United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Moab.

October leads for comfortable weather in Moab: typically 23.5°C by day, 5.3°C at night, with 26 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high23.5°C

Typical low5.3°C

Rain in October26 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

80climate match

Beach

August

August · May · July

69climate match

Outdoors

April

April · March · October

83climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against October’s 80 — days reach only 6.9°C, 17° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -6°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

56.9° / -6°

Feb

2611.5° / -2.8°

Mar

5818.6° / 2.1°

Apr

7922.8° / 5.8°

May

7628.7° / 10.4°

Jun

6434.9° / 15°

Jul

4737.8° / 19.1°

Aug

5436.1° / 17.9°

Sep

7031.5° / 12.6°

Oct

8023.5° / 5.3°

Nov

3914.4° / -1.1°

Dec

67° / -5.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Moab — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	6.9°C	-6°C	16 mm	3.6	9 h 45	5	Strong coverage
February	11.5°C	-2.8°C	16 mm	4	10 h 42	26	Strong coverage
March	18.6°C	2.1°C	18 mm	3.7	11 h 50	58	Strong coverage
April	22.8°C	5.8°C	19 mm	3.8	13 h 09	79	Strong coverage
May	28.7°C	10.4°C	21 mm	3.8	14 h 15	76	Strong coverage
June	34.9°C	15°C	10 mm	1.8	14 h 51	64	Strong coverage
July	37.8°C	19.1°C	23 mm	3.4	14 h 37	47	Strong coverage
August	36.1°C	17.9°C	23 mm	4.2	13 h 40	54	Strong coverage
September	31.5°C	12.6°C	24 mm	3.6	12 h 23	70	Strong coverage
October	23.5°C	5.3°C	26 mm	4.1	11 h 07	80	Strong coverage
November	14.4°C	-1.1°C	17 mm	3	10 h 01	39	Strong coverage
December	7°C	-5.6°C	19 mm	3.7	9 h 29	6	Strong coverage

What has changed

Moab runs +0.2°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

+0.7

Feb

+0.5

Mar

+1.1

Apr

+0.4

May

-0.4

Jun

+1.1

Jul

-0.1

Aug

-0.3

Sep

+0.9

Oct

-0.8

Nov

-0.1

Dec

-0.5

October daytime highs, 2011–2023. Last recorded: 22.1°C.

Records at MOAB, 1893–2024
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	19.4°C31 Jan 1986	-31.1°C22 Jan 1930	32 mm21 Jan 1917	68 mm1916 · driest 0 mm in 1992	130
February	25.6°C24 Feb 1904	-25.0°C13 Feb 1905	31 mm28 Feb 1927	64 mm1927 · driest 0 mm in 1896	128
March	31.1°C25 Mar 1896	-13.3°C17 Mar 1917	27 mm26 Mar 1910	81 mm1975 · driest 0 mm in 1934	129
April	35.6°C27 Apr 1992	-9.4°C8 Apr 1928	53 mm9 Apr 1978	71 mm1917 · driest 0 mm in 1939	130
May	42.8°C31 May 1910	-2.8°C1 May 1909	47 mm27 May 1926	67 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 2012	130
June	45.0°C17 Jun 1936	2.2°C21 Jun 1995	38 mm24 Jun 1969	60 mm1927 · driest 0 mm in 1916	130
July	45.6°C7 Jul 1989	6.1°C6 Jul 1902	70 mm23 Jul 1983	170 mm1918 · driest 0 mm in 1939	130
August	43.3°C9 Aug 1990	4.4°C27 Aug 1931	38 mm28 Aug 1939	67 mm1947 · driest 0 mm in 1962	130
September	42.2°C6 Sep 1976	-2.2°C27 Sep 1934	101 mm23 Sep 1896	152 mm1896 · driest 0 mm in 1944	129
October	36.7°C5 Oct 1999	-10.6°C31 Oct 2019	50 mm5 Oct 1911	118 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 2019	128
November	27.8°C7 Nov 1898	-16.7°C24 Nov 1931	31 mm22 Nov 1902	61 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1932	127
December	20.6°C4 Dec 1995	-28.3°C27 Dec 1924	28 mm30 Dec 1915	62 mm1915 · driest 0 mm in 1958	129

Typical days per month at MOAB, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	28	<1	1
February	0	0	21	<1	<1
March	3	0	11	<1	<1
April	12	2	3	<1	0
May	24	14	0	<1	0
June	28	25	0	<1	0
July	31	30	0	<1	0
August	30	30	0	<1	0
September	27	21	<1	<1	0
October	13	3	4	<1	<1
November	<1	0	20	<1	<1
December	0	0	28	<1	2

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was October (scoring 81); on 2011–2025 it is May (80). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in MOAB’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%	12%	1%	7%	1.2–9.5°C
February	3%	13%	1%	8%	7.1–14.0°C
March	30%	14%	2%	8%	14.1–20.4°C
April	65%	13%	2%	9%	19.5–25.0°C
May	85%	11%	2%	8%	25.2–30.3°C
June	93%	7%	1%	3%	31.5–36.4°C
July	88%	12%	2%	6%	34.7–38.7°C
August	86%	14%	2%	8%	33.1–37.3°C
September	87%	12%	3%	7%	28.0–32.9°C
October	69%	13%	3%	9%	20.1–26.2°C
November	13%	11%	2%	6%	11.1–16.4°C
December	<1%	12%	2%	6%	3.6–9.7°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 112-year average. Warmest: 1992. Coolest: 1903.2023

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5543307
NOAA station: USC00425733 · MOAB
Station distance: 0.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 38.57°, 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.

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