United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Hershey.

September leads for comfortable weather in Hershey: typically 26°C by day, 9.4°C at night, with 41 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high26°C

Typical low9.4°C

Rain in September41 mm

Comfort

September

September · August · June

81climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

73climate match

Outdoors

October

October · September · May

78climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 81 — days reach only 3.7°C, 20° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -9.8°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

53.7° / -9.8°

Feb

55.5° / -8.7°

Mar

2411.4° / -4.3°

Apr

4416.4° / 0.6°

May

6721.8° / 6.8°

Jun

7028.1° / 12.8°

Jul

6631.2° / 15.8°

Aug

7430.2° / 14.7°

Sep

8126° / 9.4°

Oct

5618.5° / 2°

Nov

2110.7° / -4.6°

Dec

54.6° / -9.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Hershey — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	3.7°C	-9.8°C	6 mm	1.4	9 h 31	5	Strong coverage
February	5.5°C	-8.7°C	10 mm	2.5	10 h 33	5	Strong coverage
March	11.4°C	-4.3°C	24 mm	3.2	11 h 48	24	Strong coverage
April	16.4°C	0.6°C	51 mm	5.9	13 h 15	44	Strong coverage
May	21.8°C	6.8°C	79 mm	8.4	14 h 28	67	Strong coverage
June	28.1°C	12.8°C	89 mm	8.2	15 h 07	70	Good coverage
July	31.2°C	15.8°C	73 mm	7.2	14 h 52	66	Strong coverage
August	30.2°C	14.7°C	54 mm	5.1	13 h 49	74	Strong coverage
September	26°C	9.4°C	41 mm	4.5	12 h 25	81	Strong coverage
October	18.5°C	2°C	47 mm	4.2	11 h 02	56	Strong coverage
November	10.7°C	-4.6°C	9 mm	2	9 h 49	21	Strong coverage
December	4.6°C	-9.2°C	8 mm	1.5	9 h 13	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Hershey runs +0.4°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

+1.3

Feb

-1.8

Mar

+1.1

Apr

-1.1

May

-1.1

Jun

+0.7

Jul

+0.1

Aug

-0.2

Sep

+2.2

Oct

-0.4

Nov

+1.6

Dec

+1.8

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 26.2°C.

Records at HERSHEY 5 SSE, 1965–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	23.3°C28 Jan 2015	-30.6°C1 Jan 1979	24 mm1 Jan 1976	104 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 2019	57
February	26.7°C3 Feb 2020	-32.8°C16 Feb 2021	35 mm19 Feb 1971	42 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 1996	59
March	33.9°C22 Mar 2026	-26.1°C4 Mar 1978	60 mm14 Mar 2021	91 mm1992 · driest 1 mm in 2015	57
April	35.0°C23 Apr 1989	-15.0°C8 Apr 2018	56 mm17 Apr 2016	127 mm1977 · driest 2 mm in 2023	57
May	37.8°C28 May 2006	-5.0°C2 May 1989	62 mm30 May 1977	161 mm2018 · driest 11 mm in 2006	57
June	43.3°C27 Jun 1990	-2.2°C3 Jun 1998	87 mm21 Jun 2011	258 mm2025 · driest 12 mm in 2017	53
July	43.3°C3 Jul 1990	5.6°C1 Jul 1968	78 mm4 Jul 1965	216 mm1965 · driest 16 mm in 2002	56
August	42.8°C1 Aug 2002	5.0°C28 Aug 1976	55 mm29 Aug 1999	161 mm1999 · driest 1 mm in 1975	57
September	40.0°C7 Sep 2013	-5.6°C29 Sep 1984	56 mm7 Sep 1996	134 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 1992	57
October	34.4°C12 Oct 2015	-16.7°C28 Oct 2020	105 mm4 Oct 2016	158 mm2008 · driest 0 mm in 1966	58
November	30.0°C7 Nov 1980	-21.7°C28 Nov 1976	27 mm3 Nov 1998	51 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 1989	55
December	23.9°C18 Dec 1980	-35.0°C22 Dec 1983	27 mm22 Dec 1968	42 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 1988	58

Typical days per month at HERSHEY 5 SSE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	31	<1	3
February	0	0	27	<1	3
March	1	<1	25	<1	2
April	4	<1	13	2	2
May	11	3	2	3	0
June	23	11	0	3	0
July	28	19	0	3	0
August	28	17	0	2	0
September	18	9	<1	1	0
October	7	2	10	1	<1
November	<1	0	26	<1	2
December	0	0	30	<1	3

How often, not how much — every day in HERSHEY 5 SSE’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%	6%	<1%	1%	-1.6–7.0°C
February	4%	9%	<1%	4%	0.1–10.5°C
March	16%	12%	3%	8%	7.3–15.7°C
April	33%	19%	6%	17%	13.8–19.8°C
May	52%	27%	9%	31%	19.7–24.5°C
June	73%	25%	10%	27%	25.6–30.7°C
July	76%	23%	8%	21%	29.4–33.4°C
August	83%	16%	5%	11%	28.3–32.9°C
September	75%	15%	5%	12%	23.6–28.9°C
October	45%	11%	3%	6%	16.0–21.6°C
November	13%	8%	1%	3%	6.3–14.1°C
December	1%	6%	<1%	2%	0.2–8.6°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.

1967Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 44-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 1993.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5696121
NOAA station: USC00253810 · HERSHEY 5 SSE
Station distance: 6.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 41.16°, 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 HERSHEY 5 SSE is what differs

Sutherland→Sarben→Birdwood→Coker→O'Fallons→

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