United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Furnace Creek.

February leads for comfortable weather in Furnace Creek: typically 23.3°C by day, 8°C at night, with 13 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortFebruary

Typical high23.3°C

Typical low8°C

Rain in February13 mm

Comfort

February

February · November · March

85climate match

Beach

April

April · March · October

77climate match

Outdoors

January

January · February · December

90climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 5 against February’s 85 — days average 47.5°C, 24° 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

6719.7° / 4.5°

Feb

8523.3° / 8°

Mar

8228.3° / 12.7°

Apr

6732.9° / 17.1°

May

4038.2° / 22.6°

Jun

1144° / 27.8°

Jul

547.5° / 31.6°

Aug

546.7° / 30.4°

Sep

2342.1° / 24.8°

Oct

6334.2° / 16.7°

Nov

8525.3° / 8.9°

Dec

6318.8° / 3.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Furnace Creek — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	19.7°C	4.5°C	10 mm	1.4	9 h 55	67	Strong coverage
February	23.3°C	8°C	13 mm	2	10 h 48	85	Strong coverage
March	28.3°C	12.7°C	6 mm	1.1	11 h 51	82	Strong coverage
April	32.9°C	17.1°C	3 mm	0.7	13 h 04	67	Strong coverage
May	38.2°C	22.6°C	1 mm	0.4	14 h 05	40	Strong coverage
June	44°C	27.8°C	1 mm	0.3	14 h 38	11	Strong coverage
July	47.5°C	31.6°C	3 mm	0.6	14 h 25	5	Strong coverage
August	46.7°C	30.4°C	3 mm	0.6	13 h 33	5	Strong coverage
September	42.1°C	24.8°C	5 mm	0.6	12 h 22	23	Strong coverage
October	34.2°C	16.7°C	3 mm	0.7	11 h 12	63	Strong coverage
November	25.3°C	8.9°C	3 mm	0.5	10 h 11	85	Strong coverage
December	18.8°C	3.9°C	6 mm	1.1	9 h 41	63	Strong coverage

What has changed

Furnace Creek 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

+1.4

Feb

+0.9

Mar

+1.2

Apr

+2.1

May

+0.9

Jun

+2.3

Jul

+1.6

Aug

+1.7

Sep

+1.6

Oct

+0.9

Nov

+0.7

Dec

+1.1

February daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.5°C.

Records at DEATH VALLEY NP, 1961–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	32.2°C16 Jan 2021	-6.7°C13 Jan 1963	25 mm4 Jan 2005	66 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 1997	65
February	36.1°C28 Feb 1986	-6.7°C19 Feb 1990	25 mm24 Feb 1998	60 mm1976 · driest 0 mm in 2013	65
March	41.7°C21 Mar 2026	-3.3°C4 Mar 1989	25 mm1 Mar 1978	42 mm1978 · driest 0 mm in 1967	65
April	45.0°C23 Apr 2012	3.9°C9 Apr 1999	37 mm15 Apr 1988	43 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 2008	65
May	50.0°C30 May 2000	7.8°C11 May 2000	15 mm9 May 1977	24 mm1977 · driest 0 mm in 1981	66
June	53.3°C17 Jun 2021	12.2°C6 Jun 1993	15 mm19 Jun 2009	15 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 1971	66
July	54.4°C9 Jul 2021	19.4°C4 Jul 1992	16 mm26 Jul 2021	37 mm2021 · driest 0 mm in 1970	66
August	54.4°C16 Aug 2020	18.3°C28 Aug 1990	56 mm20 Aug 2023	58 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1996	65
September	51.7°C6 Sep 2022	12.8°C27 Sep 1986	28 mm26 Sep 1997	38 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 2001	65
October	45.6°C1 Oct 2024	2.8°C22 Oct 1996	14 mm4 Oct 1972	33 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1969	65
November	36.7°C1 Nov 1988	-3.3°C15 Nov 1993	20 mm29 Nov 1981	45 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 1995	65
December	31.1°C17 Dec 1998	-5.6°C22 Dec 1990	32 mm29 Dec 2004	33 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 2017	65

Typical days per month at DEATH VALLEY NP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	2	0	3	<1
February	10	2	<1	<1
March	24	12	0	<1
April	28	22	0	<1
May	31	29	0	0
June	30	30	0	<1
July	31	31	0	0
August	31	31	0	0
September	30	30	0	<1
October	30	26	0	<1
November	16	5	<1	<1
December	1	<1	5	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was November (scoring 88); on 2011–2025 it is February (89). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in DEATH VALLEY NP’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	45%	4%	<1%	1%	17.2–21.3°C
February	79%	6%	2%	3%	20.8–25.5°C
March	94%	4%	<1%	<1%	25.0–30.9°C
April	98%	2%	<1%	1%	29.5–35.0°C
May	99%	1%	0%	<1%	34.9–40.3°C
June	99%	1%	<1%	0%	40.8–45.9°C
July	98%	2%	<1%	0%	45.1–49.0°C
August	98%	2%	<1%	<1%	44.2–47.7°C
September	98%	3%	<1%	<1%	39.2–43.3°C
October	98%	2%	<1%	<1%	31.9–36.5°C
November	87%	3%	<1%	1%	22.5–26.9°C
December	37%	3%	<1%	<1%	16.4–20.4°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.

1962Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 64-year average. Warmest: 2022. Coolest: 1998.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5351307
NOAA station: USC00042319 · DEATH VALLEY NP
Station distance: 2.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 36.45°, 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 DEATH VALLEY NP is what differs

Death Valley→Ashford Mill (historical)→Ashford Junction→Badwater→Beatty Junction→Indian Village→

Or put two places side by side: Furnace Creek vs Death Valley

Best time to visitFurnace Creek.

February

April

January

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Furnace Creek runs +1.4°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Furnace Creek.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Furnace Creek runs +1.4°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.