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Best time to visit
Fort Smith.

July leads for comfortable weather in Fort Smith: typically 23.7°C by day, 10.9°C at night, with 54 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high23.7°C

Typical low10.9°C

Rain in July54 mm

Comfort

July

July · June · August

84climate match

Beach

July

July · June · August

47climate match

Outdoors

June

June · August · July

87climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 84 — days reach only -17°C, 41° 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

5-17° / -25.3°

Feb

5-13.6° / -24.4°

Mar

5-5.3° / -18.4°

Apr

55.4° / -7.2°

May

4615.3° / 1.6°

Jun

7621.7° / 8.3°

Jul

8423.7° / 10.9°

Aug

7221° / 9°

Sep

4514.4° / 3.4°

Oct

54.8° / -2.7°

Nov

5-7.2° / -14.1°

Dec

5-14.8° / -22.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Fort Smith — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-17°C	-25.3°C	23 mm	7.4	6 h 39	5	Good coverage
February	-13.6°C	-24.4°C	14 mm	4.8	9 h 00	5	Good coverage
March	-5.3°C	-18.4°C	16 mm	5.8	11 h 33	5	Good coverage
April	5.4°C	-7.2°C	13 mm	3.6	14 h 26	5	Good coverage
May	15.3°C	1.6°C	23 mm	4.5	17 h 05	46	Good coverage
June	21.7°C	8.3°C	41 mm	6.5	18 h 48	76	Good coverage
July	23.7°C	10.9°C	54 mm	8.2	18 h 05	84	Good coverage
August	21°C	9°C	61 mm	7.5	15 h 38	72	Good coverage
September	14.4°C	3.4°C	35 mm	5.4	12 h 46	45	Good coverage
October	4.8°C	-2.7°C	26 mm	6	9 h 59	5	Good coverage
November	-7.2°C	-14.1°C	20 mm	6.9	7 h 23	5	Good coverage
December	-14.8°C	-22.5°C	18 mm	6.2	5 h 55	5	Good coverage

Records at FORT SMITH CLIMATE, 2003–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	4.1°C15 Jan 2026	-45.1°C12 Jan 2024	16 mm21 Jan 2020	41 mm2019 · driest 7 mm in 2011	23
February	9.9°C16 Feb 2017	-44.5°C7 Feb 2021	12 mm22 Feb 2022	30 mm2018 · driest 5 mm in 2010	23
March	16.7°C19 Mar 2019	-41.7°C9 Mar 2009	6 mm9 Mar 2014	28 mm2017 · driest 1 mm in 2010	21
April	23.7°C21 Apr 2010	-30.5°C3 Apr 2014	13 mm8 Apr 2021	30 mm2021 · driest 3 mm in 2011	23
May	33.2°C29 May 2025	-17.3°C1 May 2019	30 mm8 May 2016	56 mm2014 · driest 2 mm in 2011	23
June	33.7°C27 Jun 2006	-3.1°C5 Jun 2011	36 mm16 Jun 2005	117 mm2009 · driest 1 mm in 2007	23
July	35.8°C10 Jul 2012	-0.6°C10 Jul 2009	54 mm12 Jul 2013	90 mm2020 · driest 7 mm in 2023	23
August	35.0°C30 Aug 2025	-1.6°C30 Aug 2007	76 mm6 Aug 2014	116 mm2020 · driest 5 mm in 2023	23
September	30.1°C3 Sep 2022	-7.9°C19 Sep 2018	45 mm11 Sep 2012	84 mm2008 · driest 0 mm in 2023	23
October	23.8°C3 Oct 2003	-18.3°C25 Oct 2004	16 mm20 Oct 2015	62 mm2015 · driest 5 mm in 2021	23
November	12.9°C19 Nov 2005	-35.6°C27 Nov 2006	9 mm4 Nov 2008	40 mm2020 · driest 2 mm in 2010	23
December	7.9°C13 Dec 2023	-41.4°C31 Dec 2013	10 mm11 Dec 2014	40 mm2017 · driest 8 mm in 2003	23

Typical days per month at FORT SMITH CLIMATE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	31	<1	4
February	0	0	27	0	3
March	0	0	30	0	4
April	0	0	26	<1	2
May	3	<1	11	<1	<1
June	9	<1	1	1	0
July	12	2	<1	1	0
August	7	<1	<1	2	0
September	<1	0	7	<1	0
October	0	0	23	<1	3
November	0	0	29	0	4
December	0	0	31	0	3

How often, not how much — every day in FORT SMITH CLIMATE’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%	24%	<1%	26%	-20.0–-12.2°C
February	0%	17%	<1%	14%	-18.3–-9.4°C
March	0%	16%	0%	11%	-9.0–-1.7°C
April	2%	13%	<1%	7%	2.1–8.6°C
May	24%	15%	2%	13%	11.8–18.1°C
June	56%	21%	4%	27%	20.1–23.5°C
July	66%	25%	5%	26%	22.0–25.8°C
August	53%	22%	6%	18%	18.3–24.3°C
September	17%	18%	3%	16%	12.0–18.6°C
October	<1%	19%	<1%	19%	2.2–7.6°C
November	0%	23%	0%	19%	-10.5–-3.4°C
December	0%	21%	0%	17%	-22.1–-7.7°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.

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5955954
NOAA station: CA002202202 · FORT SMITH CLIMATE
Station distance: 4.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 15 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 60.00°, 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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Fort Smith.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.