United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Elephant Butte.

October leads for comfortable weather in Elephant Butte: typically 25.2°C by day, 10°C at night, with 22 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high25.2°C

Typical low10°C

Rain in October22 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

87climate match

Beach

September

September · May · August

80climate match

Outdoors

March

March · April · October

90climate match

The weakest month is December, scoring 33 against October’s 87 — days reach only 12.5°C, 11° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -1.1°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

3413° / -1.4°

Feb

4916.2° / 1.1°

Mar

6920.2° / 4.5°

Apr

8624.9° / 8.9°

May

8029.6° / 13.9°

Jun

5535.1° / 19.4°

Jul

4734.9° / 21.2°

Aug

5433.8° / 20.1°

Sep

7330.4° / 16.4°

Oct

8725.2° / 10°

Nov

5918.1° / 3.3°

Dec

3312.5° / -1.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Elephant Butte — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	13°C	-1.4°C	10 mm	2.1	10 h 11	34	Strong coverage
February	16.2°C	1.1°C	8 mm	1.6	10 h 57	49	Strong coverage
March	20.2°C	4.5°C	7 mm	1.6	11 h 53	69	Strong coverage
April	24.9°C	8.9°C	6 mm	1.1	12 h 57	86	Strong coverage
May	29.6°C	13.9°C	10 mm	2	13 h 51	80	Strong coverage
June	35.1°C	19.4°C	14 mm	2.2	14 h 20	55	Good coverage
July	34.9°C	21.2°C	55 mm	6.5	14 h 08	47	Strong coverage
August	33.8°C	20.1°C	42 mm	6.8	13 h 23	54	Strong coverage
September	30.4°C	16.4°C	44 mm	4.9	12 h 20	73	Strong coverage
October	25.2°C	10°C	22 mm	3.5	11 h 18	87	Strong coverage
November	18.1°C	3.3°C	15 mm	2.1	10 h 24	59	Strong coverage
December	12.5°C	-1.1°C	16 mm	2.4	9 h 58	33	Strong coverage

What has changed

Elephant Butte runs +1.8°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

+1.3

Feb

+1.7

Mar

+2.0

Apr

+1.9

May

+1.4

Jun

+2.3

Jul

+1.8

Aug

+2.2

Sep

+2.0

Oct

+1.8

Nov

+1.4

Dec

+1.6

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 26.6°C.

Records at ELEPHANT BUTTE DAM, 1908–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	25.6°C31 Jan 1911	-21.7°C11 Jan 1962	25 mm14 Jan 2017	54 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 1923	107
February	29.4°C15 Feb 2014	-18.9°C3 Feb 2011	27 mm16 Feb 1937	54 mm1948 · driest 0 mm in 1994	107
March	34.4°C21 Mar 2026	-10.0°C1 Mar 1922	28 mm22 Mar 2000	44 mm1911 · driest 0 mm in 1996	108
April	35.6°C15 Apr 2008	-5.0°C5 Apr 1964	36 mm16 Apr 2010	68 mm1931 · driest 0 mm in 2022	107
May	39.4°C27 May 2011	0.6°C4 May 1935	51 mm1 May 1916	71 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 2003	106
June	43.9°C26 Jun 1994	3.9°C4 Jun 1915	43 mm29 Jun 1978	73 mm1914 · driest 0 mm in 1915	104
July	43.3°C12 Jul 2020	10.6°C1 Jul 1955	99 mm9 Jul 2008	162 mm2008 · driest 0 mm in 2005	106
August	42.2°C5 Aug 2023	11.7°C14 Aug 1914	50 mm10 Aug 1967	133 mm1957 · driest 4 mm in 1962	106
September	38.9°C7 Sep 2020	2.8°C27 Sep 1936	67 mm15 Sep 1979	194 mm2013 · driest 0 mm in 1955	105
October	36.7°C6 Oct 1934	-5.6°C31 Oct 1991	58 mm17 Oct 1985	106 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 1964	107
November	31.1°C6 Nov 1918	-12.8°C28 Nov 1976	43 mm2 Nov 1986	86 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 1948	107
December	25.6°C10 Dec 2014	-19.4°C19 Dec 1909	36 mm6 Dec 1912	119 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 1922	107

Typical days per month at ELEPHANT BUTTE DAM, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	21	<1
February	<1	0	12	<1
March	6	<1	4	0
April	17	4	<1	<1
May	27	16	0	<1
June	30	28	0	<1
July	31	28	0	2
August	31	27	0	1
September	27	18	0	1
October	18	5	<1	<1
November	3	0	7	<1
December	0	0	21	<1

How often, not how much — every day in ELEPHANT BUTTE DAM’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%	5%	<1%	2%	9.8–15.5°C
February	23%	6%	1%	2%	13.4–18.5°C
March	51%	5%	<1%	2%	16.9–22.6°C
April	84%	4%	<1%	2%	21.9–26.3°C
May	93%	6%	<1%	3%	26.8–30.9°C
June	93%	7%	2%	5%	32.3–36.3°C
July	79%	21%	4%	20%	32.1–36.2°C
August	79%	21%	5%	19%	30.8–35.0°C
September	85%	15%	4%	12%	27.8–31.9°C
October	81%	10%	2%	7%	22.1–26.9°C
November	39%	6%	1%	4%	15.0–20.6°C
December	6%	7%	2%	4%	9.5–15.9°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.

1909Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 94-year average. Warmest: 2024. Coolest: 1931.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5466605
NOAA station: USC00292848 · ELEPHANT BUTTE DAM
Station distance: 0.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 33.15°, 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 ELEPHANT BUTTE DAM is what differs

Jornada→Cutter→Elephant Butte Estates→Engle→

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