April
April · October · May
87climate match
United States · 1991–2020
Best time to visit
McKittrick.
April leads for comfortable weather in McKittrick: typically 24.6°C by day, 9.2°C at night, with 10 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.
Best comfortApril
Typical high24.6°C
Typical low9.2°C
Rain in April10 mm
May
May · June · July
77climate match
November
November · March · February
91climate match
The weakest month is January, scoring 46 against April’s 87 — days reach only 14.5°C, 9° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to 3.2°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
4614.5° / 3.2°
Feb
6118° / 5°
Mar
7621.3° / 7.3°
Apr
8724.6° / 9.2°
May
7929.3° / 13.3°
Jun
6533.6° / 16.6°
Jul
5036.7° / 19.6°
Aug
5436° / 18.4°
Sep
6933.1° / 15.5°
Oct
8127.3° / 10.3°
Nov
6819.7° / 5.1°
Dec
4614.7° / 2.3°
| Month | Day | Night | Rain | Wet days | Daylight | Comfort | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.5°C | 3.2°C | 28 mm | 4.3 | 10 h 01 | 46 | Strong coverage |
| February | 18°C | 5°C | 27 mm | 4.4 | 10 h 51 | 61 | Strong coverage |
| March | 21.3°C | 7.3°C | 28 mm | 4.1 | 11 h 52 | 76 | Strong coverage |
| April | 24.6°C | 9.2°C | 10 mm | 1.7 | 13 h 02 | 87 | Strong coverage |
| May | 29.3°C | 13.3°C | 6 mm | 1 | 14 h 00 | 79 | Strong coverage |
| June | 33.6°C | 16.6°C | 1 mm | 0.2 | 14 h 31 | 65 | Strong coverage |
| July | 36.7°C | 19.6°C | 0 mm | 0.1 | 14 h 19 | 50 | Strong coverage |
| August | 36°C | 18.4°C | 0 mm | 0 | 13 h 29 | 54 | Strong coverage |
| September | 33.1°C | 15.5°C | 1 mm | 0.2 | 12 h 21 | 69 | Strong coverage |
| October | 27.3°C | 10.3°C | 6 mm | 1 | 11 h 14 | 81 | Strong coverage |
| November | 19.7°C | 5.1°C | 11 mm | 1.9 | 10 h 15 | 68 | Strong coverage |
| December | 14.7°C | 2.3°C | 26 mm | 3.8 | 9 h 47 | 46 | Strong coverage |
What has changed
McKittrick runs +1.1°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
+2.6
Feb
+1.4
Mar
+1.2
Apr
+1.4
May
+0.2
Jun
+1.1
Jul
+0.9
Aug
+1.1
Sep
+0.9
Oct
0.0
Nov
+0.5
Dec
+1.7
| Month | Record high | Record low | Wettest day | Wettest / driest month | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.7°C7 Jan 1948 | -12.8°C13 Jan 1963 | 43 mm25 Jan 1999 | 95 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1972 | 84 |
| February | 29.4°C6 Feb 2015 | -7.2°C15 Feb 1949 | 87 mm10 Feb 1978 | 150 mm1962 · driest 0 mm in 2020 | 84 |
| March | 33.9°C19 Mar 2026 | -3.3°C2 Mar 1971 | 39 mm19 Mar 1991 | 121 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 1972 | 83 |
| April | 37.8°C25 Apr 1946 | -1.1°C2 Apr 1945 | 34 mm26 Apr 2002 | 49 mm1941 · driest 0 mm in 2011 | 81 |
| May | 43.3°C23 May 2000 | 3.3°C1 May 1988 | 23 mm6 May 2005 | 59 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1973 | 82 |
| June | 45.6°C16 Jun 1961 | 4.4°C20 Jun 1944 | 12 mm13 Jun 1998 | 13 mm1963 · driest 0 mm in 1974 | 84 |
| July | 45.6°C16 Jul 1972 | 3.3°C8 Jul 2015 | 14 mm31 Jul 1965 | 18 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 1963 | 83 |
| August | 45.6°C3 Aug 1946 | 5.6°C23 Aug 2000 | 17 mm19 Aug 1983 | 19 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1974 | 81 |
| September | 45.0°C3 Sep 1955 | 2.8°C26 Sep 1948 | 32 mm5 Sep 1978 | 45 mm1976 · driest 0 mm in 1973 | 82 |
| October | 38.9°C5 Oct 1990 | -3.9°C30 Oct 1971 | 26 mm27 Oct 2004 | 37 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 2018 | 83 |
| November | 34.4°C5 Nov 2010 | -6.1°C30 Nov 1948 | 46 mm17 Nov 2025 | 73 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 2000 | 83 |
| December | 27.2°C8 Dec 2006 | -11.1°C23 Dec 1990 | 93 mm19 Dec 2010 | 151 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2017 | 83 |
| Month | Days 25°C+ | Days 30°C+ | Frost nights | Heavy rain (10 mm+) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | <1 | 0 | 7 | <1 |
| February | 1 | 0 | 3 | <1 |
| March | 7 | <1 | <1 | <1 |
| April | 14 | 5 | 0 | <1 |
| May | 25 | 15 | 0 | <1 |
| June | 29 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| July | 31 | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| August | 31 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| September | 29 | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| October | 22 | 9 | <1 | <1 |
| November | 4 | <1 | 3 | <1 |
| December | 0 | 0 | 11 | <1 |
| Month | Warm & dry days | Wet days | Washouts | Week with 3+ wet days | Daytime mean has ranged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6% | 14% | 2% | 13% | 10.7–16.3°C |
| February | 26% | 15% | 2% | 15% | 15.4–19.4°C |
| March | 55% | 13% | 2% | 11% | 18.8–23.2°C |
| April | 80% | 8% | 1% | 5% | 22.1–27.3°C |
| May | 95% | 3% | <1% | <1% | 26.6–32.0°C |
| June | 99% | <1% | <1% | 0% | 31.4–35.9°C |
| July | 100% | <1% | 0% | 0% | 34.9–38.9°C |
| August | 100% | <1% | 0% | 0% | 34.6–37.8°C |
| September | 98% | 2% | <1% | <1% | 31.0–34.9°C |
| October | 93% | 4% | <1% | 1% | 25.4–29.6°C |
| November | 46% | 8% | 1% | 6% | 17.3–21.7°C |
| December | 7% | 11% | 2% | 9% | 11.5–16.4°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.
The evidence behind this page
Nearby, measured,
and named.
- Place identity
- GeoNames 5371732
- NOAA station
- USC00041244 · BUTTONWILLOW
- Station distance
- 17.6 km from the place centre
- Climate period
- 1991–2020
- Minimum month coverage
- 27 usable years
- Daylight
- Calculated from latitude 35.31°, 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.