May
May · September · October
84climate match
United States · 1991–2020
Best time to visit
Prescott.
May leads for comfortable weather in Prescott: typically 24.6°C by day, 7.2°C at night, with 13 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.
Best comfortMay
Typical high24.6°C
Typical low7.2°C
Rain in May13 mm
June
June · August · September
70climate match
April
April · October · May
88climate match
The weakest month is December, scoring 21 against May’s 84 — days reach only 11°C, 13° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -4.7°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
2211.4° / -4.5°
Feb
2812.9° / -3.1°
Mar
4616.2° / -0.2°
Apr
6519.9° / 3°
May
8424.6° / 7.2°
Jun
7330.5° / 12°
Jul
6332° / 16.1°
Aug
6830.7° / 15.4°
Sep
7828° / 11.2°
Oct
7722.8° / 4.6°
Nov
4616.5° / -1.2°
Dec
2111° / -4.7°
| Month | Day | Night | Rain | Wet days | Daylight | Comfort | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11.4°C | -4.5°C | 39 mm | 4.4 | 10 h 04 | 22 | Strong coverage |
| February | 12.9°C | -3.1°C | 45 mm | 4.7 | 10 h 53 | 28 | Strong coverage |
| March | 16.2°C | -0.2°C | 37 mm | 4 | 11 h 52 | 46 | Strong coverage |
| April | 19.9°C | 3°C | 14 mm | 2.5 | 13 h 00 | 65 | Strong coverage |
| May | 24.6°C | 7.2°C | 13 mm | 2.3 | 13 h 57 | 84 | Strong coverage |
| June | 30.5°C | 12°C | 6 mm | 1.1 | 14 h 27 | 73 | Strong coverage |
| July | 32°C | 16.1°C | 68 mm | 7.9 | 14 h 15 | 63 | Strong coverage |
| August | 30.7°C | 15.4°C | 71 mm | 8 | 13 h 27 | 68 | Strong coverage |
| September | 28°C | 11.2°C | 41 mm | 4.7 | 12 h 21 | 78 | Strong coverage |
| October | 22.8°C | 4.6°C | 23 mm | 2.9 | 11 h 15 | 77 | Strong coverage |
| November | 16.5°C | -1.2°C | 22 mm | 2.7 | 10 h 19 | 46 | Strong coverage |
| December | 11°C | -4.7°C | 37 mm | 4.1 | 9 h 51 | 21 | Strong coverage |
What has changed
Prescott runs +1.5°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
+1.1
Feb
+0.9
Mar
+1.8
Apr
+2.1
May
+1.1
Jun
+2.4
Jul
+1.1
Aug
+1.6
Sep
+1.5
Oct
+1.5
Nov
+1.6
Dec
+1.4
| Month | Record high | Record low | Wettest day | Wettest / driest month | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22.8°C5 Jan 1927 | -29.4°C22 Jan 1937 | 75 mm22 Jan 2010 | 198 mm1916 · driest 0 mm in 1972 | 126 |
| February | 25.0°C27 Feb 1986 | -24.4°C6 Feb 1899 | 97 mm7 Feb 1937 | 240 mm1927 · driest 0 mm in 1924 | 126 |
| March | 33.3°C20 Mar 2026 | -16.7°C1 Mar 1913 | 82 mm3 Mar 1938 | 181 mm1918 · driest 0 mm in 1997 | 125 |
| April | 31.7°C30 Apr 2020 | -11.7°C26 Apr 1899 | 86 mm17 Apr 1917 | 176 mm1926 · driest 0 mm in 2018 | 125 |
| May | 36.1°C29 May 1910 | -15.0°C3 May 1899 | 45 mm9 May 2019 | 87 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 2022 | 126 |
| June | 40.6°C16 Jun 2021 | -3.9°C2 Jun 1899 | 34 mm26 Jun 1954 | 63 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 2014 | 127 |
| July | 40.6°C17 Jul 1925 | 1.1°C3 Jul 1912 | 79 mm19 Jul 2018 | 224 mm1908 · driest 0 mm in 1993 | 128 |
| August | 39.4°C1 Aug 2020 | 0.0°C23 Aug 1968 | 80 mm22 Aug 1960 | 267 mm1971 · driest 3 mm in 2002 | 127 |
| September | 36.7°C1 Sep 1950 | -3.3°C16 Sep 1903 | 78 mm24 Sep 1983 | 255 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1898 | 126 |
| October | 34.4°C2 Oct 2024 | -10.6°C31 Oct 1935 | 61 mm6 Oct 1916 | 199 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 2020 | 125 |
| November | 28.3°C16 Nov 1933 | -18.3°C24 Nov 1931 | 109 mm27 Nov 1919 | 221 mm1905 · driest 0 mm in 1989 | 126 |
| December | 25.6°C2 Dec 1926 | -22.8°C13 Dec 1931 | 80 mm30 Dec 1951 | 177 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 1958 | 127 |
| Month | Days 25°C+ | Days 30°C+ | Frost nights | Heavy rain (10 mm+) | Snow days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 1 |
| February | 0 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 1 |
| March | <1 | 0 | 16 | 1 | <1 |
| April | 5 | <1 | 7 | <1 | <1 |
| May | 17 | 4 | <1 | <1 | 0 |
| June | 28 | 19 | 0 | <1 | 0 |
| July | 30 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| August | 30 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| September | 25 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| October | 12 | 1 | 4 | <1 | 0 |
| November | <1 | 0 | 17 | <1 | <1 |
| December | 0 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 1 |
| Month | Warm & dry days | Wet days | Washouts | Week with 3+ wet days | Daytime mean has ranged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1% | 15% | 4% | 14% | 7.8–13.5°C |
| February | 6% | 16% | 5% | 16% | 9.6–15.6°C |
| March | 22% | 15% | 4% | 13% | 12.1–18.7°C |
| April | 53% | 10% | 2% | 7% | 16.9–22.1°C |
| May | 81% | 7% | 1% | 4% | 21.7–27.0°C |
| June | 94% | 5% | 1% | 4% | 27.9–32.5°C |
| July | 74% | 27% | 8% | 35% | 29.9–33.8°C |
| August | 72% | 28% | 9% | 33% | 28.7–32.2°C |
| September | 84% | 15% | 5% | 13% | 25.7–30.1°C |
| October | 71% | 9% | 3% | 8% | 19.5–25.0°C |
| November | 26% | 10% | 3% | 8% | 13.2–19.3°C |
| December | 2% | 13% | 4% | 13% | 8.1–13.9°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.
The evidence behind this page
Nearby, measured,
and named.
- Place identity
- GeoNames 5309842
- NOAA station
- USC00026796 · PRESCOTT
- Station distance
- 4.8 km from the place centre
- Climate period
- 1991–2020
- Minimum month coverage
- 29 usable years
- Daylight
- Calculated from latitude 34.54°, 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.