May
May · September · June
79climate match
United States · 1991–2020
Best time to visit
Ponderosa.
May leads for comfortable weather in Ponderosa: typically 25.1°C by day, 5.2°C at night, with 20 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.
Best comfortMay
Typical high25.1°C
Typical low5.2°C
Rain in May20 mm
June
June · August · July
64climate match
April
April · October · May
84climate match
The weakest month is December, scoring 9 against May’s 79 — days reach only 8.5°C, 15° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -6.8°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
118.9° / -6.9°
Feb
2211.3° / -5.1°
Mar
4216° / -2.1°
Apr
6120.1° / 0.8°
May
7925.1° / 5.2°
Jun
6931° / 10.3°
Jul
6331.8° / 13.4°
Aug
6630.4° / 12.7°
Sep
7727° / 8.9°
Oct
6821.1° / 2.6°
Nov
3413.9° / -3°
Dec
98.5° / -6.8°
| Month | Day | Night | Rain | Wet days | Daylight | Comfort | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 8.9°C | -6.9°C | 25 mm | 3.4 | 9 h 59 | 11 | Strong coverage |
| February | 11.3°C | -5.1°C | 19 mm | 3 | 10 h 50 | 22 | Strong coverage |
| March | 16°C | -2.1°C | 27 mm | 3.6 | 11 h 51 | 42 | Strong coverage |
| April | 20.1°C | 0.8°C | 20 mm | 2.4 | 13 h 02 | 61 | Strong coverage |
| May | 25.1°C | 5.2°C | 20 mm | 3.1 | 14 h 02 | 79 | Strong coverage |
| June | 31°C | 10.3°C | 17 mm | 2.7 | 14 h 33 | 69 | Strong coverage |
| July | 31.8°C | 13.4°C | 62 mm | 7.9 | 14 h 21 | 63 | Strong coverage |
| August | 30.4°C | 12.7°C | 67 mm | 8 | 13 h 30 | 66 | Strong coverage |
| September | 27°C | 8.9°C | 41 mm | 4.7 | 12 h 22 | 77 | Strong coverage |
| October | 21.1°C | 2.6°C | 34 mm | 3.6 | 11 h 13 | 68 | Strong coverage |
| November | 13.9°C | -3°C | 23 mm | 2.9 | 10 h 14 | 34 | Strong coverage |
| December | 8.5°C | -6.8°C | 26 mm | 3.3 | 9 h 45 | 9 | Strong coverage |
What has changed
Ponderosa runs +1.4°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
+1.0
Feb
+1.0
Mar
+2.4
Apr
+1.5
May
+0.9
Jun
+2.0
Jul
+0.8
Aug
+1.4
Sep
+1.8
Oct
+1.3
Nov
+1.2
Dec
+1.2
| Month | Record high | Record low | Wettest day | Wettest / driest month | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20.0°C20 Jan 1950 | -27.8°C6 Jan 1971 | 41 mm8 Jan 1993 | 130 mm1916 · driest 0 mm in 2025 | 113 |
| February | 23.3°C25 Feb 1986 | -25.0°C1 Feb 1951 | 29 mm27 Feb 1918 | 66 mm1927 · driest 0 mm in 2026 | 113 |
| March | 30.6°C25 Mar 2026 | -18.3°C11 Mar 1948 | 49 mm12 Mar 1985 | 102 mm1941 · driest 0 mm in 1950 | 114 |
| April | 29.4°C30 Apr 1928 | -12.2°C5 Apr 1983 | 35 mm3 Apr 1922 | 110 mm1915 · driest 0 mm in 2011 | 108 |
| May | 36.1°C31 May 2002 | -5.0°C7 May 1917 | 44 mm16 May 1935 | 98 mm1935 · driest 0 mm in 2014 | 110 |
| June | 38.9°C27 Jun 2013 | -3.3°C1 Jun 1919 | 60 mm4 Jun 1921 | 121 mm1933 · driest 0 mm in 2012 | 115 |
| July | 38.9°C10 Jul 2003 | 4.4°C13 Jul 1973 | 60 mm7 Jul 1923 | 154 mm1919 · driest 0 mm in 2025 | 111 |
| August | 36.7°C18 Aug 1951 | 4.4°C22 Aug 1973 | 57 mm3 Aug 1933 | 200 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 2021 | 110 |
| September | 35.0°C2 Sep 1950 | -3.3°C30 Sep 1985 | 78 mm23 Sep 1934 | 195 mm1938 · driest 0 mm in 2024 | 111 |
| October | 32.2°C1 Oct 1980 | -12.8°C31 Oct 2019 | 86 mm24 Oct 2018 | 159 mm1957 · driest 0 mm in 1995 | 111 |
| November | 25.6°C1 Nov 1924 | -21.7°C28 Nov 1976 | 42 mm12 Nov 1994 | 120 mm1978 · driest 0 mm in 2007 | 110 |
| December | 21.1°C4 Dec 1949 | -22.2°C25 Dec 1924 | 51 mm1 Dec 2007 | 105 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1973 | 114 |
| Month | Days 25°C+ | Days 30°C+ | Frost nights | Heavy rain (10 mm+) | Snow days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 0 | 26 | <1 | 2 |
| February | 0 | 0 | 23 | <1 | 1 |
| March | <1 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 1 |
| April | 3 | 0 | 12 | <1 | <1 |
| May | 16 | 3 | 2 | <1 | 0 |
| June | 25 | 17 | 0 | <1 | 0 |
| July | 27 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| August | 26 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| September | 21 | 6 | <1 | 1 | 0 |
| October | 5 | 0 | 7 | 1 | <1 |
| November | 0 | 0 | 21 | <1 | <1 |
| December | 0 | 0 | 25 | <1 | 2 |
| Month | Warm & dry days | Wet days | Washouts | Week with 3+ wet days | Daytime mean has ranged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0% | 12% | 2% | 9% | 5.4–10.9°C |
| February | 2% | 15% | 2% | 11% | 7.6–13.6°C |
| March | 14% | 14% | 3% | 10% | 10.8–18.0°C |
| April | 49% | 12% | 3% | 8% | 16.8–22.1°C |
| May | 78% | 13% | 3% | 11% | 21.9–26.7°C |
| June | 87% | 12% | 3% | 12% | 26.8–32.0°C |
| July | 69% | 30% | 7% | 40% | 27.8–32.5°C |
| August | 68% | 31% | 7% | 33% | 26.7–31.2°C |
| September | 79% | 18% | 4% | 17% | 23.7–28.2°C |
| October | 58% | 13% | 4% | 12% | 17.7–23.0°C |
| November | 10% | 11% | 2% | 7% | 10.7–16.5°C |
| December | <1% | 12% | 2% | 8% | 5.6–11.5°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 5484803
- NOAA station
- USC00294369 · JEMEZ SPRINGS
- Station distance
- 13.3 km from the place centre
- Climate period
- 1991–2020
- Minimum month coverage
- 26 usable years
- Daylight
- Calculated from latitude 35.66°, 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.