United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Bristol.

August leads for comfortable weather in Bristol: typically 23.8°C by day, 11.7°C at night, with 119 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high23.8°C

Typical low11.7°C

Rain in August119 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · June

76climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

40climate match

Outdoors

September

September · June · August

77climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 76 — days reach only -2.8°C, 27° 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

5-2.8° / -14.2°

Feb

5-1.6° / -13.5°

Mar

53° / -8.7°

Apr

1210.5° / -1.6°

May

4417.9° / 5°

Jun

6522.2° / 9.9°

Jul

7424.6° / 12.6°

Aug

7623.8° / 11.7°

Sep

5819.8° / 7.3°

Oct

1912.9° / 1.9°

Nov

56.6° / -3.2°

Dec

50.4° / -9.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Bristol — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-2.8°C	-14.2°C	70 mm	10.8	9 h 13	5	Strong coverage
February	-1.6°C	-13.5°C	64 mm	9.1	10 h 23	5	Strong coverage
March	3°C	-8.7°C	80 mm	10	11 h 47	5	Strong coverage
April	10.5°C	-1.6°C	85 mm	9.7	13 h 23	12	Strong coverage
May	17.9°C	5°C	109 mm	11.2	14 h 44	44	Strong coverage
June	22.2°C	9.9°C	124 mm	11.7	15 h 29	65	Strong coverage
July	24.6°C	12.6°C	124 mm	10.5	15 h 11	74	Strong coverage
August	23.8°C	11.7°C	119 mm	9.4	14 h 01	76	Strong coverage
September	19.8°C	7.3°C	100 mm	8.7	12 h 27	58	Strong coverage
October	12.9°C	1.9°C	124 mm	11.9	10 h 55	19	Strong coverage
November	6.6°C	-3.2°C	91 mm	11	9 h 34	5	Strong coverage
December	0.4°C	-9.5°C	91 mm	12.3	8 h 53	5	Strong coverage

Records at S LINCOLN, 1981–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	17.8°C14 Jan 2005	-37.2°C17 Jan 1994	46 mm10 Jan 2024	126 mm2023 · driest 17 mm in 2026	44
February	18.3°C22 Feb 2018	-34.4°C4 Feb 2023	58 mm25 Feb 2016	134 mm2008 · driest 5 mm in 2026	43
March	25.6°C23 Mar 2012	-28.9°C7 Mar 2007	65 mm7 Mar 2011	147 mm2001 · driest 3 mm in 2024	45
April	31.7°C28 Apr 2009	-22.2°C6 Apr 2016	86 mm29 Apr 1988	182 mm2000 · driest 8 mm in 2001	44
May	31.1°C28 May 2020	-7.8°C4 May 2005	55 mm12 May 2015	233 mm1984 · driest 14 mm in 2023	44
June	33.3°C11 Jun 2008	-3.3°C3 Jun 1986	93 mm27 Jun 1998	219 mm2017 · driest 28 mm in 1995	44
July	34.4°C15 Jul 1995	1.1°C2 Jul 1992	72 mm26 Jul 2009	266 mm2023 · driest 27 mm in 2025	44
August	32.8°C4 Aug 1988	-1.7°C29 Aug 1982	136 mm29 Aug 2011	272 mm2011 · driest 4 mm in 2025	43
September	35.6°C1 Sep 2010	-6.7°C23 Sep 1997	101 mm17 Sep 1999	240 mm1999 · driest 28 mm in 2004	44
October	29.4°C5 Oct 2023	-11.1°C31 Oct 1988	109 mm1 Oct 2010	294 mm2010 · driest 17 mm in 2017	44
November	22.8°C1 Nov 2024	-23.3°C23 Nov 2018	70 mm1 Nov 2019	195 mm2018 · driest 30 mm in 2012	44
December	16.7°C7 Dec 1998	-33.3°C27 Dec 1993	55 mm7 Dec 1983	181 mm1983 · driest 18 mm in 2019	44

Typical days per month at S LINCOLN, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	29	2	13
February	0	0	27	2	11
March	<1	0	28	2	10
April	<1	<1	19	3	3
May	4	<1	5	3	<1
June	9	1	<1	4	0
July	15	2	0	4	0
August	12	<1	<1	3	0
September	4	<1	2	3	0
October	<1	0	13	3	1
November	0	0	22	3	5
December	0	0	28	3	12

How often, not how much — every day in S LINCOLN’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%	35%	7%	49%	-7.0–0.4°C
February	0%	32%	5%	37%	-4.1–1.3°C
March	<1%	33%	8%	43%	0.2–5.9°C
April	7%	35%	10%	49%	8.1–13.5°C
May	28%	38%	12%	53%	15.0–20.3°C
June	46%	41%	14%	56%	20.8–24.0°C
July	61%	35%	13%	44%	23.1–26.4°C
August	59%	34%	13%	41%	22.5–25.0°C
September	39%	30%	11%	42%	17.8–21.9°C
October	10%	38%	12%	56%	10.5–15.5°C
November	<1%	38%	11%	56%	4.1–9.3°C
December	0%	39%	9%	55%	-2.7–3.6°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.

1982Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 40-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 1993.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5234183
NOAA station: USC00437612 · S LINCOLN
Station distance: 10.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 44.13°, 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 S LINCOLN is what differs

Lincoln→Granville→Alpine Village→Downingville→East Warren→New Haven→

Or put two places side by side: Bristol vs Lincoln

Best time to visitBristol.