United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Taos.

September leads for comfortable weather in Taos: typically 25.4°C by day, 6.8°C at night, with 36 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high25.4°C

Typical low6.8°C

Rain in September36 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · June

79climate match

Beach

July

July · June · August

65climate match

Outdoors

October

October · May · September

80climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 79 — days reach only 5.8°C, 18° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -10.9°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

55.8° / -10.9°

Feb

88.5° / -7.9°

Mar

2812.8° / -4°

Apr

5117.5° / -0.5°

May

7623.2° / 3.9°

Jun

7228.5° / 8.4°

Jul

6830.7° / 11.4°

Aug

6928.8° / 10.9°

Sep

7925.4° / 6.8°

Oct

5719.4° / 0.2°

Nov

2311.9° / -5.7°

Dec

55.9° / -10.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Taos — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	5.8°C	-10.9°C	15 mm	2.8	9 h 56	5	Good coverage
February	8.5°C	-7.9°C	11 mm	2.7	10 h 48	8	Good coverage
March	12.8°C	-4°C	18 mm	3.3	11 h 51	28	Good coverage
April	17.5°C	-0.5°C	19 mm	2.9	13 h 04	51	Good coverage
May	23.2°C	3.9°C	28 mm	4.2	14 h 05	76	Good coverage
June	28.5°C	8.4°C	25 mm	4.1	14 h 38	72	Good coverage
July	30.7°C	11.4°C	41 mm	5.6	14 h 25	68	Good coverage
August	28.8°C	10.9°C	53 mm	8.3	13 h 33	69	Good coverage
September	25.4°C	6.8°C	36 mm	4.9	12 h 22	79	Good coverage
October	19.4°C	0.2°C	27 mm	4.1	11 h 12	57	Good coverage
November	11.9°C	-5.7°C	19 mm	3.2	10 h 11	23	Good coverage
December	5.9°C	-10.7°C	20 mm	3.1	9 h 41	5	Good coverage

Records at TAOS, 1892–2016
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	18.9°C7 Jan 2006	-32.8°C6 Jan 1971	41 mm15 Jan 1908	86 mm1916 · driest 0 mm in 2003	110
February	22.8°C27 Feb 1932	-32.8°C8 Feb 1933	28 mm18 Feb 1955	53 mm1905 · driest 0 mm in 2009	108
March	26.7°C19 Mar 1907	-23.9°C1 Mar 1929	25 mm21 Mar 1904	76 mm1912 · driest 0 mm in 1934	110
April	27.8°C30 Apr 1928	-17.8°C14 Apr 1933	39 mm22 Apr 1909	110 mm1942 · driest 0 mm in 2008	109
May	37.2°C27 May 2006	-10.6°C6 May 1917	74 mm18 May 1955	113 mm1935 · driest 0 mm in 1939	105
June	36.7°C23 Jun 1902	-2.2°C7 Jun 1954	56 mm27 Jun 2000	92 mm1966 · driest 0 mm in 1902	107
July	38.3°C28 Jul 1894	1.1°C4 Jul 1903	64 mm12 Jul 2000	111 mm1930 · driest 6 mm in 1942	109
August	37.2°C1 Aug 1938	2.2°C21 Aug 1964	46 mm14 Aug 1993	156 mm1993 · driest 6 mm in 1962	111
September	35.0°C15 Sep 1895	-5.6°C29 Sep 1936	41 mm29 Sep 1904	86 mm1931 · driest 0 mm in 1956	111
October	31.7°C1 Oct 1908	-17.8°C22 Oct 1996	36 mm14 Oct 1944	83 mm1916 · driest 0 mm in 1893	110
November	28.3°C2 Nov 1931	-29.4°C29 Nov 1976	41 mm11 Nov 1902	65 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 1932	109
December	19.4°C2 Dec 1903	-32.8°C24 Dec 1990	28 mm26 Dec 1944	76 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1950	111

Typical days per month at TAOS, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	27	<1	2
February	0	0	25	<1	2
March	0	0	26	<1	1
April	1	0	16	<1	1
May	12	2	4	<1	0
June	25	11	<1	<1	0
July	28	19	0	1	0
August	27	12	0	2	0
September	18	2	1	1	0
October	4	0	14	<1	<1
November	<1	0	25	<1	1
December	0	0	27	<1	3

How often, not how much — every day in TAOS’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%	5%	1.9–7.7°C
February	<1%	12%	1%	7%	4.8–11.1°C
March	5%	13%	1%	7%	9.4–14.9°C
April	34%	13%	2%	10%	14.7–20.2°C
May	68%	15%	3%	14%	19.7–24.9°C
June	87%	13%	2%	10%	25.6–30.2°C
July	76%	24%	4%	28%	28.1–31.6°C
August	73%	26%	5%	25%	26.9–30.8°C
September	79%	16%	3%	13%	23.0–27.3°C
October	48%	12%	3%	9%	16.4–21.7°C
November	4%	11%	2%	6%	8.7–14.6°C
December	0%	10%	1%	6%	2.6–8.5°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.

1893Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 94-year average. Warmest: 1910. Coolest: 1979.2007

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5493811
NOAA station: USC00298668 · TAOS
Station distance: 2.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 15 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 36.41°, 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 TAOS is what differs

Ranchos de Taos→Arroyo Seco→Taos Pueblo→Talpa→Arroyo Hondo→Pilar→

Or put two places side by side: Taos vs Ranchos de Taos

Best time to visitTaos.