May
May · September · October
78climate match
United States · 1991–2020
Best time to visit
Salina.
May leads for comfortable weather in Salina: typically 26.2°C by day, 7°C at night, with 13 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.
Best comfortMay
Typical high26.2°C
Typical low7°C
Rain in May13 mm
August
August · July · September
72climate match
April
April · October · May
85climate match
The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against May’s 78 — days reach only 6.9°C, 17° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -6.7°C.
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
56.9° / -6.7°
Feb
2210.8° / -4°
Mar
4616.4° / -0.8°
Apr
6821° / 2.7°
May
7826.2° / 7°
Jun
6632.7° / 11.9°
Jul
6234.3° / 16.3°
Aug
7032.4° / 15.5°
Sep
7528.7° / 10.3°
Oct
7121.5° / 3.5°
Nov
3413.5° / -2.5°
Dec
56.6° / -6.3°
| Month | Day | Night | Rain | Wet days | Daylight | Comfort | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.9°C | -6.7°C | 18 mm | 3.5 | 9 h 57 | 5 | Strong coverage |
| February | 10.8°C | -4°C | 18 mm | 3.7 | 10 h 49 | 22 | Strong coverage |
| March | 16.4°C | -0.8°C | 15 mm | 3.3 | 11 h 51 | 46 | Strong coverage |
| April | 21°C | 2.7°C | 12 mm | 2.4 | 13 h 03 | 68 | Strong coverage |
| May | 26.2°C | 7°C | 13 mm | 2.3 | 14 h 03 | 78 | Strong coverage |
| June | 32.7°C | 11.9°C | 7 mm | 1.4 | 14 h 35 | 66 | Strong coverage |
| July | 34.3°C | 16.3°C | 27 mm | 4.8 | 14 h 23 | 62 | Strong coverage |
| August | 32.4°C | 15.5°C | 32 mm | 5.1 | 13 h 31 | 70 | Strong coverage |
| September | 28.7°C | 10.3°C | 21 mm | 3.9 | 12 h 22 | 75 | Strong coverage |
| October | 21.5°C | 3.5°C | 21 mm | 3.4 | 11 h 12 | 71 | Strong coverage |
| November | 13.5°C | -2.5°C | 14 mm | 2.9 | 10 h 12 | 34 | Strong coverage |
| December | 6.6°C | -6.3°C | 20 mm | 3.7 | 9 h 43 | 5 | Strong coverage |
What has changed
Salina runs +0.8°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
0.0
Feb
+0.5
Mar
+0.8
Apr
+1.1
May
+0.6
Jun
+2.0
Jul
+1.5
Aug
+1.3
Sep
+1.1
Oct
+0.5
Nov
+0.3
Dec
-0.6
| Month | Record high | Record low | Wettest day | Wettest / driest month | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21.1°C29 Jan 1986 | -26.7°C4 Jan 1974 | 31 mm5 Jan 1995 | 62 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1994 | 55 |
| February | 22.2°C25 Feb 1986 | -23.9°C7 Feb 1989 | 38 mm26 Feb 1996 | 66 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1991 | 56 |
| March | 31.7°C21 Mar 2026 | -16.7°C3 Mar 2002 | 23 mm16 Mar 1975 | 69 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 1972 | 56 |
| April | 32.2°C29 Apr 1992 | -12.8°C4 Apr 2011 | 33 mm5 Apr 1997 | 74 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 2018 | 56 |
| May | 38.3°C31 May 2002 | -6.1°C15 May 2020 | 25 mm1 May 2016 | 62 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 2006 | 56 |
| June | 40.6°C21 Jun 2016 | -2.8°C1 Jun 1996 | 32 mm28 Jun 1988 | 52 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 2014 | 56 |
| July | 40.6°C18 Jul 2023 | 3.9°C6 Jul 1978 | 49 mm11 Jul 1988 | 86 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 1989 | 54 |
| August | 38.3°C2 Aug 2000 | 3.3°C28 Aug 1978 | 42 mm19 Aug 1994 | 123 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 2009 | 54 |
| September | 37.2°C1 Sep 1995 | -5.0°C19 Sep 1971 | 39 mm3 Sep 1994 | 68 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 2012 | 54 |
| October | 32.2°C1 Oct 2003 | -12.2°C31 Oct 2019 | 33 mm21 Oct 1979 | 113 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 2017 | 54 |
| November | 28.3°C13 Nov 2025 | -19.4°C28 Nov 1976 | 31 mm1 Nov 1986 | 57 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 1989 | 55 |
| December | 19.4°C1 Dec 1995 | -25.6°C25 Dec 1990 | 25 mm13 Dec 1984 | 70 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 1976 | 56 |
| Month | Days 25°C+ | Days 30°C+ | Frost nights | Heavy rain (10 mm+) | Snow days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 0 | 28 | <1 | <1 |
| February | 0 | 0 | 24 | <1 | <1 |
| March | 1 | 0 | 19 | <1 | <1 |
| April | 7 | <1 | 9 | <1 | <1 |
| May | 19 | 7 | 1 | <1 | 0 |
| June | 27 | 23 | <1 | <1 | 0 |
| July | 30 | 28 | 0 | <1 | 0 |
| August | 29 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| September | 25 | 12 | <1 | <1 | 0 |
| October | 8 | <1 | 7 | <1 | <1 |
| November | 0 | 0 | 22 | <1 | <1 |
| December | 0 | 0 | 27 | <1 | 1 |
| Month | Warm & dry days | Wet days | Washouts | Week with 3+ wet days | Daytime mean has ranged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | <1% | 12% | 1% | 7% | 2.4–10.6°C |
| February | 3% | 13% | 1% | 10% | 7.8–14.0°C |
| March | 24% | 12% | 1% | 10% | 13.3–19.3°C |
| April | 64% | 8% | 1% | 4% | 18.6–22.9°C |
| May | 85% | 8% | 1% | 6% | 23.0–28.9°C |
| June | 95% | 5% | <1% | 2% | 29.9–34.6°C |
| July | 84% | 16% | 2% | 17% | 31.8–35.5°C |
| August | 83% | 17% | 3% | 14% | 30.7–34.0°C |
| September | 86% | 14% | 2% | 12% | 26.8–30.0°C |
| October | 64% | 12% | 2% | 9% | 19.1–23.6°C |
| November | 13% | 10% | 2% | 6% | 10.9–15.6°C |
| December | 0% | 11% | 2% | 6% | 4.0–10.2°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.
The evidence behind this page
Nearby, measured,
and named.
- Place identity
- GeoNames 5284648
- NOAA station
- USC00021248 · CANYON DE CHELLY
- Station distance
- 32.9 km from the place centre
- Climate period
- 1991–2020
- Minimum month coverage
- 28 usable years
- Daylight
- Calculated from latitude 36.02°, 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.