October
October · April · May
79climate match
United States · 1991–2020
Best time to visit
Artesia.
October leads for comfortable weather in Artesia: typically 25.5°C by day, 6.6°C at night, with 31 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.
Best comfortOctober
Typical high25.5°C
Typical low6.6°C
Rain in October31 mm
August
August · July · September
73climate match
March
March · November · October
81climate match
The weakest month is January, scoring 32 against October’s 79 — nights drop to -4.7°C, and days reach only 14.3°C, 10° below 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
3214.3° / -4.7°
Feb
4617.2° / -2.5°
Mar
6721.5° / 1.5°
Apr
7625.9° / 5.4°
May
7230.5° / 11.3°
Jun
6035.2° / 16.6°
Jul
5335.1° / 18.8°
Aug
5834.5° / 18°
Sep
7230.5° / 13.6°
Oct
7925.5° / 6.6°
Nov
5618.9° / -0.2°
Dec
3214.1° / -4.4°
| Month | Day | Night | Rain | Wet days | Daylight | Comfort | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 14.3°C | -4.7°C | 12 mm | 2.2 | 10 h 12 | 32 | Strong coverage |
| February | 17.2°C | -2.5°C | 10 mm | 1.7 | 10 h 58 | 46 | Strong coverage |
| March | 21.5°C | 1.5°C | 11 mm | 1.9 | 11 h 53 | 67 | Strong coverage |
| April | 25.9°C | 5.4°C | 13 mm | 1.8 | 12 h 57 | 76 | Strong coverage |
| May | 30.5°C | 11.3°C | 29 mm | 2.8 | 13 h 50 | 72 | Strong coverage |
| June | 35.2°C | 16.6°C | 34 mm | 3.5 | 14 h 18 | 60 | Strong coverage |
| July | 35.1°C | 18.8°C | 42 mm | 5.3 | 14 h 07 | 53 | Strong coverage |
| August | 34.5°C | 18°C | 41 mm | 4.5 | 13 h 22 | 58 | Strong coverage |
| September | 30.5°C | 13.6°C | 48 mm | 4.9 | 12 h 20 | 72 | Strong coverage |
| October | 25.5°C | 6.6°C | 31 mm | 3.8 | 11 h 18 | 79 | Strong coverage |
| November | 18.9°C | -0.2°C | 16 mm | 2 | 10 h 25 | 56 | Strong coverage |
| December | 14.1°C | -4.4°C | 14 mm | 2.1 | 10 h | 32 | Strong coverage |
What has changed
Artesia 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
+0.5
Feb
+0.7
Mar
+1.9
Apr
+0.8
May
+0.8
Jun
+2.0
Jul
+1.1
Aug
+1.9
Sep
+1.5
Oct
+0.8
Nov
+0.6
Dec
+0.9
| Month | Record high | Record low | Wettest day | Wettest / driest month | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.4°C25 Jan 1970 | -28.9°C11 Jan 1962 | 62 mm28 Jan 2026 | 79 mm2026 · driest 0 mm in 1924 | 117 |
| February | 31.7°C11 Feb 2017 | -22.8°C1 Feb 1951 | 31 mm5 Feb 1948 | 56 mm1973 · driest 0 mm in 2008 | 117 |
| March | 37.8°C27 Mar 2026 | -21.1°C13 Mar 1932 | 74 mm22 Mar 1919 | 116 mm1919 · driest 0 mm in 1955 | 117 |
| April | 40.0°C10 Apr 1934 | -10.0°C1 Apr 2023 | 83 mm4 Apr 2004 | 147 mm1915 · driest 0 mm in 1972 | 116 |
| May | 41.1°C24 May 1989 | -3.3°C2 May 1967 | 79 mm28 May 1937 | 239 mm1941 · driest 0 mm in 1998 | 117 |
| June | 46.7°C29 Jun 1918 | 4.4°C4 Jun 1919 | 95 mm2 Jun 1948 | 248 mm1978 · driest 0 mm in 1990 | 118 |
| July | 43.9°C15 Jul 1958 | 9.4°C2 Jul 1924 | 140 mm24 Jul 1911 | 197 mm1911 · driest 0 mm in 1917 | 119 |
| August | 43.3°C15 Aug 1919 | 7.2°C31 Aug 1915 | 110 mm23 Aug 1966 | 169 mm1966 · driest 1 mm in 1938 | 117 |
| September | 41.1°C5 Sep 1948 | 0.0°C28 Sep 1968 | 87 mm22 Sep 1941 | 230 mm1980 · driest 0 mm in 1906 | 118 |
| October | 37.8°C8 Oct 1934 | -10.0°C31 Oct 2019 | 95 mm23 Oct 1974 | 178 mm1974 · driest 0 mm in 1967 | 118 |
| November | 32.2°C7 Nov 1932 | -23.3°C30 Nov 1976 | 41 mm7 Nov 2000 | 97 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 1949 | 117 |
| December | 30.0°C22 Dec 1933 | -25.0°C15 Dec 1987 | 31 mm1 Dec 1931 | 76 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 1922 | 117 |
| Month | Days 25°C+ | Days 30°C+ | Frost nights | Heavy rain (10 mm+) | Snow days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1 | 0 | 27 | <1 | <1 |
| February | 3 | <1 | 22 | <1 | <1 |
| March | 11 | 2 | 12 | <1 | <1 |
| April | 19 | 8 | 4 | <1 | 0 |
| May | 27 | 19 | <1 | <1 | 0 |
| June | 30 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| July | 31 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| August | 31 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| September | 27 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| October | 19 | 8 | 3 | <1 | 0 |
| November | 5 | <1 | 16 | <1 | <1 |
| December | <1 | 0 | 27 | <1 | <1 |
| Month | Warm & dry days | Wet days | Washouts | Week with 3+ wet days | Daytime mean has ranged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21% | 6% | 1% | 2% | 10.9–17.3°C |
| February | 38% | 7% | <1% | 3% | 14.3–20.4°C |
| March | 63% | 5% | <1% | 2% | 18.4–23.8°C |
| April | 84% | 6% | 2% | 3% | 23.6–28.2°C |
| May | 88% | 10% | 3% | 6% | 27.9–32.7°C |
| June | 88% | 12% | 4% | 9% | 32.5–36.9°C |
| July | 85% | 16% | 4% | 11% | 32.6–37.2°C |
| August | 85% | 15% | 4% | 11% | 31.7–36.5°C |
| September | 84% | 15% | 5% | 13% | 28.3–33.3°C |
| October | 80% | 11% | 3% | 9% | 22.6–28.1°C |
| November | 50% | 7% | 1% | 4% | 16.1–22.2°C |
| December | 22% | 7% | 1% | 3% | 11.0–17.5°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 5455796
- NOAA station
- USC00290600 · ARTESIA 6S
- Station distance
- 9.9 km from the place centre
- Climate period
- 1991–2020
- Minimum month coverage
- 29 usable years
- Daylight
- Calculated from latitude 32.84°, 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.