United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Walker Lake.

May leads for comfortable weather in Walker Lake: typically 25.1°C by day, 8.4°C at night, with 16 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high25.1°C

Typical low8.4°C

Rain in May16 mm

Comfort

May

May · October · September

85climate match

Beach

June

June · September · August

73climate match

Outdoors

April

April · October · May

89climate match

The weakest month is December, scoring 15 against May’s 85 — days reach only 8.5°C, 15° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -3.7°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

189.4° / -3.6°

Feb

3112.2° / -1.6°

Mar

5317.1° / 1.5°

Apr

6619.7° / 3.9°

May

8525.1° / 8.4°

Jun

7430.8° / 13.2°

Jul

5835.4° / 17.3°

Aug

6334.5° / 16.3°

Sep

7629.7° / 11.8°

Oct

7722.2° / 5.3°

Nov

4014.3° / -0.3°

Dec

158.5° / -3.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Walker Lake — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	9.4°C	-3.6°C	9 mm	2.2	9 h 44	18	Strong coverage
February	12.2°C	-1.6°C	9 mm	1.8	10 h 41	31	Strong coverage
March	17.1°C	1.5°C	9 mm	1.7	11 h 50	53	Strong coverage
April	19.7°C	3.9°C	9 mm	1.7	13 h 09	66	Strong coverage
May	25.1°C	8.4°C	16 mm	2.2	14 h 15	85	Strong coverage
June	30.8°C	13.2°C	7 mm	1.2	14 h 51	74	Strong coverage
July	35.4°C	17.3°C	8 mm	1.7	14 h 37	58	Strong coverage
August	34.5°C	16.3°C	5 mm	0.9	13 h 40	63	Strong coverage
September	29.7°C	11.8°C	3 mm	0.6	12 h 23	76	Strong coverage
October	22.2°C	5.3°C	6 mm	1.2	11 h 07	77	Strong coverage
November	14.3°C	-0.3°C	8 mm	1.4	10 h 01	40	Good coverage
December	8.5°C	-3.7°C	7 mm	1.7	9 h 29	15	Strong coverage

Records at HAWTHORNE, 1954–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	22.8°C31 Jan 2003	-19.4°C12 Jan 1963	29 mm4 Jan 2008	63 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 2022	37
February	25.0°C24 Feb 2026	-16.7°C27 Feb 1962	27 mm7 Feb 2017	57 mm1962 · driest 0 mm in 2007	38
March	31.1°C20 Mar 2026	-10.0°C21 Mar 1955	28 mm13 Mar 1996	44 mm1996 · driest 0 mm in 2009	38
April	34.4°C30 Apr 2021	-8.9°C1 Apr 1955	19 mm1 Apr 1998	41 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 1962	37
May	38.3°C31 May 2025	-3.9°C3 May 1964	34 mm7 May 2017	55 mm1962 · driest 0 mm in 1999	37
June	40.6°C28 Jun 2021	1.1°C6 Jun 1993	29 mm3 Jun 1998	43 mm1963 · driest 0 mm in 2017	38
July	43.3°C16 Jul 2023	6.7°C1 Jul 1997	19 mm2 Jul 2025	29 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 2020	36
August	40.6°C12 Aug 2025	6.1°C25 Aug 2024	21 mm23 Aug 2009	30 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 2021	39
September	40.6°C6 Sep 2022	2.2°C21 Sep 2004	29 mm9 Sep 1961	39 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 2010	37
October	33.9°C5 Oct 1964	-9.4°C30 Oct 2019	18 mm1 Oct 2023	32 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 1997	37
November	26.7°C1 Nov 2005	-14.4°C28 Nov 2004	14 mm12 Nov 1993	38 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 2012	35
December	24.4°C19 Dec 2025	-18.9°C23 Dec 1998	18 mm23 Dec 2021	45 mm2021 · driest 0 mm in 1954	36

Typical days per month at HAWTHORNE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	0	23	<1
February	0	0	18	<1
March	1	0	11	<1
April	5	<1	5	<1
May	15	6	<1	<1
June	23	18	0	<1
July	28	27	0	<1
August	28	27	0	<1
September	23	15	0	<1
October	9	2	3	<1
November	<1	0	14	<1
December	0	0	23	<1

How often, not how much — every day in HAWTHORNE’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	<1%	8%	<1%	4%	5.5–11.9°C
February	7%	8%	<1%	4%	9.3–15.1°C
March	31%	6%	<1%	2%	14.1–19.6°C
April	54%	6%	<1%	2%	17.3–21.5°C
May	78%	8%	1%	5%	21.7–27.6°C
June	93%	5%	<1%	3%	27.5–33.6°C
July	95%	5%	<1%	1%	34.0–37.3°C
August	96%	4%	<1%	2%	33.3–35.7°C
September	95%	3%	<1%	1%	27.8–31.1°C
October	71%	4%	<1%	<1%	19.8–25.1°C
November	18%	5%	<1%	2%	11.5–16.5°C
December	2%	5%	<1%	2%	6.8–11.9°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.

1962Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 25-year average. Warmest: 2025. Coolest: 2011.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5514506
NOAA station: USC00263512 · HAWTHORNE
Station distance: 18.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 38.65°, 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 HAWTHORNE is what differs

Hawthorne→Avalon→Babbitt→Bovard (historical)→Copper Hill (historical)→Copperfield (historical)→

Or put two places side by side: Walker Lake vs Hawthorne

Best time to visitWalker Lake.

May

June

April

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Walker Lake.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.