United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Milwaukee.

June leads for comfortable weather in Milwaukee: typically 24.4°C by day, 14.4°C at night, with 111 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJune

Typical high24.4°C

Typical low14.4°C

Rain in June111 mm

Comfort

June

June · September · August

82climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

72climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · October

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against June’s 82 — days reach only -1.1°C, 25° 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

5-1.1° / -8.5°

Feb

50.7° / -6.9°

Mar

56.2° / -2.1°

Apr

2512.1° / 2.9°

May

5718.7° / 8.5°

Jun

8224.4° / 14.4°

Jul

7327.2° / 17.9°

Aug

7526.4° / 17.6°

Sep

8222.5° / 13.3°

Oct

4915.8° / 6.8°

Nov

158.2° / 0.3°

Dec

51.7° / -5.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Milwaukee — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 10 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-1.1°C	-8.5°C	45 mm	7.9	3.3°C	9 h 20	5	Strong coverage
February	0.7°C	-6.9°C	43 mm	6.2	2.1°C	10 h 27	5	Strong coverage
March	6.2°C	-2.1°C	56 mm	7.6	2.0°C	11 h 47	5	Strong coverage
April	12.1°C	2.9°C	98 mm	9.3	3.2°C	13 h 20	25	Strong coverage
May	18.7°C	8.5°C	90 mm	9.3	5.8°C	14 h 38	57	Strong coverage
June	24.4°C	14.4°C	111 mm	8.8	12.3°C	15 h 21	82	Strong coverage
July	27.2°C	17.9°C	86 mm	7.3	19.3°C	15 h 04	73	Strong coverage
August	26.4°C	17.6°C	93 mm	7.6	21.1°C	13 h 56	75	Strong coverage
September	22.5°C	13.3°C	80 mm	6.7	18.8°C	12 h 26	82	Strong coverage
October	15.8°C	6.8°C	70 mm	7.4	13.1°C	10 h 57	49	Strong coverage
November	8.2°C	0.3°C	57 mm	6.7	8.0°C	9 h 39	15	Strong coverage
December	1.7°C	-5.3°C	48 mm	7.1	5.1°C	9 h 01	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Milwaukee runs +1.5°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

+2.6

Feb

+1.8

Mar

+1.9

Apr

+0.3

May

+0.8

Jun

+0.9

Jul

+0.9

Aug

+1.1

Sep

+1.7

Oct

+1.4

Nov

+1.4

Dec

+3.4

June daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.2°C.

Records at MILWAUKEE MITCHELL AP, 1938–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	17.2°C7 Jan 2008	-32.2°C17 Jan 1982	42 mm29 Jan 2013	111 mm1999 · driest 4 mm in 2025	88
February	23.3°C27 Feb 2024	-32.2°C3 Feb 1996	52 mm27 Feb 2023	109 mm2023 · driest 1 mm in 1969	88
March	28.9°C21 Mar 2012	-23.3°C1 Mar 1962	59 mm4 Mar 1976	176 mm1976 · driest 8 mm in 1968	88
April	32.8°C22 Apr 1980	-11.1°C7 Apr 1982	81 mm9 Apr 2015	241 mm2026 · driest 21 mm in 1942	89
May	35.0°C27 May 2018	-6.1°C10 May 1966	76 mm17 May 2020	214 mm2000 · driest 9 mm in 2026	89
June	38.3°C21 Jun 1988	0.6°C4 Jun 1945	134 mm22 Jun 1940	312 mm2008 · driest 18 mm in 1988	89
July	39.4°C13 Jul 1995	4.4°C1 Jul 1965	143 mm22 Jul 2010	278 mm2010 · driest 17 mm in 1939	89
August	39.4°C1 Aug 1988	6.7°C18 Aug 1963	173 mm6 Aug 1986	230 mm1987 · driest 12 mm in 1948	88
September	36.7°C1 Sep 1953	-2.2°C28 Sep 1942	121 mm11 Sep 2022	251 mm1941 · driest 1 mm in 1979	88
October	31.7°C6 Oct 1963	-7.8°C24 Oct 1981	59 mm24 Oct 1991	179 mm1991 · driest 4 mm in 1956	88
November	25.0°C1 Nov 1950	-20.6°C24 Nov 1950	56 mm10 Nov 1998	181 mm1985 · driest 9 mm in 2012	88
December	20.0°C16 Dec 2021	-28.9°C24 Dec 1983	57 mm2 Dec 1982	138 mm1987 · driest 8 mm in 1976	88

Typical days per month at MILWAUKEE MITCHELL AP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	28	1	10
February	0	0	25	2	8
March	<1	0	21	2	5
April	1	<1	6	4	2
May	7	1	<1	3	0
June	15	5	0	3	0
July	22	9	0	3	0
August	20	6	0	3	0
September	10	2	0	3	0
October	2	<1	2	2	<1
November	0	0	15	2	3
December	0	0	25	1	7

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 89); on 2011–2025 it is September (90). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in MILWAUKEE MITCHELL 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%	23%	3%	25%	-5.5–1.3°C
February	0%	21%	4%	20%	-3.4–4.0°C
March	3%	26%	7%	30%	2.2–8.9°C
April	10%	30%	10%	36%	9.7–14.8°C
May	29%	29%	9%	34%	15.5–21.0°C
June	57%	29%	10%	31%	22.0–26.5°C
July	74%	23%	9%	22%	25.0–28.7°C
August	73%	24%	9%	21%	24.2–28.0°C
September	52%	22%	9%	23%	20.3–24.2°C
October	20%	22%	7%	24%	13.0–18.2°C
November	3%	23%	6%	22%	4.6–10.5°C
December	0%	24%	5%	24%	-2.8–4.1°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.

1939Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 87-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1972.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5263045
NOAA station: USW00014839 · MILWAUKEE MITCHELL AP
Station distance: 9.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 43.04°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 10 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 MILWAUKEE MITCHELL AP is what differs

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June

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Milwaukee runs +1.5°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Milwaukee.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Milwaukee runs +1.5°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.