United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Carefree Foothills.

March leads for comfortable weather in Carefree Foothills: typically 23.5°C by day, 9.3°C at night, with 41 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMarch

Typical high23.5°C

Typical low9.3°C

Rain in March41 mm

Comfort

March

March · November · April

87climate match

Beach

October

October · September · May

83climate match

Outdoors

February

February · November · March

91climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 31 against March’s 87 — days average 39.6°C, 16° above 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

6117.9° / 5.7°

Feb

6919.6° / 6.8°

Mar

8723.5° / 9.3°

Apr

8327.6° / 12.1°

May

6832.8° / 16.6°

Jun

4238.1° / 21.6°

Jul

3139.6° / 24.9°

Aug

3139° / 24.8°

Sep

4836.1° / 21.8°

Oct

7929.8° / 15.9°

Nov

8722.9° / 9.9°

Dec

6217.6° / 5.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Carefree Foothills — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	17.9°C	5.7°C	45 mm	3.7	10 h 08	61	Strong coverage
February	19.6°C	6.8°C	43 mm	3.9	10 h 55	69	Strong coverage
March	23.5°C	9.3°C	41 mm	2.8	11 h 52	87	Strong coverage
April	27.6°C	12.1°C	11 mm	1.2	12 h 59	83	Strong coverage
May	32.8°C	16.6°C	6 mm	1.1	13 h 54	68	Strong coverage
June	38.1°C	21.6°C	3 mm	0.3	14 h 23	42	Strong coverage
July	39.6°C	24.9°C	21 mm	3	14 h 12	31	Strong coverage
August	39°C	24.8°C	41 mm	3.8	13 h 24	31	Strong coverage
September	36.1°C	21.8°C	28 mm	2.1	12 h 20	48	Strong coverage
October	29.8°C	15.9°C	26 mm	2.2	11 h 17	79	Strong coverage
November	22.9°C	9.9°C	24 mm	2	10 h 22	87	Strong coverage
December	17.6°C	5.6°C	31 mm	2.9	9 h 55	62	Strong coverage

What has changed

Carefree Foothills runs +1.9°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

+0.9

Feb

+1.1

Mar

+2.3

Apr

+2.5

May

+0.9

Jun

+2.6

Jul

+1.7

Aug

+2.6

Sep

+2.3

Oct

+2.0

Nov

+2.3

Dec

+1.8

March daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.2°C.

Records at CAREFREE, 1962–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.9°C19 Jan 1971	-9.4°C7 Jan 1971	48 mm26 Jan 2013	238 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1972	56
February	31.1°C27 Feb 2026	-7.2°C3 Feb 2011	56 mm25 Feb 1987	158 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1972	56
March	38.9°C21 Mar 2026	-4.4°C2 Mar 1971	94 mm19 Mar 1983	198 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1971	57
April	38.9°C29 Apr 2020	0.0°C2 Apr 1999	40 mm2 Apr 2004	85 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 2019	57
May	42.8°C30 May 2020	2.8°C5 May 1964	28 mm16 May 2015	59 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 2004	57
June	47.8°C20 Jun 2017	9.4°C2 Jun 1999	35 mm2 Jun 2025	40 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1983	59
July	47.8°C28 Jul 1995	13.3°C17 Jul 1972	45 mm18 Jul 2026	139 mm1968 · driest 0 mm in 1993	58
August	45.6°C7 Aug 2025	15.0°C4 Aug 1990	71 mm11 Aug 2018	120 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 2009	56
September	43.9°C6 Sep 2020	6.7°C20 Sep 1965	67 mm1 Sep 2023	108 mm2014 · driest 0 mm in 1988	56
October	41.7°C1 Oct 2024	0.0°C30 Oct 1971	91 mm19 Oct 1972	201 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 1967	56
November	33.3°C6 Nov 2020	-2.2°C16 Nov 1964	39 mm2 Nov 1995	95 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 2006	57
December	27.8°C3 Dec 2021	-6.7°C23 Dec 1990	82 mm1 Dec 2007	181 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 2024	56

Typical days per month at CAREFREE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	2	1
February	4	0	<1	2
March	12	2	<1	1
April	20	9	0	<1
May	26	21	0	<1
June	28	27	0	<1
July	27	27	0	<1
August	28	28	0	1
September	27	26	0	<1
October	23	16	0	<1
November	10	2	<1	<1
December	<1	0	2	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was April (scoring 84); on 2011–2025 it is November (91). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in CAREFREE’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	32%	11%	4%	9%	15.7–19.9°C
February	50%	12%	5%	14%	17.2–22.4°C
March	73%	11%	5%	10%	19.7–26.2°C
April	90%	5%	1%	2%	24.1–29.6°C
May	97%	3%	<1%	<1%	30.2–34.8°C
June	98%	2%	<1%	<1%	35.5–40.1°C
July	89%	12%	3%	7%	37.8–40.9°C
August	88%	13%	4%	9%	36.7–40.7°C
September	91%	9%	3%	7%	33.5–37.2°C
October	91%	8%	3%	5%	27.0–32.4°C
November	71%	8%	3%	4%	19.9–25.6°C
December	33%	10%	4%	5%	15.4–19.9°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.

1963Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 47-year average. Warmest: 2020. Coolest: 1964.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5288516
NOAA station: USC00021282 · CAREFREE
Station distance: 4.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 33.80°, 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 CAREFREE is what differs

Cave Creek→Carefree→Camp Creek→Desert Wind→Dove Valley Ranch→Lone Mountain Ranch→

Or put two places side by side: Carefree Foothills vs Cave Creek

Best time to visitCarefree Foothills.

March

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February

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Carefree Foothills runs +1.9°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Carefree Foothills.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Carefree Foothills runs +1.9°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.