United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
El Rito.

September leads for comfortable weather in El Rito: typically 24°C by day, 5.2°C at night, with 38 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high24°C

Typical low5.2°C

Rain in September38 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · August

79climate match

Beach

July

July · June · August

59climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · October

81climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 79 — days reach only 2.7°C, 21° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -13.5°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

52.7° / -13.5°

Feb

55.8° / -10.1°

Mar

2111.8° / -6°

Apr

4216.6° / -2.8°

May

6521.1° / 1.6°

Jun

7526.8° / 6.4°

Jul

6928.4° / 9.4°

Aug

7027.2° / 8.9°

Sep

7924° / 5.2°

Oct

5018.1° / -1.2°

Nov

1410.4° / -7.3°

Dec

53.2° / -13.1°

Monthly climate evidence for El Rito — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	2.7°C	-13.5°C	18 mm	3.9	9 h 54	5	Strong coverage
February	5.8°C	-10.1°C	18 mm	4	10 h 47	5	Strong coverage
March	11.8°C	-6°C	24 mm	4.2	11 h 51	21	Strong coverage
April	16.6°C	-2.8°C	26 mm	4.5	13 h 05	42	Strong coverage
May	21.1°C	1.6°C	31 mm	4.5	14 h 07	65	Strong coverage
June	26.8°C	6.4°C	21 mm	3.4	14 h 40	75	Strong coverage
July	28.4°C	9.4°C	43 mm	8.4	14 h 27	69	Strong coverage
August	27.2°C	8.9°C	54 mm	9.1	13 h 34	70	Strong coverage
September	24°C	5.2°C	38 mm	5.5	12 h 22	79	Strong coverage
October	18.1°C	-1.2°C	31 mm	4.4	11 h 11	50	Strong coverage
November	10.4°C	-7.3°C	23 mm	3.8	10 h 09	14	Strong coverage
December	3.2°C	-13.1°C	23 mm	4.4	9 h 39	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

El Rito runs +1.7°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

+1.2

Mar

+3.5

Apr

+2.4

May

+0.9

Jun

+2.8

Jul

+1.2

Aug

+1.7

Sep

+2.4

Oct

+1.3

Nov

+2.4

Dec

+0.7

September daytime highs, 2011–2022. Last recorded: 26.4°C.

Records at CERRO, 1910–2022
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	17.2°C16 Jan 2000	-36.7°C29 Jan 1919	32 mm1 Jan 1974	54 mm1979 · driest 0 mm in 1931	108
February	18.3°C26 Feb 1986	-36.1°C8 Feb 1933	28 mm7 Feb 1937	46 mm1948 · driest 0 mm in 2014	107
March	25.0°C30 Mar 1933	-26.7°C6 Mar 1939	41 mm12 Mar 1985	68 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 1971	104
April	27.8°C29 Apr 1981	-21.1°C4 Apr 1945	44 mm5 Apr 1912	159 mm1942 · driest 0 mm in 1989	105
May	35.0°C31 May 2002	-11.7°C12 May 1922	56 mm8 May 1936	115 mm1934 · driest 0 mm in 1998	105
June	37.8°C19 Jun 1924	-5.6°C1 Jun 1919	37 mm4 Jun 1950	87 mm1921 · driest 0 mm in 1980	106
July	36.1°C14 Jul 1933	-3.9°C1 Jul 2020	41 mm21 Jul 1921	121 mm1911 · driest 11 mm in 1980	108
August	36.7°C2 Aug 1937	-1.1°C9 Aug 1928	52 mm19 Aug 1943	170 mm1993 · driest 2 mm in 2021	105
September	35.6°C2 Sep 1927	-7.8°C17 Sep 1928	51 mm23 Sep 1934	103 mm1923 · driest 0 mm in 1957	108
October	31.1°C12 Oct 1933	-19.4°C22 Oct 1996	46 mm15 Oct 1944	103 mm1957 · driest 0 mm in 1988	106
November	25.0°C5 Nov 1928	-28.9°C27 Nov 1911	27 mm19 Nov 1975	73 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 2021	103
December	20.0°C16 Dec 1939	-34.4°C23 Dec 1990	39 mm5 Dec 1913	112 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1958	105

Typical days per month at CERRO, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	30	<1	4
February	0	0	28	<1	4
March	0	0	29	<1	2
April	<1	0	23	<1	2
May	5	<1	10	<1	<1
June	19	6	1	<1	0
July	27	10	<1	1	0
August	23	5	0	1	0
September	14	1	3	1	<1
October	2	0	19	1	1
November	0	0	27	<1	2
December	0	0	30	<1	4

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 79); on 2011–2025 it is September (79). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in CERRO’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	0%	11%	<1%	6%	-1.6–6.9°C
February	0%	12%	<1%	7%	1.5–9.0°C
March	2%	13%	2%	7%	6.9–13.3°C
April	21%	12%	2%	8%	12.5–19.2°C
May	57%	14%	3%	12%	18.1–23.2°C
June	83%	13%	2%	11%	23.3–28.1°C
July	73%	27%	5%	31%	26.1–29.6°C
August	72%	27%	5%	28%	24.9–28.9°C
September	74%	18%	4%	16%	21.0–26.3°C
October	38%	13%	3%	9%	15.1–20.3°C
November	2%	10%	1%	4%	6.5–14.3°C
December	0%	11%	2%	6%	-0.6–7.2°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.

1912Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 81-year average. Warmest: 1954. Coolest: 1992.2021

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5466536
NOAA station: USC00291630 · CERRO
Station distance: 7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 25 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 36.80°, 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 CERRO is what differs

Questa→San Cristobal→Buena Vista→Cerro→Lama→Sunshine→

Or put two places side by side: El Rito vs Questa

Best time to visitEl Rito.

September

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May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

El Rito runs +1.7°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
El Rito.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

El Rito runs +1.7°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.