United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Arrowhead Estates.

September leads for comfortable weather in Arrowhead Estates: typically 23.5°C by day, 10.6°C at night, with 38 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high23.5°C

Typical low10.6°C

Rain in September38 mm

Comfort

September

September · June · August

88climate match

Beach

July

July · August · September

76climate match

Outdoors

September

September · October · May

86climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 88 — days reach only 2.8°C, 21° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -8.6°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

52.8° / -8.6°

Feb

53.1° / -8.1°

Mar

138.3° / -3.7°

Apr

3213° / 1.2°

May

4918° / 6.8°

Jun

8024.8° / 12.6°

Jul

6929.7° / 16.7°

Aug

7828.6° / 15.6°

Sep

8823.5° / 10.6°

Oct

4715° / 3.3°

Nov

188.7° / -2.6°

Dec

53° / -7.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Arrowhead Estates — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	2.8°C	-8.6°C	8 mm	2.7	9 h 13	5	Strong coverage
February	3.1°C	-8.1°C	13 mm	3.2	10 h 24	5	Strong coverage
March	8.3°C	-3.7°C	24 mm	4.8	11 h 47	13	Strong coverage
April	13°C	1.2°C	55 mm	7.8	13 h 23	32	Strong coverage
May	18°C	6.8°C	105 mm	10.2	14 h 43	49	Good coverage
June	24.8°C	12.6°C	84 mm	10.1	15 h 28	80	Good coverage
July	29.7°C	16.7°C	64 mm	8.1	15 h 10	69	Strong coverage
August	28.6°C	15.6°C	57 mm	6.5	14 h 00	78	Strong coverage
September	23.5°C	10.6°C	38 mm	4.8	12 h 27	88	Strong coverage
October	15°C	3.3°C	37 mm	5.1	10 h 55	47	Strong coverage
November	8.7°C	-2.6°C	12 mm	2.3	9 h 34	18	Strong coverage
December	3°C	-7.6°C	9 mm	2.4	8 h 54	5	Strong coverage

Records at RAPID CITY WFO, 1996–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	22.8°C8 Jan 2002	-30.6°C13 Jan 2024	8 mm3 Jan 1996	24 mm2023 · driest 2 mm in 2002	31
February	22.8°C4 Feb 2005	-30.6°C2 Feb 1996	18 mm3 Feb 1997	39 mm2020 · driest 1 mm in 1999	31
March	29.4°C21 Mar 2026	-26.7°C2 Mar 2014	25 mm16 Mar 2018	57 mm1998 · driest 2 mm in 2012	31
April	32.8°C22 Apr 2026	-15.6°C3 Apr 2020	41 mm6 Apr 2024	120 mm2000 · driest 15 mm in 2004	31
May	35.0°C11 May 2025	-3.9°C2 May 2019	77 mm22 May 2008	247 mm2008 · driest 36 mm in 2017	30
June	41.1°C26 Jun 2012	-0.6°C3 Jun 1998	59 mm2 Jun 1997	185 mm2018 · driest 15 mm in 2016	30
July	43.3°C25 Jul 2026	8.3°C1 Jul 2001	56 mm24 Jul 2022	165 mm2019 · driest 11 mm in 2003	31
August	41.1°C29 Aug 2012	7.2°C17 Aug 2002	51 mm13 Aug 1997	121 mm2014 · driest 10 mm in 2012	30
September	38.9°C5 Sep 2020	-1.7°C23 Sep 2000	66 mm29 Sep 2014	123 mm2014 · driest 1 mm in 2012	30
October	34.4°C2 Oct 2011	-15.6°C26 Oct 2020	67 mm12 Oct 2023	149 mm1998 · driest 2 mm in 1999	30
November	28.3°C7 Nov 1999	-22.2°C23 Nov 2010	24 mm30 Nov 2019	42 mm2019 · driest 1 mm in 2004	30
December	23.3°C2 Dec 2021	-28.3°C15 Dec 2008	15 mm1 Dec 2018	31 mm2018 · driest 1 mm in 2001	30

Typical days per month at RAPID CITY WFO, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	27	0	7
February	0	0	25	<1	7
March	<1	0	23	<1	6
April	2	<1	12	2	4
May	5	<1	2	3	<1
June	15	6	<1	3	<1
July	27	15	0	2	0
August	25	13	0	2	0
September	14	5	<1	1	<1
October	3	<1	8	<1	2
November	<1	0	20	<1	4
December	0	0	27	<1	6

How often, not how much — every day in RAPID CITY WFO’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%	9%	0%	3%	0.1–5.6°C
February	2%	12%	<1%	7%	-2.7–7.8°C
March	9%	16%	2%	17%	2.5–13.1°C
April	17%	26%	6%	30%	10.4–15.3°C
May	33%	32%	8%	46%	15.7–20.4°C
June	61%	32%	9%	40%	22.4–27.9°C
July	73%	27%	6%	29%	27.3–32.9°C
August	79%	21%	5%	16%	26.8–30.7°C
September	69%	17%	3%	14%	21.8–26.7°C
October	29%	16%	3%	10%	11.3–18.4°C
November	9%	7%	<1%	2%	4.8–12.9°C
December	1%	8%	<1%	2%	-1.1–7.6°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.

1996Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 28-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 1996.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5762472
NOAA station: USC00396948 · RAPID CITY WFO
Station distance: 6.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 44.04°, 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 RAPID CITY WFO is what differs

Rapid City→Rapid Valley→Colonial Pine Hills→Ashland Heights→Broadmoor Subdivision→Clarkson Addition→

Or put two places side by side: Arrowhead Estates vs Rapid City

Best time to visitArrowhead Estates.

September

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September

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Arrowhead Estates.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.