United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
La Bajada.

May leads for comfortable weather in La Bajada: typically 26.3°C by day, 8.3°C at night, with 22 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high26.3°C

Typical low8.3°C

Rain in May22 mm

Comfort

May

May · September · October

80climate match

Beach

September

September · June · August

71climate match

Outdoors

April

April · October · May

84climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 13 against May’s 80 — days reach only 9.1°C, 15° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -6.3°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

139.1° / -6.3°

Feb

2812.5° / -4°

Mar

4917.1° / -0.7°

Apr

6921.1° / 2.9°

May

8026.3° / 8.3°

Jun

6932.6° / 13.7°

Jul

6033.8° / 16.4°

Aug

6632.4° / 15.4°

Sep

7629° / 11.4°

Oct

7522.4° / 4.4°

Nov

4014.9° / -1.7°

Dec

149.3° / -6°

Monthly climate evidence for La Bajada — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	9.1°C	-6.3°C	17 mm	2.9	10 h	13	Strong coverage
February	12.5°C	-4°C	13 mm	2.4	10 h 50	28	Strong coverage
March	17.1°C	-0.7°C	17 mm	2.7	11 h 52	49	Strong coverage
April	21.1°C	2.9°C	16 mm	2.7	13 h 02	69	Strong coverage
May	26.3°C	8.3°C	22 mm	3.3	14 h 01	80	Strong coverage
June	32.6°C	13.7°C	19 mm	3.5	14 h 33	69	Strong coverage
July	33.8°C	16.4°C	48 mm	7.2	14 h 20	60	Strong coverage
August	32.4°C	15.4°C	44 mm	7.7	13 h 30	66	Strong coverage
September	29°C	11.4°C	33 mm	4.6	12 h 21	76	Strong coverage
October	22.4°C	4.4°C	31 mm	4.3	11 h 13	75	Strong coverage
November	14.9°C	-1.7°C	20 mm	2.9	10 h 14	40	Strong coverage
December	9.3°C	-6°C	17 mm	2.8	9 h 46	14	Strong coverage

What has changed

La Bajada runs +2.5°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

+1.9

Feb

+2.7

Mar

+2.8

Apr

+2.0

May

+1.9

Jun

+2.6

Jul

+2.4

Aug

+3.1

Sep

+3.2

Oct

+2.6

Nov

+2.3

Dec

+2.4

May daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 26.1°C.

Records at COCHITI DAM, 1975–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	19.4°C31 Jan 2016	-20.0°C13 Jan 1977	20 mm18 Jan 1979	58 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1976	49
February	25.6°C26 Feb 2026	-25.6°C3 Feb 2011	22 mm24 Feb 2004	40 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 2006	48
March	34.4°C26 Mar 2026	-16.1°C1 Mar 2007	33 mm13 Mar 1985	69 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 2016	50
April	31.7°C13 Apr 2025	-11.7°C13 Apr 2007	57 mm29 Apr 1985	88 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 1991	50
May	37.2°C27 May 2005	-7.8°C1 May 1976	41 mm27 May 2003	79 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 2011	49
June	42.2°C17 Jun 2025	1.1°C6 Jun 2008	25 mm14 Jun 1991	79 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 2011	50
July	42.2°C12 Jul 2020	4.4°C10 Jul 2008	61 mm3 Jul 2010	129 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2023	47
August	40.6°C9 Aug 2025	5.6°C14 Aug 2008	41 mm16 Aug 1977	122 mm1977 · driest 9 mm in 2007	49
September	38.9°C7 Sep 2020	-1.1°C28 Sep 1996	64 mm14 Sep 2013	181 mm2013 · driest 1 mm in 1998	49
October	34.4°C1 Oct 2024	-10.6°C22 Oct 1996	41 mm12 Oct 1986	86 mm1984 · driest 0 mm in 1975	48
November	27.2°C4 Nov 2025	-24.4°C29 Nov 1976	53 mm3 Nov 1986	82 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 1977	48
December	20.6°C23 Dec 2025	-25.6°C10 Dec 1978	26 mm29 Dec 2006	68 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 1989	48

Typical days per month at COCHITI DAM, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	29	<1	1
February	0	0	25	<1	<1
March	1	0	18	<1	<1
April	8	<1	7	<1	0
May	21	7	<1	<1	0
June	29	24	0	<1	0
July	31	28	0	1	0
August	31	25	0	1	0
September	26	14	0	<1	0
October	12	1	4	1	0
November	<1	0	20	<1	<1
December	0	0	28	<1	1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was May (scoring 84); on 2011–2025 it is October (82). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in COCHITI 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	0%	9%	1%	5%	5.6–11.7°C
February	5%	9%	<1%	4%	9.5–15.3°C
March	29%	9%	2%	4%	13.8–19.2°C
April	66%	9%	2%	6%	17.9–23.6°C
May	83%	11%	2%	11%	23.4–28.7°C
June	88%	12%	2%	10%	29.4–34.3°C
July	77%	23%	4%	25%	31.7–35.7°C
August	76%	24%	4%	23%	29.9–35.0°C
September	83%	16%	4%	15%	26.1–31.4°C
October	67%	13%	3%	11%	19.8–24.7°C
November	20%	9%	2%	5%	11.9–18.2°C
December	<1%	9%	1%	4%	6.6–12.4°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.

1977Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 37-year average. Warmest: 2017. Coolest: 1982.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5474765
NOAA station: USC00291982 · COCHITI DAM
Station distance: 12.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 35.56°, 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 COCHITI DAM is what differs

Santo Domingo Pueblo→Peña Blanca→Cochiti Lake→Cochiti→Cochiti Pueblo→Domingo→

Or put two places side by side: La Bajada vs Santo Domingo Pueblo

Best time to visitLa Bajada.

May

September

April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

La Bajada runs +2.5°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
La Bajada.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

La Bajada runs +2.5°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.