United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Central.

March leads for comfortable weather in Central: typically 23°C by day, 3.8°C at night, with 11 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMarch

Typical high23°C

Typical low3.8°C

Rain in March11 mm

Comfort

March

March · April · October

77climate match

Beach

July

July · August · September

73climate match

Outdoors

November

November · February · March

82climate match

The weakest month is December, scoring 44 against March’s 77 — nights drop to -1.3°C, and days reach only 15.8°C, 8° 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

4616.4° / -1.2°

Feb

5819° / 0.7°

Mar

7723° / 3.8°

Apr

7427.6° / 7.4°

May

6632.7° / 12°

Jun

5237.5° / 17°

Jul

4536.9° / 20.7°

Aug

4835.8° / 19.9°

Sep

6633.7° / 16°

Oct

7328.9° / 9°

Nov

7021.7° / 2.7°

Dec

4415.8° / -1.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Central — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	16.4°C	-1.2°C	18 mm	3.1	10 h 12	46	Strong coverage
February	19°C	0.7°C	17 mm	3	10 h 58	58	Strong coverage
March	23°C	3.8°C	11 mm	2.2	11 h 53	77	Strong coverage
April	27.6°C	7.4°C	5 mm	0.8	12 h 57	74	Strong coverage
May	32.7°C	12°C	5 mm	1.1	13 h 50	66	Strong coverage
June	37.5°C	17°C	7 mm	1.2	14 h 18	52	Strong coverage
July	36.9°C	20.7°C	33 mm	5.2	14 h 07	45	Strong coverage
August	35.8°C	19.9°C	47 mm	5.5	13 h 22	48	Strong coverage
September	33.7°C	16°C	25 mm	3.1	12 h 20	66	Strong coverage
October	28.9°C	9°C	19 mm	2.4	11 h 18	73	Strong coverage
November	21.7°C	2.7°C	14 mm	2.3	10 h 25	70	Strong coverage
December	15.8°C	-1.3°C	20 mm	3.2	10 h	44	Strong coverage

What has changed

Central runs +2.0°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

+1.6

Feb

+1.8

Mar

+2.9

Apr

+2.7

May

+2.2

Jun

+2.4

Jul

+1.0

Aug

+1.5

Sep

+1.6

Oct

+2.4

Nov

+2.2

Dec

+1.7

March daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.0°C.

Records at SAFFORD AG CTR, 1948–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.1°C19 Jan 1971	-12.8°C12 Jan 1964	36 mm18 Jan 1979	79 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 2011	78
February	31.7°C28 Feb 2026	-15.0°C3 Feb 2011	31 mm5 Feb 1988	67 mm1980 · driest 0 mm in 1999	78
March	38.3°C20 Mar 2026	-8.9°C3 Mar 2002	25 mm27 Mar 1951	57 mm1958 · driest 0 mm in 1959	78
April	37.8°C28 Apr 2000	-4.4°C5 Apr 2023	23 mm6 Apr 2001	36 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 2017	78
May	42.2°C30 May 2000	-2.2°C1 May 1967	20 mm16 May 1984	58 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 2020	77
June	45.6°C30 Jun 1994	3.9°C3 Jun 1955	28 mm30 Jun 1996	36 mm1996 · driest 0 mm in 1971	77
July	45.0°C29 Jul 1995	8.9°C1 Jul 1954	45 mm29 Jul 1966	93 mm1965 · driest 5 mm in 2023	75
August	45.0°C6 Aug 2025	8.3°C31 Aug 1956	57 mm31 Aug 1963	113 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1950	78
September	42.2°C9 Sep 2023	2.8°C30 Sep 1965	71 mm7 Sep 2016	107 mm1966 · driest 0 mm in 2020	77
October	38.3°C4 Oct 2024	-5.0°C30 Oct 1971	64 mm2 Oct 1983	112 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 1953	77
November	32.8°C5 Nov 2020	-10.0°C30 Nov 2010	39 mm12 Nov 1994	68 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 1955	75
December	27.2°C21 Dec 2025	-13.9°C24 Dec 1974	47 mm21 Dec 1991	120 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 1950	77

Typical days per month at SAFFORD AG CTR, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	19	<1
February	3	0	12	<1
March	13	2	4	<1
April	23	11	<1	<1
May	30	25	0	<1
June	30	29	0	<1
July	31	30	0	1
August	31	30	0	2
September	30	27	0	<1
October	26	15	<1	<1
November	9	<1	8	<1
December	0	0	19	<1

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

How often, not how much — every day in SAFFORD AG CTR’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	17%	10%	1%	7%	13.3–18.3°C
February	42%	10%	2%	6%	16.1–21.3°C
March	66%	9%	1%	5%	19.2–25.1°C
April	90%	4%	<1%	<1%	24.9–29.5°C
May	96%	3%	<1%	1%	29.9–34.0°C
June	96%	4%	<1%	1%	35.4–38.9°C
July	81%	19%	4%	18%	35.3–38.7°C
August	82%	18%	4%	12%	33.8–37.1°C
September	88%	12%	3%	7%	31.3–35.4°C
October	88%	9%	2%	7%	25.7–30.6°C
November	63%	7%	<1%	4%	18.6–24.0°C
December	19%	11%	2%	7%	13.7–18.5°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.

1949Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 70-year average. Warmest: 2025. Coolest: 1975.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5289156
NOAA station: USC00027390 · SAFFORD AG CTR
Station distance: 12 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 32.87°, 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 SAFFORD AG CTR is what differs

Safford→Thatcher→Swift Trail Junction→Pima→Cactus Flat→Solomon→

Or put two places side by side: Central vs Safford

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