United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Rio Communities.

October leads for comfortable weather in Rio Communities: typically 24.2°C by day, 2.7°C at night, with 23 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortOctober

Typical high24.2°C

Typical low2.7°C

Rain in October23 mm

Comfort

October

October · April · May

77climate match

Beach

August

August · July · September

66climate match

Outdoors

March

March · April · October

79climate match

The weakest month is December, scoring 16 against October’s 77 — days reach only 11°C, 13° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -7.7°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

1811.7° / -8°

Feb

3415.2° / -5.5°

Mar

5619.7° / -1.7°

Apr

7623.8° / 2.2°

May

7128.6° / 7.5°

Jun

6234.1° / 12.5°

Jul

5934.9° / 16.2°

Aug

6533.6° / 15°

Sep

6930.4° / 10.2°

Oct

7724.2° / 2.7°

Nov

4317° / -3.8°

Dec

1611° / -7.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Rio Communities — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	11.7°C	-8°C	11 mm	2.5	10 h 04	18	Strong coverage
February	15.2°C	-5.5°C	11 mm	2.3	10 h 53	34	Strong coverage
March	19.7°C	-1.7°C	14 mm	2.5	11 h 52	56	Strong coverage
April	23.8°C	2.2°C	13 mm	2.3	13 h 00	76	Strong coverage
May	28.6°C	7.5°C	11 mm	2.5	13 h 57	71	Strong coverage
June	34.1°C	12.5°C	14 mm	2.4	14 h 28	62	Strong coverage
July	34.9°C	16.2°C	40 mm	5.7	14 h 16	59	Strong coverage
August	33.6°C	15°C	39 mm	6.1	13 h 27	65	Strong coverage
September	30.4°C	10.2°C	29 mm	4.3	12 h 21	69	Strong coverage
October	24.2°C	2.7°C	23 mm	3.4	11 h 15	77	Strong coverage
November	17°C	-3.8°C	14 mm	2.5	10 h 18	43	Strong coverage
December	11°C	-7.7°C	14 mm	2.6	9 h 51	16	Strong coverage

What has changed

Rio Communities runs +1.7°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

+1.1

Feb

+1.3

Mar

+1.7

Apr

+1.4

May

+1.3

Jun

+2.5

Jul

+1.9

Aug

+2.3

Sep

+2.4

Oct

+1.6

Nov

+1.3

Dec

+1.2

October daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.3°C.

Records at LOS LUNAS 3 SSW, 1957–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	23.9°C18 Jan 2000	-31.7°C7 Jan 1971	17 mm31 Jan 1978	37 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1976	69
February	27.2°C24 Feb 2009	-26.1°C4 Feb 2011	36 mm7 Feb 1964	42 mm1964 · driest 0 mm in 1962	69
March	33.9°C26 Mar 2026	-15.6°C4 Mar 2002	42 mm16 Mar 1998	76 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 2012	69
April	33.9°C21 Apr 2011	-8.9°C1 Apr 1980	35 mm25 Apr 1990	78 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 2022	69
May	38.9°C31 May 2000	-6.7°C2 May 1967	24 mm2 May 1978	55 mm1992 · driest 0 mm in 2005	68
June	42.2°C28 Jun 2013	1.7°C4 Jun 1961	41 mm15 Jun 1961	75 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 1975	67
July	41.1°C28 Jul 2026	3.9°C7 Jul 1995	46 mm27 Jul 2013	117 mm2013 · driest 0 mm in 1982	68
August	40.0°C8 Aug 2025	5.0°C24 Aug 1968	61 mm27 Aug 1980	115 mm1993 · driest 0 mm in 1962	69
September	37.8°C1 Sep 2005	-0.6°C19 Sep 2006	56 mm13 Sep 1988	114 mm1988 · driest 1 mm in 1968	69
October	33.9°C9 Oct 1996	-10.0°C31 Oct 2019	42 mm13 Oct 1972	116 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 2023	68
November	28.9°C11 Nov 2006	-26.1°C29 Nov 1976	32 mm16 Nov 1991	60 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 2017	68
December	23.3°C14 Dec 1995	-20.6°C25 Dec 1990	23 mm12 Dec 1991	53 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 1970	68

Typical days per month at LOS LUNAS 3 SSW, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	30	<1	<1
February	<1	0	26	<1	<1
March	5	<1	22	<1	<1
April	15	2	9	<1	0
May	26	13	<1	<1	0
June	30	27	0	<1	0
July	31	29	0	1	0
August	31	28	0	1	0
September	28	18	<1	<1	0
October	16	3	9	<1	<1
November	1	0	26	<1	<1
December	0	0	30	<1	<1

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was September (scoring 77); on 2011–2025 it is April (76). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in LOS LUNAS 3 SSW’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	2%	7%	<1%	3%	8.3–13.9°C
February	15%	8%	<1%	4%	12.3–17.7°C
March	46%	8%	<1%	4%	16.5–21.7°C
April	78%	7%	1%	4%	21.0–25.2°C
May	91%	7%	<1%	5%	26.0–30.2°C
June	91%	9%	1%	5%	31.2–35.7°C
July	83%	17%	3%	17%	32.5–36.1°C
August	81%	19%	4%	14%	31.0–35.0°C
September	85%	15%	3%	10%	27.5–31.4°C
October	77%	11%	3%	9%	21.3–25.8°C
November	27%	8%	1%	5%	13.8–19.1°C
December	2%	8%	1%	3%	8.1–14.1°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.

1958Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 62-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 1964.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 7176031
NOAA station: USC00295150 · LOS LUNAS 3 SSW
Station distance: 13.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 34.65°, 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 LOS LUNAS 3 SSW is what differs

Los Lunas→Belen→Los Chavez→Meadow Lake→El Cerro Mission→Bosque Farms→

Or put two places side by side: Rio Communities vs Los Lunas

Best time to visitRio Communities.

October

August

March

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Rio Communities runs +1.7°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Rio Communities.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Rio Communities runs +1.7°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.