	12 h 25	83	Good coverage
October	16.7°C	8.2°C	107 mm	8.4	16.2°C	11 h 01	49	Good coverage
November	11.3°C	3.2°C	94 mm	7.7	12.6°C	9 h 47	24	Good coverage
December	6.5°C	-1.2°C	96 mm	8.7	9.1°C	9 h 11	5	Good coverage

Records at NEWPORT STATE AP, 1996–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	19.4°C12 Jan 2020	-21.1°C16 Jan 2004	57 mm20 Jan 2019	162 mm2023 · driest 18 mm in 2020	30
February	20.6°C16 Feb 2023	-22.1°C14 Feb 2016	50 mm13 Feb 2008	151 mm2018 · driest 9 mm in 2004	30
March	23.3°C27 Mar 1998	-16.0°C1 Mar 2015	106 mm30 Mar 2001	279 mm2001 · driest 13 mm in 2006	30
April	31.1°C26 Apr 2009	-5.5°C6 Apr 2016	59 mm15 Apr 2007	188 mm2007 · driest 22 mm in 2010	29
May	32.8°C26 May 2010	0.0°C1 May 2000	73 mm16 May 2024	234 mm2025 · driest 9 mm in 2015	29
June	36.1°C24 Jun 2025	5.6°C1 Jun 2001	87 mm7 Jun 2013	252 mm2006 · driest 6 mm in 1999	30
July	36.7°C6 Jul 2010	10.0°C14 Jul 1999	83 mm4 Jul 2014	227 mm2009 · driest 10 mm in 2022	31
August	33.9°C2 Aug 2006	9.4°C19 Aug 2007	68 mm29 Aug 2009	163 mm2021 · driest 28 mm in 2002	30
September	32.8°C9 Sep 2016	3.9°C22 Sep 1997	130 mm2 Sep 2021	238 mm2021 · driest 15 mm in 2014	30
October	28.9°C9 Oct 2011	-2.2°C25 Oct 2003	82 mm15 Oct 2005	269 mm2005 · driest 7 mm in 2013	30
November	23.9°C7 Nov 2022	-9.3°C23 Nov 2018	82 mm22 Nov 2005	231 mm2018 · driest 8 mm in 2012	30
December	21.1°C4 Dec 1998	-14.9°C31 Dec 2017	79 mm11 Dec 2024	157 mm2020 · driest 35 mm in 1998	30

Typical days per month at NEWPORT STATE AP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	24	3
February	0	0	23	2
March	0	0	18	3
April	<1	0	4	4
May	2	<1	0	3
June	10	1	0	3
July	22	4	0	2
August	21	3	0	2
September	7	<1	0	3
October	<1	0	<1	4
November	0	0	8	3
December	0	0	20	3

How often, not how much — every day in NEWPORT STATE 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	0%	25%	9%	25%	1.0–6.3°C
February	<1%	28%	8%	35%	1.4–6.8°C
March	<1%	26%	10%	30%	5.8–10.3°C
April	7%	31%	12%	34%	11.5–14.4°C
May	29%	29%	10%	31%	16.6–19.6°C
June	63%	26%	10%	27%	21.7–24.6°C
July	78%	22%	8%	20%	24.2–27.9°C
August	77%	23%	7%	20%	24.6–27.4°C
September	64%	24%	10%	25%	21.3–23.5°C
October	20%	27%	11%	26%	15.3–18.9°C
November	2%	25%	10%	27%	9.4–13.6°C
December	<1%	28%	10%	32%	4.1–9.0°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.

1997Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 29-year average. Warmest: 2020. Coolest: 2003.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5223129
NOAA station: USW00014787 · NEWPORT STATE AP
Station distance: 9.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 22 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 41.51°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 16 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 NEWPORT STATE AP is what differs

Middletown→Newport East→Melville→Acoaxet→Bahia Corner→Lawtons→

Or put two places side by side: Little Compton vs Middletown

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

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Best time to visit
Little Compton.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.