May
May · September · June
82climate match
United States · 1991–2020
Best time to visit
Apache.
May leads for comfortable weather in Apache: typically 23.2°C by day, 6.3°C at night, with 18 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.
Best comfortMay
Typical high23.2°C
Typical low6.3°C
Rain in May18 mm
June
June · July · August
65climate match
October
October · May · April
85climate match
The weakest month is December, scoring 16 against May’s 82 — days reach only 9.4°C, 15° 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
179.5° / -4.5°
Feb
2411.1° / -3.6°
Mar
4114.8° / -1°
Apr
5818.4° / 2.1°
May
8223.2° / 6.3°
Jun
7628° / 10.7°
Jul
7127.5° / 12.2°
Aug
7226.3° / 11.7°
Sep
8123.9° / 8.4°
Oct
6219.1° / 3.5°
Nov
3613.5° / -1.3°
Dec
169.4° / -4.7°
| Month | Day | Night | Rain | Wet days | Daylight | Comfort | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9.5°C | -4.5°C | 17 mm | 2.7 | 10 h 10 | 17 | Strong coverage |
| February | 11.1°C | -3.6°C | 16 mm | 2.6 | 10 h 56 | 24 | Strong coverage |
| March | 14.8°C | -1°C | 16 mm | 2.8 | 11 h 53 | 41 | Strong coverage |
| April | 18.4°C | 2.1°C | 14 mm | 2.2 | 12 h 58 | 58 | Strong coverage |
| May | 23.2°C | 6.3°C | 18 mm | 2.6 | 13 h 52 | 82 | Strong coverage |
| June | 28°C | 10.7°C | 40 mm | 5.3 | 14 h 21 | 76 | Strong coverage |
| July | 27.5°C | 12.2°C | 78 mm | 9.5 | 14 h 09 | 71 | Good coverage |
| August | 26.3°C | 11.7°C | 87 mm | 10.5 | 13 h 23 | 72 | Strong coverage |
| September | 23.9°C | 8.4°C | 55 mm | 6.9 | 12 h 20 | 81 | Strong coverage |
| October | 19.1°C | 3.5°C | 32 mm | 4 | 11 h 18 | 62 | Strong coverage |
| November | 13.5°C | -1.3°C | 15 mm | 2.3 | 10 h 23 | 36 | Strong coverage |
| December | 9.4°C | -4.7°C | 25 mm | 3.3 | 9 h 57 | 16 | Strong coverage |
What has changed
Apache runs -0.1°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
-1.2
Feb
-0.1
Mar
+0.8
Apr
0.0
May
-0.5
Jun
+0.7
Jul
+0.4
Aug
+0.5
Sep
+0.4
Oct
-0.1
Nov
-0.4
Dec
-1.4
| Month | Record high | Record low | Wettest day | Wettest / driest month | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.3°C23 Jan 1944 | -32.2°C6 Jan 1971 | 32 mm23 Jan 2010 | 87 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 2017 | 76 |
| February | 23.3°C25 Feb 1986 | -32.8°C3 Feb 2011 | 39 mm9 Feb 1959 | 88 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 2017 | 74 |
| March | 25.0°C2 Mar 2009 | -22.2°C30 Mar 1975 | 38 mm17 Mar 1955 | 116 mm1958 · driest 0 mm in 1984 | 75 |
| April | 29.4°C22 Apr 1965 | -16.7°C8 Apr 1983 | 33 mm14 Apr 1977 | 89 mm1942 · driest 0 mm in 1972 | 76 |
| May | 33.3°C28 May 1951 | -11.7°C1 May 1967 | 45 mm18 May 1954 | 95 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 2017 | 77 |
| June | 36.7°C26 Jun 1994 | -5.6°C2 Jun 1970 | 130 mm17 Jun 1965 | 166 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 1964 | 74 |
| July | 35.0°C13 Jul 2020 | -0.6°C24 Jul 1974 | 119 mm27 Jul 2008 | 276 mm1950 · driest 0 mm in 2016 | 74 |
| August | 33.3°C2 Aug 1980 | -0.6°C6 Aug 1978 | 59 mm10 Aug 1963 | 288 mm1984 · driest 1 mm in 2017 | 75 |
| September | 32.8°C5 Sep 1948 | -6.1°C20 Sep 1971 | 66 mm10 Sep 1964 | 148 mm1964 · driest 2 mm in 1959 | 77 |
| October | 28.9°C1 Oct 2010 | -15.0°C28 Oct 1970 | 51 mm7 Oct 1985 | 178 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 1952 | 77 |
| November | 26.1°C4 Nov 2025 | -28.3°C29 Nov 1976 | 34 mm12 Nov 1994 | 75 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 1950 | 77 |
| December | 22.8°C28 Dec 1980 | -31.1°C24 Dec 1953 | 88 mm7 Dec 1978 | 226 mm1978 · driest 0 mm in 1981 | 75 |
| Month | Days 25°C+ | Days 30°C+ | Frost nights | Heavy rain (10 mm+) | Snow days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 0 | 25 | <1 | 2 |
| February | 0 | 0 | 21 | <1 | 2 |
| March | 0 | 0 | 19 | <1 | 1 |
| April | 1 | 0 | 12 | <1 | <1 |
| May | 11 | <1 | 2 | <1 | 0 |
| June | 24 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| July | 25 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| August | 22 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| September | 13 | <1 | <1 | 2 | 0 |
| October | 2 | 0 | 9 | <1 | <1 |
| November | 0 | 0 | 20 | <1 | <1 |
| December | 0 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 2 |
| Month | Warm & dry days | Wet days | Washouts | Week with 3+ wet days | Daytime mean has ranged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | <1% | 12% | 2% | 10% | 7.0–11.8°C |
| February | 2% | 12% | 3% | 11% | 8.6–13.7°C |
| March | 10% | 12% | 3% | 8% | 11.8–16.2°C |
| April | 43% | 8% | 2% | 5% | 16.5–20.9°C |
| May | 77% | 10% | 2% | 9% | 21.0–24.9°C |
| June | 79% | 21% | 4% | 24% | 26.1–29.4°C |
| July | 64% | 36% | 9% | 51% | 25.3–29.6°C |
| August | 63% | 37% | 11% | 47% | 24.4–28.3°C |
| September | 72% | 24% | 7% | 27% | 22.2–26.0°C |
| October | 51% | 14% | 4% | 12% | 17.2–21.2°C |
| November | 11% | 10% | 2% | 7% | 11.4–16.7°C |
| December | <1% | 13% | 4% | 10% | 7.9–12.2°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 5455419
- NOAA station
- USC00297649 · RUIDOSO
- Station distance
- 22.9 km from the place centre
- Climate period
- 1991–2020
- Minimum month coverage
- 24 usable years
- Daylight
- Calculated from latitude 33.33°, 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.