United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Plains.

September leads for comfortable weather in Plains: typically 29.8°C by day, 13.7°C at night, with 42 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high29.8°C

Typical low13.7°C

Rain in September42 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · October

76climate match

Beach

September

September · August · July

75climate match

Outdoors

April

April · October · May

84climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 8 against September’s 76 — days reach only 8.1°C, 16° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -6.7°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

88.1° / -6.7°

Feb

169.8° / -5.4°

Mar

4115.4° / -0.9°

Apr

6620.6° / 3.7°

May

7426.6° / 10.1°

Jun

6032° / 16°

Jul

4635° / 18.9°

Aug

5333.9° / 18.7°

Sep

7629.8° / 13.7°

Oct

7322.4° / 5.4°

Nov

4014.8° / -1.5°

Dec

128.8° / -5.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Plains — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	8.1°C	-6.7°C	21 mm	2.3	9 h 51	8	Strong coverage
February	9.8°C	-5.4°C	19 mm	2.5	10 h 45	16	Strong coverage
March	15.4°C	-0.9°C	44 mm	3.7	11 h 51	41	Strong coverage
April	20.6°C	3.7°C	45 mm	4.7	13 h 06	66	Strong coverage
May	26.6°C	10.1°C	72 mm	6.2	14 h 09	74	Strong coverage
June	32°C	16°C	93 mm	7.3	14 h 43	60	Strong coverage
July	35°C	18.9°C	88 mm	6.6	14 h 29	46	Strong coverage
August	33.9°C	18.7°C	71 mm	6.3	13 h 35	53	Strong coverage
September	29.8°C	13.7°C	42 mm	4.4	12 h 22	76	Strong coverage
October	22.4°C	5.4°C	55 mm	4.3	11 h 10	73	Strong coverage
November	14.8°C	-1.5°C	16 mm	2.5	10 h 07	40	Strong coverage
December	8.8°C	-5.9°C	26 mm	2.6	9 h 37	12	Strong coverage

What has changed

Plains runs -0.2°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

+0.2

Feb

-2.6

Mar

+0.1

Apr

-1.5

May

-0.7

Jun

+1.1

Jul

-0.1

Aug

-0.3

Sep

+1.4

Oct

-1.2

Nov

+0.5

Dec

+0.1

September daytime highs, 2012–2022. Last recorded: 32.4°C.

Records at MEADE, 1895–2023
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	28.3°C20 Jan 1986	-28.9°C4 Jan 1959	36 mm16 Jan 2017	70 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 1899	80
February	31.7°C20 Feb 1981	-30.6°C12 Feb 1899	86 mm9 Feb 2001	126 mm2001 · driest 0 mm in 1970	80
March	34.4°C20 Mar 2017	-21.1°C3 Mar 1960	62 mm10 Mar 1973	313 mm1973 · driest 0 mm in 1903	80
April	38.3°C23 Apr 1989	-9.4°C3 Apr 1975	76 mm5 Apr 1900	168 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 1899	80
May	41.1°C19 May 1996	-2.8°C3 May 1954	197 mm15 May 2003	300 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 2004	81
June	45.6°C14 Jun 1896	5.0°C19 Jun 2000	71 mm19 Jun 1993	238 mm1962 · driest 0 mm in 1952	81
July	43.3°C28 Jul 1986	8.3°C14 Jul 1990	114 mm24 Jul 1962	274 mm1950 · driest 0 mm in 2010	82
August	43.3°C17 Aug 1952	7.2°C20 Aug 1950	129 mm20 Aug 1958	175 mm1958 · driest 2 mm in 1983	81
September	42.2°C2 Sep 1898	-1.1°C30 Sep 1985	91 mm12 Sep 1973	194 mm1973 · driest 0 mm in 1956	80
October	38.3°C18 Oct 2016	-13.3°C31 Oct 2019	192 mm2 Oct 1998	249 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 2001	81
November	32.8°C1 Nov 2016	-18.3°C16 Nov 1902	60 mm17 Nov 1971	104 mm1971 · driest 0 mm in 1954	80
December	31.1°C24 Dec 1955	-27.2°C22 Dec 1989	112 mm24 Dec 2002	135 mm2002 · driest 0 mm in 1948	80

Typical days per month at MEADE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	<1	0	29	<1	2
February	<1	0	25	<1	2
March	3	<1	17	2	1
April	9	3	5	1	<1
May	20	10	<1	3	0
June	28	21	0	3	0
July	30	28	0	3	0
August	30	26	0	2	0
September	25	17	<1	2	0
October	12	4	4	2	<1
November	2	<1	19	<1	<1
December	<1	0	29	<1	2

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was October (scoring 83); on 2011–2025 it is May (78). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in MEADE’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	6%	8%	2%	3%	4.7–12.5°C
February	14%	9%	2%	4%	5.6–16.0°C
March	33%	12%	5%	8%	11.8–19.3°C
April	58%	14%	5%	10%	18.6–24.6°C
May	71%	22%	9%	24%	23.6–30.1°C
June	77%	22%	9%	21%	29.1–35.4°C
July	79%	21%	9%	19%	32.7–37.5°C
August	80%	20%	8%	16%	31.6–36.8°C
September	81%	16%	6%	11%	27.4–33.1°C
October	67%	12%	5%	9%	20.4–26.9°C
November	26%	9%	2%	4%	11.4–18.5°C
December	6%	8%	2%	5%	5.9–12.7°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.

1896Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 67-year average. Warmest: 1896. Coolest: 1899.2022

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5446185
NOAA station: USC00145171 · MEADE
Station distance: 22.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 37.26°, 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 MEADE is what differs

Meade→Minneola→Fowler→Collano→Hobart→Missler→

Or put two places side by side: Plains vs Meade

Best time to visitPlains.

September

September

April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Plains runs -0.2°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Plains.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Plains runs -0.2°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.