United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Cataract.

August leads for comfortable weather in Cataract: typically 27.2°C by day, 14.4°C at night, with 109 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high27.2°C

Typical low14.4°C

Rain in August109 mm

Comfort

August

August · September · June

73climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

66climate match

Outdoors

September

September · May · October

74climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 73 — days reach only -3.7°C, 28° 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

5-3.7° / -14.1°

Feb

5-0.9° / -12°

Mar

55.9° / -5.5°

Apr

2713.6° / 0.9°

May

5820.7° / 7.7°

Jun

7026.1° / 13.6°

Jul

7028.4° / 15.7°

Aug

7327.2° / 14.4°

Sep

7322.8° / 9.5°

Oct

4015.2° / 2.5°

Nov

56.5° / -3.7°

Dec

5-0.7° / -10°

Monthly climate evidence for Cataract — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-3.7°C	-14.1°C	26 mm	5.3	9 h 13	5	Strong coverage
February	-0.9°C	-12°C	25 mm	4.4	10 h 23	5	Strong coverage
March	5.9°C	-5.5°C	43 mm	6.4	11 h 47	5	Strong coverage
April	13.6°C	0.9°C	92 mm	9.1	13 h 23	27	Strong coverage
May	20.7°C	7.7°C	118 mm	10.5	14 h 44	58	Strong coverage
June	26.1°C	13.6°C	135 mm	10.2	15 h 28	70	Strong coverage
July	28.4°C	15.7°C	103 mm	8.2	15 h 11	70	Strong coverage
August	27.2°C	14.4°C	109 mm	8.6	14 h 00	73	Strong coverage
September	22.8°C	9.5°C	95 mm	8.4	12 h 27	73	Strong coverage
October	15.2°C	2.5°C	65 mm	7.6	10 h 55	40	Strong coverage
November	6.5°C	-3.7°C	48 mm	5.4	9 h 34	5	Strong coverage
December	-0.7°C	-10°C	33 mm	5.5	8 h 54	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Cataract runs -0.1°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

+1.0

Feb

-0.6

Mar

+0.3

Apr

-2.3

May

-1.2

Jun

+0.2

Jul

-0.3

Aug

-0.2

Sep

+0.9

Oct

-1.0

Nov

-0.2

Dec

+1.8

August daytime highs, 2011–2023. Last recorded: 28.5°C.

Records at SPARTA, 1893–2024
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	13.9°C26 Jan 1981	-44.4°C30 Jan 1951	31 mm25 Jan 1967	75 mm1969 · driest 0 mm in 1988	89
February	19.4°C28 Feb 2024	-40.6°C3 Feb 1996	38 mm19 Feb 1984	78 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 1990	89
March	28.9°C30 Mar 1986	-34.4°C1 Mar 1962	51 mm16 Mar 1983	106 mm1977 · driest 0 mm in 1999	89
April	33.3°C23 Apr 1980	-18.3°C6 Apr 1982	97 mm25 Apr 1994	189 mm2014 · driest 15 mm in 1946	84
May	35.0°C29 May 2018	-6.1°C10 May 1966	83 mm20 May 2022	256 mm2004 · driest 24 mm in 1939	89
June	37.8°C21 Jun 1988	-1.1°C4 Jun 1945	99 mm8 Jun 2008	265 mm1998 · driest 28 mm in 1893	89
July	41.1°C12 Jul 1936	4.4°C3 Jul 1968	116 mm1 Jul 1978	241 mm1978 · driest 1 mm in 1937	87
August	39.4°C24 Aug 2023	1.1°C25 Aug 1958	107 mm28 Aug 2018	316 mm1980 · driest 7 mm in 1969	89
September	37.2°C23 Sep 1937	-7.2°C29 Sep 1967	138 mm14 Sep 1994	294 mm1965 · driest 8 mm in 1979	83
October	32.2°C2 Oct 1976	-12.2°C27 Oct 1976	63 mm7 Oct 2017	135 mm1941 · driest 1 mm in 1952	87
November	25.6°C1 Nov 1938	-27.8°C27 Nov 1977	54 mm1 Nov 1984	123 mm1982 · driest 1 mm in 1976	89
December	19.4°C16 Dec 2021	-37.2°C27 Dec 1950	58 mm14 Dec 2015	144 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1990	87

Typical days per month at SPARTA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	30	<1	6
February	0	0	27	<1	6
March	<1	0	26	1	3
April	1	<1	14	3	1
May	8	2	2	4	0
June	20	7	0	4	0
July	26	11	0	4	0
August	23	7	0	4	0
September	11	3	<1	3	0
October	2	<1	12	2	<1
November	0	0	23	2	2
December	0	0	30	<1	6

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 77); on 2011–2025 it is September (80). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in SPARTA’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%	16%	2%	12%	-8.1–-0.5°C
February	0%	14%	2%	10%	-4.6–3.4°C
March	3%	21%	5%	21%	2.2–9.7°C
April	18%	29%	9%	36%	10.8–17.5°C
May	44%	32%	12%	39%	18.5–24.1°C
June	63%	33%	12%	40%	24.5–28.3°C
July	74%	25%	11%	24%	26.8–30.6°C
August	72%	27%	11%	27%	25.6–29.6°C
September	55%	27%	10%	30%	20.9–24.8°C
October	25%	22%	6%	21%	13.0–19.0°C
November	2%	19%	5%	15%	2.7–9.2°C
December	0%	17%	3%	13%	-4.7–2.5°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.

1937Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 76-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 2014.2023

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5248012
NOAA station: USC00477997 · SPARTA
Station distance: 17 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 44.09°, 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 SPARTA is what differs

Sparta→Bangor→Rockland→Tunnel City→Angelo→Burns→

Or put two places side by side: Cataract vs Sparta

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