May
May · September · June
79climate match
United States · 1991–2020
Best time to visit
Independence.
May leads for comfortable weather in Independence: typically 24°C by day, 4.1°C at night, with 22 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.
Best comfortMay
Typical high24°C
Typical low4.1°C
Rain in May22 mm
August
August · June · July
60climate match
October
October · April · May
77climate match
The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against May’s 79 — days reach only -0.9°C, 25° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -15.9°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
5-0.9° / -15.9°
Feb
54.2° / -11.2°
Mar
2913.3° / -4.9°
Apr
5318.6° / -0.9°
May
7924° / 4.1°
Jun
6630.3° / 7.8°
Jul
6133.9° / 11.6°
Aug
6332.4° / 10.5°
Sep
7227.1° / 5.6°
Oct
5418.9° / -0.6°
Nov
129.3° / -7.2°
Dec
50.7° / -13.6°
| Month | Day | Night | Rain | Wet days | Daylight | Comfort | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.9°C | -15.9°C | 12 mm | 2.9 | 9 h 36 | 5 | Strong coverage |
| February | 4.2°C | -11.2°C | 10 mm | 2.8 | 10 h 36 | 5 | Strong coverage |
| March | 13.3°C | -4.9°C | 14 mm | 2.6 | 11 h 49 | 29 | Strong coverage |
| April | 18.6°C | -0.9°C | 19 mm | 3.7 | 13 h 13 | 53 | Strong coverage |
| May | 24°C | 4.1°C | 22 mm | 4.1 | 14 h 23 | 79 | Strong coverage |
| June | 30.3°C | 7.8°C | 11 mm | 2.3 | 15 h 01 | 66 | Strong coverage |
| July | 33.9°C | 11.6°C | 11 mm | 2.8 | 14 h 46 | 61 | Strong coverage |
| August | 32.4°C | 10.5°C | 16 mm | 4 | 13 h 46 | 63 | Strong coverage |
| September | 27.1°C | 5.6°C | 27 mm | 4.4 | 12 h 24 | 72 | Strong coverage |
| October | 18.9°C | -0.6°C | 22 mm | 4.2 | 11 h 04 | 54 | Strong coverage |
| November | 9.3°C | -7.2°C | 8 mm | 2.3 | 9 h 53 | 12 | Strong coverage |
| December | 0.7°C | -13.6°C | 14 mm | 3.3 | 9 h 19 | 5 | Strong coverage |
What has changed
Independence runs +1.2°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
+1.0
Feb
+1.2
Mar
+1.7
Apr
+1.0
May
+0.2
Jun
+2.3
Jul
+1.4
Aug
+1.1
Sep
+1.8
Oct
+0.2
Nov
+1.1
Dec
+0.9
| Month | Record high | Record low | Wettest day | Wettest / driest month | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15.6°C31 Jan 1971 | -37.2°C15 Jan 2007 | 38 mm18 Jan 1988 | 48 mm1988 · driest 0 mm in 1961 | 76 |
| February | 20.0°C28 Feb 1972 | -43.9°C6 Feb 1989 | 16 mm18 Feb 1980 | 35 mm1962 · driest 0 mm in 1974 | 75 |
| March | 26.7°C28 Mar 2015 | -23.3°C1 Mar 1962 | 23 mm29 Mar 1979 | 43 mm1979 · driest 0 mm in 2009 | 74 |
| April | 31.1°C29 Apr 1985 | -13.3°C5 Apr 1994 | 22 mm27 Apr 1994 | 56 mm2013 · driest 0 mm in 1992 | 74 |
| May | 37.2°C31 May 2002 | -7.8°C1 May 1972 | 21 mm20 May 1975 | 73 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 2002 | 75 |
| June | 40.0°C16 Jun 2021 | -2.8°C10 Jun 2002 | 37 mm16 Jun 1969 | 98 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 2012 | 76 |
| July | 40.6°C26 Jul 1960 | 2.8°C2 Jul 1997 | 24 mm29 Jul 1987 | 55 mm1987 · driest 0 mm in 2024 | 76 |
| August | 40.6°C12 Aug 1958 | 0.0°C31 Aug 2005 | 48 mm25 Aug 1955 | 74 mm1955 · driest 0 mm in 1985 | 77 |
| September | 37.2°C6 Sep 2020 | -6.1°C18 Sep 1965 | 60 mm22 Sep 2016 | 98 mm1954 · driest 0 mm in 1979 | 75 |
| October | 30.6°C2 Oct 2015 | -20.0°C30 Oct 2019 | 28 mm3 Oct 1994 | 79 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 1950 | 74 |
| November | 22.8°C1 Nov 2014 | -22.8°C23 Nov 2003 | 25 mm3 Nov 1957 | 57 mm1957 · driest 0 mm in 1959 | 76 |
| December | 17.2°C5 Dec 1958 | -40.0°C22 Dec 1990 | 34 mm30 Dec 1951 | 67 mm1951 · driest 0 mm in 1989 | 76 |
| Month | Days 25°C+ | Days 30°C+ | Frost nights | Heavy rain (10 mm+) | Snow days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 0 | 31 | <1 | 3 |
| February | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 2 |
| March | <1 | 0 | 27 | <1 | <1 |
| April | 3 | <1 | 19 | <1 | <1 |
| May | 15 | 3 | 4 | <1 | 0 |
| June | 26 | 18 | <1 | <1 | 0 |
| July | 30 | 28 | 0 | <1 | 0 |
| August | 30 | 26 | <1 | <1 | 0 |
| September | 22 | 9 | 3 | <1 | 0 |
| October | 5 | <1 | 19 | <1 | <1 |
| November | 0 | 0 | 28 | <1 | <1 |
| December | 0 | 0 | 31 | <1 | 3 |
| Month | Warm & dry days | Wet days | Washouts | Week with 3+ wet days | Daytime mean has ranged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0% | 10% | <1% | 7% | -7.4–4.8°C |
| February | 0% | 10% | <1% | 6% | -2.9–9.4°C |
| March | 8% | 11% | <1% | 6% | 7.5–15.3°C |
| April | 40% | 11% | 1% | 6% | 15.6–21.4°C |
| May | 73% | 12% | 2% | 8% | 20.8–26.2°C |
| June | 90% | 9% | 1% | 6% | 26.3–32.6°C |
| July | 91% | 9% | <1% | 4% | 31.3–35.1°C |
| August | 88% | 12% | 1% | 7% | 30.4–33.5°C |
| September | 82% | 13% | 2% | 9% | 24.8–29.0°C |
| October | 45% | 12% | 2% | 9% | 16.3–22.1°C |
| November | 1% | 9% | <1% | 3% | 6.0–12.3°C |
| December | 0% | 11% | <1% | 7% | -4.6–5.5°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.
The evidence behind this page
Nearby, measured,
and named.
- Place identity
- GeoNames 5776253
- NOAA station
- USC00427395 · ROOSEVELT RADIO
- Station distance
- 4.8 km from the place centre
- Climate period
- 1991–2020
- Minimum month coverage
- 25 usable years
- Daylight
- Calculated from latitude 40.25°, 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.