United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Cork.

March leads for comfortable weather in Cork: typically 23.2°C by day, 2.7°C at night, with 15 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMarch

Typical high23.2°C

Typical low2.7°C

Rain in March15 mm

Comfort

March

March · April · October

75climate match

Beach

August

August · September · July

72climate match

Outdoors

November

November · February · March

83climate match

The weakest month is December, scoring 40 against March’s 75 — nights drop to -2.2°C, and days reach only 15.3°C, 9° 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

4216° / -2.1°

Feb

5618.9° / 0.1°

Mar

7523.2° / 2.7°

Apr

7327.5° / 6.4°

May

6732° / 11.5°

Jun

5337.3° / 16.9°

Jul

4237.3° / 21.3°

Aug

4636.1° / 20.5°

Sep

6533.8° / 16.3°

Oct

7328.6° / 8.5°

Nov

6621° / 1.7°

Dec

4015.3° / -2.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Cork — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	16°C	-2.1°C	25 mm	3.9	10 h 12	42	Strong coverage
February	18.9°C	0.1°C	23 mm	3.3	10 h 57	56	Strong coverage
March	23.2°C	2.7°C	15 mm	2.2	11 h 53	75	Strong coverage
April	27.5°C	6.4°C	7 mm	1.4	12 h 57	73	Strong coverage
May	32°C	11.5°C	7 mm	1.1	13 h 50	67	Strong coverage
June	37.3°C	16.9°C	4 mm	0.9	14 h 19	53	Strong coverage
July	37.3°C	21.3°C	42 mm	5.3	14 h 08	42	Strong coverage
August	36.1°C	20.5°C	48 mm	5.8	13 h 22	46	Strong coverage
September	33.8°C	16.3°C	26 mm	3.2	12 h 20	65	Strong coverage
October	28.6°C	8.5°C	17 mm	2.4	11 h 18	73	Strong coverage
November	21°C	1.7°C	14 mm	2.4	10 h 25	66	Strong coverage
December	15.3°C	-2.2°C	25 mm	3.6	9 h 59	40	Strong coverage

What has changed

Cork runs +1.4°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

+0.1

Feb

+1.0

Mar

+2.0

Apr

+1.9

May

+0.7

Jun

+2.3

Jul

+1.1

Aug

+2.2

Sep

+1.1

Oct

+2.2

Nov

+1.5

Dec

+0.5

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

Records at FT THOMAS 2 SW, 1966–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	27.2°C18 Jan 1971	-16.1°C17 Jan 1987	34 mm10 Jan 1993	134 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1986	56
February	31.7°C28 Feb 2026	-16.1°C3 Feb 1994	37 mm1 Feb 1996	84 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1972	56
March	39.4°C21 Mar 2026	-11.7°C3 Mar 2002	34 mm26 Mar 1994	68 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1997	55
April	38.3°C12 Apr 2025	-5.0°C6 Apr 1973	33 mm6 Apr 2001	44 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 1992	55
May	41.7°C31 May 2002	-1.7°C1 May 1967	26 mm4 May 1982	71 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1985	54
June	45.6°C21 Jun 2016	4.4°C9 Jun 1998	22 mm21 Jun 1972	46 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 1969	56
July	45.6°C10 Jul 2025	5.6°C11 Jul 1969	54 mm18 Jul 1966	94 mm2008 · driest 3 mm in 1989	55
August	46.7°C7 Aug 2025	10.0°C23 Aug 1979	95 mm12 Aug 2011	136 mm2011 · driest 2 mm in 1981	54
September	41.7°C4 Sep 2019	3.9°C22 Sep 1978	45 mm22 Sep 2015	84 mm1999 · driest 0 mm in 1968	54
October	37.8°C3 Oct 2025	-7.2°C31 Oct 2019	71 mm1 Oct 1983	112 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1973	54
November	33.9°C5 Nov 1988	-13.9°C27 Nov 1992	38 mm11 Nov 1994	60 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 1992	51
December	26.7°C7 Dec 1970	-13.3°C10 Dec 1978	38 mm21 Dec 1990	80 mm1984 · driest 0 mm in 2005	53

Typical days per month at FT THOMAS 2 SW, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	<1	0	22	<1
February	3	0	15	<1
March	12	2	7	<1
April	22	10	2	<1
May	28	22	0	<1
June	28	28	0	<1
July	29	28	0	2
August	29	28	0	2
September	28	25	0	<1
October	24	13	<1	<1
November	6	<1	11	<1
December	0	0	22	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was October (scoring 76); on 2011–2025 it is March (77). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in FT THOMAS 2 SW’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	16%	12%	2%	9%	14.2–18.2°C
February	46%	11%	2%	10%	16.6–21.9°C
March	71%	9%	2%	6%	20.4–26.1°C
April	92%	5%	<1%	2%	25.4–29.5°C
May	96%	4%	<1%	1%	30.1–34.3°C
June	97%	4%	<1%	2%	35.6–39.5°C
July	83%	17%	4%	15%	35.3–39.1°C
August	84%	16%	4%	10%	34.5–37.9°C
September	89%	11%	3%	5%	32.0–35.3°C
October	90%	8%	2%	6%	25.5–30.2°C
November	61%	8%	2%	4%	18.4–23.2°C
December	16%	11%	2%	8%	13.5–18.1°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.

1967Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 41-year average. Warmest: 1989. Coolest: 1992.2021

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5290853
NOAA station: USC00023150 · FT THOMAS 2 SW
Station distance: 8.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 32.96°, 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 FT THOMAS 2 SW is what differs

Bylas→Fort Thomas→Bryce→Calva→Eden→Emery→

Or put two places side by side: Cork vs Bylas

Best time to visitCork.