United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Oberlin.

September leads for comfortable weather in Oberlin: typically 27.1°C by day, 10.3°C at night, with 44 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember
Typical high27.1°C
Typical low10.3°C
Rain in September44 mm
Comfort

September

September · May · June

79climate match
Beach

August

August · June · July

67climate match
Outdoors

October

October · April · September

84climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 79days reach only 5.4°C, 19° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -9.7°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
55.4° / -9.7°
Feb
57.2° / -8.4°
Mar
2913.2° / -4°
Apr
5218.3° / 1.6°
May
7423.3° / 7.6°
Jun
6929.8° / 14°
Jul
5632.8° / 17.2°
Aug
6431.3° / 15.9°
Sep
7927.1° / 10.3°
Oct
6219.8° / 2.5°
Nov
2612.2° / -4.2°
Dec
55.9° / -9°
Monthly climate evidence for Oberlin — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
MonthDayNightRainWet daysDaylightComfortCoverage
January5.4°C-9.7°C11 mm29 h 385Strong coverage
February7.2°C-8.4°C17 mm2.910 h 385Strong coverage
March13.2°C-4°C27 mm3.911 h 4929Strong coverage
April18.3°C1.6°C54 mm5.613 h 1252Strong coverage
May23.3°C7.6°C81 mm7.814 h 2174Strong coverage
June29.8°C14°C81 mm7.614 h 5869Strong coverage
July32.8°C17.2°C87 mm7.114 h 4456Strong coverage
August31.3°C15.9°C80 mm713 h 4464Strong coverage
September27.1°C10.3°C44 mm4.612 h 2479Strong coverage
October19.8°C2.5°C40 mm4.311 h 0562Strong coverage
November12.2°C-4.2°C20 mm2.89 h 5526Strong coverage
December5.9°C-9°C17 mm2.79 h 225Strong coverage

What has changed

Oberlin 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
-2.3
Mar
+1.2
Apr
-1.2
May
-1.7
Jun
+0.1
Jul
-0.9
Aug
-1.4
Sep
0.0
Oct
-1.8
Nov
+1.1
Dec
-0.5
September daytime highs, 20112020. Last recorded: 26.8°C.
Records at OBERLIN, 1913–2021
MonthRecord highRecord lowWettest dayWettest / driest monthYears
January25.6°C28 Jan 2015-35.6°C11 Jan 191836 mm20 Jan 199049 mm1944 · driest 0 mm in 1961107
February29.4°C17 Feb 1970-33.3°C8 Feb 193348 mm11 Feb 199381 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1916108
March33.9°C30 Mar 1943-31.7°C11 Mar 194844 mm18 Mar 1984142 mm1987 · driest 0 mm in 2009107
April36.1°C23 Apr 1989-17.8°C2 Apr 193666 mm17 Apr 2016162 mm2016 · driest 3 mm in 1928107
May39.4°C30 May 2000-5.6°C1 May 196690 mm24 May 2008215 mm1923 · driest 3 mm in 1966107
June43.9°C27 Jun 20121.1°C2 Jun 1917120 mm13 Jun 1965245 mm1965 · driest 4 mm in 1918107
July45.6°C24 Jul 19364.4°C31 Jul 1925131 mm16 Jul 1979245 mm1944 · driest 6 mm in 1934108
August43.3°C11 Aug 19361.7°C24 Aug 192878 mm4 Aug 1920182 mm1993 · driest 5 mm in 1919109
September41.7°C2 Sep 1939-7.2°C25 Sep 192670 mm15 Sep 1970200 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 1974107
October37.2°C5 Oct 1947-16.7°C27 Oct 202078 mm29 Oct 2000160 mm1946 · driest 0 mm in 1939107
November31.1°C6 Nov 1980-28.3°C14 Nov 194082 mm4 Nov 192287 mm1975 · driest 0 mm in 1914108
December28.3°C23 Dec 1964-35.0°C22 Dec 198939 mm5 Dec 1913139 mm1913 · driest 0 mm in 2000107
Typical days per month at OBERLIN, 1991–2020
MonthDays 25°C+Days 30°C+Frost nightsHeavy rain (10 mm+)Snow days
January0030<12
February<1027<13
March2<125<12
April62122<1
May13523<1
June2515030
July2923030
August2820020
September2011<110
October82101<1
November2025<11
December0030<12

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was May (scoring 78); on 2011–2025 it is September (78). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in OBERLIN’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
MonthWarm & dry daysWet daysWashoutsWeek with 3+ wet daysDaytime mean has ranged
January2%7%<1%2%0.9–9.6°C
February8%11%1%7%2.4–12.4°C
March23%14%3%10%8.8–17.2°C
April45%19%6%17%16.1–21.9°C
May63%24%9%26%21.4–26.9°C
June74%25%9%26%27.6–33.2°C
July79%21%8%18%31.0–36.5°C
August80%21%7%17%29.7–35.0°C
September79%15%5%11%25.3–30.8°C
October59%12%4%8%17.5–24.4°C
November17%9%2%4%9.7–15.7°C
December3%8%1%4%2.6–9.6°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.

1914Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 99-year average. Warmest: 1954. Coolest: 1993.2019

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity
GeoNames 5446098
NOAA station
USC00145906 · OBERLIN
Station distance
1.1 km from the place centre
Climate period
1991–2020
Minimum month coverage
28 usable years
Daylight
Calculated from latitude 39.82°, 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 OBERLIN is what differs

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