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Best time to visit
Santa Rita.

July leads for comfortable weather in Santa Rita: typically 26.6°C by day, 9.9°C at night, with 32 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly
Typical high26.6°C
Typical low9.9°C
Rain in July32 mm
Comfort

July

July · August · September

81climate match
Beach

July

July · August · September

60climate match
Outdoors

September

September · June · August

88climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 81 — days reach only 0.1°C, 24° 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
50.1° / -11.2°
Feb
51.2° / -10.9°
Mar
55.8° / -6.8°
Apr
2611.2° / -1.9°
May
5016.8° / 3°
Jun
6721° / 7.2°
Jul
8126.6° / 9.9°
Aug
8126.2° / 9.1°
Sep
6820.3° / 4.8°
Oct
3212.3° / -1°
Nov
54.9° / -6.2°
Dec
50.3° / -10.6°
Monthly climate evidence for Santa Rita — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
MonthDayNightRainWet daysDaylightComfortCoverage
January0.1°C-11.2°C6 mm1.88 h 415Strong coverage
February1.2°C-10.9°C6 mm2.210 h 055Strong coverage
March5.8°C-6.8°C9 mm2.911 h 445Strong coverage
April11.2°C-1.9°C24 mm4.913 h 3726Strong coverage
May16.8°C3°C42 mm6.715 h 1350Strong coverage
June21°C7.2°C69 mm8.116 h 0767Strong coverage
July26.6°C9.9°C32 mm4.615 h 4681Strong coverage
August26.2°C9.1°C25 mm4.314 h 2181Strong coverage
September20.3°C4.8°C28 mm4.412 h 3168Strong coverage
October12.3°C-1°C14 mm3.310 h 4332Strong coverage
November4.9°C-6.2°C10 mm2.69 h 065Strong coverage
December0.3°C-10.6°C7 mm2.18 h 175Strong coverage

What has changed

Santa Rita runs +0.8°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
+3.2
Feb
-2.4
Mar
+0.8
Apr
0.0
May
+0.5
Jun
+0.5
Jul
+1.9
Aug
+1.5
Sep
+2.2
Oct
-1.0
Nov
+1.0
Dec
+2.0
July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.8°C.
Records at CUT BANK AP, 1903–2026
MonthRecord highRecord lowWettest dayWettest / driest monthYears
January19.4°C31 Jan 1962-43.3°C31 Jan 191820 mm5 Jan 192738 mm1909 · driest 0 mm in 1910118
February21.7°C27 Feb 1992-43.9°C15 Feb 193612 mm2 Feb 194729 mm2018 · driest 0 mm in 1912118
March25.0°C30 Mar 2004-36.7°C8 Mar 200221 mm30 Mar 198145 mm1987 · driest 0 mm in 1919118
April30.6°C25 Apr 1910-31.7°C2 Apr 193528 mm29 Apr 192259 mm1978 · driest 0 mm in 1934118
May33.3°C31 May 2025-12.8°C2 May 195452 mm20 May 1981178 mm1927 · driest 5 mm in 1918117
June38.3°C23 Jun 1941-6.1°C4 Jun 191071 mm7 Jun 1924202 mm1991 · driest 6 mm in 2007116
July41.1°C6 Jul 20070.0°C16 Jul 199959 mm25 Jul 1913228 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1919118
August41.7°C5 Aug 1961-3.9°C25 Aug 191060 mm15 Aug 1968126 mm1936 · driest 0 mm in 1917117
September36.1°C1 Sep 1967-20.0°C25 Sep 193452 mm6 Sep 2013105 mm1911 · driest 0 mm in 1932118
October31.1°C1 Oct 1992-25.6°C26 Oct 191936 mm8 Oct 192356 mm1975 · driest 0 mm in 1915118
November26.1°C3 Nov 1962-36.1°C19 Nov 192131 mm13 Nov 193034 mm1978 · driest 0 mm in 1911117
December19.4°C5 Dec 1939-43.3°C18 Dec 192423 mm15 Dec 192437 mm1929 · driest 0 mm in 1908117
Typical days per month at CUT BANK AP, 1991–2020
MonthDays 25°C+Days 30°C+Frost nightsHeavy rain (10 mm+)Snow days
January002802
February002602
March002702
April<1021<11
May3<181<1
June71<120
July2190<10
August209<1<1<1
September824<10
October<1<118<1<1
November0024<11
December002902

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was July (scoring 84); on 2011–2025 it is August (80). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in CUT BANK AP’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
MonthWarm & dry daysWet daysWashoutsWeek with 3+ wet daysDaytime mean has ranged
January0%8%<1%4%-8.4–3.9°C
February<1%9%<1%5%-6.3–6.1°C
March<1%10%<1%6%0.1–8.9°C
April11%14%2%12%8.3–15.7°C
May31%22%4%24%14.4–20.2°C
June53%26%7%28%18.8–24.4°C
July81%16%3%13%24.0–29.5°C
August77%16%3%14%23.0–28.9°C
September50%14%3%10%16.4–23.5°C
October19%10%<1%5%9.6–16.7°C
November1%8%<1%4%0.8–9.2°C
December0%8%<1%5%-5.6–5.1°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.

1909Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 115-year average. Warmest: 1939. Coolest: 1951.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity
GeoNames 5676346
NOAA station
USW00024137 · CUT BANK AP
Station distance
11.6 km from the place centre
Climate period
1991–2020
Minimum month coverage
30 usable years
Daylight
Calculated from latitude 48.70°, 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 CUT BANK AP is what differs

Cut Bank→Little Browning→Edwards Crossing→Ethridge→Family (historical)→Fort Piegan→

Or put two places side by side: Santa Rita vs Cut Bank