United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Payson.

October leads for comfortable weather in Payson: typically 24.2°C by day, 5.1°C at night, with 36 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high24.2°C

Typical low5.1°C

Rain in October36 mm

Comfort

October

October · May · September

81climate match

Beach

September

September · June · August

69climate match

Outdoors

April

April · October · May

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 26 against October’s 81 — days reach only 13.1°C, 11° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -3.6°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

2613.1° / -3.6°

Feb

3214.4° / -2.4°

Mar

5017.9° / -0.2°

Apr

7021.7° / 2.4°

May

7726.4° / 6.3°

Jun

6632.1° / 10.8°

Jul

6033.2° / 15.5°

Aug

6132.2° / 15.4°

Sep

7329.7° / 11.3°

Oct

8124.2° / 5.1°

Nov

5017.6° / -0.6°

Dec

2612.6° / -3.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Payson — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	13.1°C	-3.6°C	54 mm	4.6	10 h 06	26	Strong coverage
February	14.4°C	-2.4°C	61 mm	5.1	10 h 54	32	Strong coverage
March	17.9°C	-0.2°C	47 mm	4.2	11 h 52	50	Strong coverage
April	21.7°C	2.4°C	21 mm	2.6	13 h	70	Strong coverage
May	26.4°C	6.3°C	14 mm	2.2	13 h 55	77	Strong coverage
June	32.1°C	10.8°C	6 mm	1.1	14 h 25	66	Strong coverage
July	33.2°C	15.5°C	71 mm	7.5	14 h 14	60	Strong coverage
August	32.2°C	15.4°C	73 mm	9.2	13 h 26	61	Strong coverage
September	29.7°C	11.3°C	38 mm	4.3	12 h 21	73	Strong coverage
October	24.2°C	5.1°C	36 mm	3.6	11 h 16	81	Strong coverage
November	17.6°C	-0.6°C	38 mm	3.3	10 h 20	50	Strong coverage
December	12.6°C	-3.5°C	50 mm	4.6	9 h 53	26	Strong coverage

What has changed

Payson runs +0.6°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

+0.7

Feb

+0.3

Mar

+1.4

Apr

+0.9

May

-0.4

Jun

+0.2

Jul

-0.8

Aug

+0.3

Sep

+0.9

Oct

+1.0

Nov

+1.3

Dec

+1.1

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.1°C.

Records at PAYSON, 1948–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	25.0°C18 Jan 1971	-22.2°C6 Jan 1971	65 mm13 Jan 1997	243 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 2002	75
February	26.7°C28 Feb 1986	-17.2°C28 Feb 1962	62 mm15 Feb 1980	230 mm1980 · driest 0 mm in 1972	77
March	32.2°C19 Mar 2026	-16.1°C3 Mar 1966	73 mm1 Mar 1991	200 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 2016	77
April	32.8°C26 Apr 1996	-9.4°C4 Apr 1955	54 mm5 Apr 1999	126 mm1999 · driest 0 mm in 2023	77
May	37.2°C12 May 1996	-5.6°C6 May 1975	32 mm16 May 2015	108 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1983	77
June	41.1°C26 Jun 1990	-0.6°C7 Jun 1993	55 mm13 Jun 1955	73 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 2004	77
July	41.7°C28 Jul 1995	3.9°C5 Jul 1956	79 mm23 Jul 2021	177 mm2021 · driest 3 mm in 2023	77
August	40.0°C1 Aug 1993	2.8°C31 Aug 1956	88 mm22 Aug 1963	266 mm1963 · driest 12 mm in 1950	77
September	39.4°C2 Sep 1948	0.6°C21 Sep 1955	136 mm5 Sep 1970	171 mm1970 · driest 0 mm in 1957	76
October	34.4°C2 Oct 1980	-8.9°C30 Oct 1971	99 mm19 Oct 1972	262 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 1952	77
November	28.3°C6 Nov 1999	-14.4°C30 Nov 1975	81 mm11 Nov 1978	187 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 2021	77
December	25.0°C9 Dec 1950	-22.8°C23 Dec 1990	98 mm29 Dec 2004	230 mm1967 · driest 0 mm in 1958	76

Typical days per month at PAYSON, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	26	2	2
February	0	0	21	2	1
March	1	0	17	2	<1
April	7	<1	8	<1	<1
May	20	7	<1	<1	0
June	28	22	0	<1	0
July	29	26	0	2	0
August	30	24	0	2	0
September	27	15	0	1	0
October	15	3	3	1	0
November	2	0	18	1	<1
December	0	0	26	2	1

How often, not how much — every day in PAYSON’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	4%	17%	6%	16%	10.1–15.3°C
February	14%	16%	6%	20%	11.7–17.6°C
March	35%	16%	6%	17%	14.0–20.1°C
April	68%	10%	2%	6%	19.0–23.8°C
May	88%	6%	1%	4%	23.6–28.3°C
June	95%	5%	<1%	3%	30.3–34.1°C
July	75%	26%	8%	34%	31.6–35.2°C
August	72%	28%	8%	32%	30.2–33.6°C
September	85%	16%	5%	13%	27.3–31.2°C
October	78%	12%	4%	9%	21.3–26.9°C
November	34%	11%	5%	9%	14.6–20.1°C
December	5%	15%	6%	15%	10.3–15.1°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.

1949Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 72-year average. Warmest: 2017. Coolest: 1975.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5308305
NOAA station: USW00093139 · PAYSON
Station distance: 1.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.23°, 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 PAYSON is what differs

Star Valley→Sun Valley→Mesa del Caballo→Gisela→Oxbow Estates→East Verde Estates→

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