United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Elbow.

October leads for comfortable weather in Elbow: typically 26.1°C by day, 11.8°C at night, with 49 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high26.1°C

Typical low11.8°C

Rain in October49 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · March

85climate match

Beach

September

September · May · June

79climate match

Outdoors

November

November · March · April

91climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 42 against October’s 85 — days reach only 14.5°C, 9° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 0°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

4214.5° / 0°

Feb

5316.9° / 1.8°

Mar

7621.5° / 6°

Apr

8326.6° / 10.3°

May

7330.8° / 15.5°

Jun

5134.4° / 20.2°

Jul

4835.4° / 22.3°

Aug

4634.7° / 21.9°

Sep

6731.2° / 17.9°

Oct

8526.1° / 11.8°

Nov

6819.8° / 5.1°

Dec

4314.6° / 0.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Elbow — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	14.5°C	0°C	19 mm	2.1	10 h 15	42	Strong coverage
February	16.9°C	1.8°C	21 mm	2.3	10 h 59	53	Strong coverage
March	21.5°C	6°C	32 mm	2.7	11 h 53	76	Strong coverage
April	26.6°C	10.3°C	38 mm	2.4	12 h 55	83	Strong coverage
May	30.8°C	15.5°C	57 mm	3.6	13 h 47	73	Strong coverage
June	34.4°C	20.2°C	66 mm	4.7	14 h 15	51	Strong coverage
July	35.4°C	22.3°C	42 mm	3.5	14 h 04	48	Strong coverage
August	34.7°C	21.9°C	69 mm	4.4	13 h 20	46	Strong coverage
September	31.2°C	17.9°C	58 mm	4.2	12 h 20	67	Strong coverage
October	26.1°C	11.8°C	49 mm	3.4	11 h 20	85	Strong coverage
November	19.8°C	5.1°C	32 mm	1.8	10 h 28	68	Good coverage
December	14.6°C	0.5°C	17 mm	2	10 h 03	43	Strong coverage

Records at BIG SPRING, 1948–2021
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	29.4°C4 Jan 2006	-18.9°C12 Jan 1962	48 mm16 Jan 2017	87 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1959	69
February	32.8°C12 Feb 2017	-20.6°C2 Feb 1985	58 mm24 Feb 1992	116 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1996	69
March	36.1°C28 Mar 1971	-12.8°C11 Mar 1948	107 mm23 Mar 2000	125 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1980	70
April	40.6°C26 Apr 2012	-3.9°C9 Apr 1973	80 mm16 Apr 2010	143 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1991	68
May	42.8°C25 May 2000	-0.6°C14 May 1971	123 mm11 May 1994	232 mm1975 · driest 2 mm in 2004	69
June	45.6°C28 Jun 1994	6.1°C11 Jun 1995	79 mm30 Jun 2010	151 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 2011	67
July	43.3°C13 Jul 2020	10.6°C1 Jul 1995	80 mm23 Jul 1948	161 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2011	68
August	44.4°C26 Aug 2019	10.0°C8 Aug 1989	129 mm18 Aug 2007	194 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1994	68
September	42.2°C2 Sep 2000	3.9°C24 Sep 1989	127 mm29 Sep 2012	361 mm1980 · driest 0 mm in 1977	67
October	38.3°C3 Oct 2000	-7.2°C31 Oct 2019	87 mm3 Oct 1953	190 mm2018 · driest 0 mm in 1982	69
November	33.3°C9 Nov 1980	-9.4°C14 Nov 1976	89 mm6 Nov 2016	231 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1999	68
December	30.0°C4 Dec 1954	-17.2°C23 Dec 1989	41 mm8 Dec 1980	90 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 2015	70

Typical days per month at BIG SPRING, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	2	0	17	<1
February	4	<1	11	<1
March	11	3	4	1
April	19	10	<1	1
May	26	19	0	2
June	29	26	0	2
July	30	29	0	1
August	30	28	0	2
September	27	20	0	2
October	20	9	<1	2
November	7	<1	5	1
December	1	0	15	<1

How often, not how much — every day in BIG SPRING’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	23%	7%	2%	5%	10.9–17.0°C
February	38%	9%	3%	5%	12.9–19.9°C
March	60%	8%	2%	4%	18.3–23.7°C
April	80%	9%	4%	5%	23.9–28.7°C
May	82%	16%	7%	12%	28.0–32.3°C
June	86%	15%	6%	10%	31.5–36.4°C
July	88%	12%	5%	8%	32.7–36.8°C
August	86%	14%	6%	10%	32.4–36.1°C
September	83%	16%	7%	13%	28.5–33.5°C
October	80%	11%	5%	8%	23.0–27.6°C
November	54%	7%	2%	4%	16.3–22.1°C
December	25%	7%	2%	4%	12.5–17.2°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.

1948Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 50-year average. Warmest: 2011. Coolest: 1976.2019

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5285914
NOAA station: USW00023041 · BIG SPRING
Station distance: 10.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 32.16°, 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 BIG SPRING is what differs

Big Spring→Coahoma→Sand Springs→Forsan→Brown→Fairview→

Or put two places side by side: Elbow vs Big Spring

Best time to visitElbow.