United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Point of Sands.

April leads for comfortable weather in Point of Sands: typically 26.3°C by day, 4.6°C at night, with 8 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortApril

Typical high26.3°C

Typical low4.6°C

Rain in April8 mm

Comfort

April

April · October · September

74climate match

Beach

July

July · September · August

68climate match

Outdoors

March

March · November · October

78climate match

The weakest month is December, scoring 29 against April’s 74 — nights drop to -5.9°C, and days reach only 13.8°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

3014.1° / -5.7°

Feb

4617.4° / -3.1°

Mar

6721.9° / 0.4°

Apr

7426.3° / 4.6°

May

6631.3° / 9.7°

Jun

5836.6° / 15.4°

Jul

5136.4° / 18.3°

Aug

5635.1° / 17.1°

Sep

7031.9° / 13.1°

Oct

7426.5° / 5.4°

Nov

5519.4° / -1.8°

Dec

2913.8° / -5.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Point of Sands — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	14.1°C	-5.7°C	14 mm	2.4	10 h 13	30	Strong coverage
February	17.4°C	-3.1°C	10 mm	2	10 h 58	46	Strong coverage
March	21.9°C	0.4°C	7 mm	1.4	11 h 53	67	Strong coverage
April	26.3°C	4.6°C	8 mm	1.3	12 h 57	74	Strong coverage
May	31.3°C	9.7°C	11 mm	1.7	13 h 49	66	Strong coverage
June	36.6°C	15.4°C	19 mm	2.4	14 h 18	58	Strong coverage
July	36.4°C	18.3°C	33 mm	5.1	14 h 07	51	Strong coverage
August	35.1°C	17.1°C	44 mm	5.3	13 h 21	56	Strong coverage
September	31.9°C	13.1°C	35 mm	4	12 h 20	70	Strong coverage
October	26.5°C	5.4°C	25 mm	3.3	11 h 19	74	Strong coverage
November	19.4°C	-1.8°C	11 mm	1.9	10 h 26	55	Strong coverage
December	13.8°C	-5.9°C	17 mm	1.9	10 h 00	29	Strong coverage

What has changed

Point of Sands runs +0.9°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

+0.2

Feb

+0.9

Mar

+1.0

Apr

+0.6

May

+0.4

Jun

+1.5

Jul

+0.8

Aug

+1.3

Sep

+1.1

Oct

+1.2

Nov

+0.9

Dec

+1.2

April daytime highs, 2011–2024. Last recorded: 26.5°C.

Records at WHITE SANDS NATL MON, 1939–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	25.6°C25 Jan 1999	-31.7°C11 Jan 1962	41 mm18 Jan 2017	59 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 1959	85
February	29.4°C12 Feb 1957	-25.6°C2 Feb 1951	31 mm5 Feb 1988	62 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1984	87
March	35.6°C22 Mar 2026	-17.8°C3 Mar 1971	39 mm6 Mar 1958	67 mm1958 · driest 0 mm in 1982	86
April	36.1°C22 Apr 1965	-11.7°C4 Apr 1945	28 mm7 Apr 1942	61 mm1942 · driest 0 mm in 2018	86
May	40.0°C28 May 1951	-6.7°C2 May 1967	36 mm9 May 2012	83 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1971	87
June	43.9°C27 Jun 1994	2.2°C1 Jun 1988	48 mm28 Jun 2021	120 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 1951	87
July	43.3°C21 Jul 2023	8.9°C5 Jul 1956	51 mm27 Jul 2018	105 mm1962 · driest 0 mm in 1951	86
August	43.3°C2 Aug 1945	7.2°C21 Aug 1956	70 mm20 Aug 2022	249 mm1988 · driest 1 mm in 1943	85
September	40.0°C9 Sep 2023	-1.1°C30 Sep 1945	97 mm21 Sep 1941	246 mm1941 · driest 0 mm in 1956	86
October	36.1°C5 Oct 2000	-10.6°C28 Oct 1970	45 mm17 Oct 1985	105 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 1952	84
November	31.1°C27 Nov 2005	-24.4°C29 Nov 1976	33 mm3 Nov 1986	77 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 1955	85
December	28.9°C10 Dec 1939	-22.2°C24 Dec 1953	32 mm9 Dec 1960	99 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 2005	85

Typical days per month at WHITE SANDS NATL MON, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	<1	0	27	<1	<1
February	1	0	21	<1	<1
March	10	<1	15	<1	0
April	21	7	6	<1	0
May	28	21	<1	<1	0
June	29	28	0	<1	0
July	31	30	0	1	0
August	30	29	0	1	0
September	28	22	0	1	0
October	21	8	4	<1	<1
November	4	0	20	<1	0
December	<1	0	26	<1	<1

How often, not how much — every day in WHITE SANDS NATL MON’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	10%	7%	1%	3%	11.3–16.8°C
February	34%	7%	<1%	3%	15.2–20.0°C
March	66%	5%	<1%	1%	19.3–23.9°C
April	90%	4%	<1%	2%	24.8–28.3°C
May	94%	6%	1%	2%	29.7–33.0°C
June	91%	9%	2%	4%	34.5–38.1°C
July	83%	17%	4%	14%	34.6–37.8°C
August	82%	18%	5%	13%	33.3–36.8°C
September	87%	13%	3%	11%	30.3–34.0°C
October	84%	10%	2%	6%	24.0–28.1°C
November	49%	6%	1%	2%	16.8–21.6°C
December	11%	7%	2%	4%	11.6–16.9°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.

1940Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 73-year average. Warmest: 2017. Coolest: 1979.2024

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5484708
NOAA station: USC00299686 · WHITE SANDS NATL MON
Station distance: 4.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 32.75°, 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 WHITE SANDS NATL MON is what differs

Holloman Air Force Base→Dunes→Valmont→Monista (historical)→

Or put two places side by side: Point of Sands vs Holloman Air Force Base

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