United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Dover Base Housing.

May leads for comfortable weather in Dover Base Housing: typically 23.6°C by day, 12.5°C at night, with 95 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortMay

Typical high23.6°C

Typical low12.5°C

Rain in May95 mm

Comfort

May

May · September · October

81climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

76climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · May

85climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against May’s 81 — days reach only 7°C, 17° 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

57° / -2.4°

Feb

98.5° / -1.6°

Mar

2512.6° / 2°

Apr

5618.9° / 7.3°

May

8123.6° / 12.5°

Jun

6628.2° / 17.7°

Jul

5430.5° / 20.6°

Aug

5829.5° / 19.7°

Sep

7726.3° / 16.2°

Oct

6820.5° / 9.8°

Nov

3914.4° / 4.1°

Dec

119.3° / 0.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Dover Base Housing — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 9 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	7°C	-2.4°C	83 mm	7.7	3.7°C	9 h 42	5	Strong coverage
February	8.5°C	-1.6°C	74 mm	7.7	2.6°C	10 h 40	9	Strong coverage
March	12.6°C	2°C	104 mm	8.2	4.9°C	11 h 50	25	Strong coverage
April	18.9°C	7.3°C	90 mm	8.8	9.2°C	13 h 10	56	Strong coverage
May	23.6°C	12.5°C	95 mm	8.6	14.2°C	14 h 17	81	Strong coverage
June	28.2°C	17.7°C	113 mm	7.8	19.7°C	14 h 54	66	Strong coverage
July	30.5°C	20.6°C	111 mm	7.5	23.4°C	14 h 40	54	Strong coverage
August	29.5°C	19.7°C	117 mm	7.1	24.5°C	13 h 42	58	Strong coverage
September	26.3°C	16.2°C	104 mm	6.9	22.8°C	12 h 24	77	Strong coverage
October	20.5°C	9.8°C	90 mm	6.5	17.9°C	11 h 06	68	Strong coverage
November	14.4°C	4.1°C	81 mm	6.4	11.7°C	9 h 59	39	Strong coverage
December	9.3°C	0.2°C	95 mm	8.7	6.9°C	9 h 26	11	Strong coverage

What has changed

Dover Base Housing 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

+1.1

Feb

+2.0

Mar

+0.1

Apr

+0.7

May

-0.4

Jun

-0.2

Jul

+0.4

Aug

-0.4

Sep

-0.1

Oct

+0.2

Nov

-0.5

Dec

+1.5

May daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 23.6°C.

Records at DOVER, 1893–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	25.0°C16 Jan 1932	-21.7°C28 Jan 1935	68 mm1 Jan 1976	206 mm1937 · driest 0 mm in 2026	120
February	26.7°C25 Feb 1930	-23.9°C9 Feb 1934	79 mm11 Feb 2018	178 mm2003 · driest 0 mm in 2024	120
March	31.1°C27 Mar 1921	-13.9°C21 Mar 1914	85 mm22 Mar 2000	235 mm1994 · driest 3 mm in 2022	119
April	36.1°C27 Apr 1990	-10.0°C1 Apr 1923	98 mm15 Apr 2007	207 mm1983 · driest 1 mm in 2023	120
May	36.7°C27 May 1914	-2.2°C12 May 1923	137 mm30 May 1948	329 mm1948 · driest 0 mm in 2023	121
June	38.3°C12 Jun 1914	5.0°C1 Jun 1938	101 mm28 Jun 1943	252 mm1996 · driest 0 mm in 2026	120
July	40.0°C3 Jul 2026	7.2°C9 Jul 1963	216 mm13 Jul 1975	362 mm1975 · driest 0 mm in 2023	119
August	38.9°C6 Aug 1977	1.7°C18 Aug 1924	186 mm12 Aug 1928	408 mm1939 · driest 7 mm in 2006	120
September	37.2°C1 Sep 1953	-1.1°C8 Sep 1924	161 mm12 Sep 1960	289 mm1935 · driest 0 mm in 1941	119
October	35.0°C7 Oct 1941	-3.9°C30 Oct 1909	132 mm1 Oct 2010	229 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1963	119
November	29.4°C1 Nov 1950	-11.7°C26 Nov 1938	85 mm25 Nov 1950	200 mm1951 · driest 1 mm in 2024	121
December	23.9°C7 Dec 1998	-19.4°C21 Dec 1942	98 mm18 Dec 2023	221 mm2009 · driest 1 mm in 2021	120

Typical days per month at DOVER, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	21	3	2
February	0	0	19	2	2
March	<1	0	12	4	<1
April	5	<1	1	3	0
May	13	4	0	3	0
June	25	11	0	4	0
July	30	19	0	3	0
August	30	15	0	3	0
September	20	6	0	3	0
October	6	<1	<1	3	0
November	<1	0	7	3	0
December	0	0	18	3	<1

How often, not how much — every day in DOVER’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%	27%	10%	28%	3.4–10.5°C
February	3%	27%	10%	28%	4.4–11.3°C
March	11%	28%	11%	31%	9.2–15.6°C
April	31%	29%	10%	34%	16.5–21.1°C
May	59%	29%	10%	34%	21.7–26.0°C
June	72%	27%	11%	27%	26.6–30.3°C
July	74%	26%	11%	25%	29.2–32.2°C
August	75%	25%	11%	25%	28.0–31.2°C
September	75%	22%	10%	21%	24.8–28.1°C
October	47%	21%	8%	19%	18.4–22.6°C
November	14%	23%	9%	22%	11.9–17.0°C
December	2%	26%	10%	26%	4.9–11.8°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.

1893Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 109-year average. Warmest: 1990. Coolest: 1893.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 7258211
NOAA station: USC00072730 · DOVER
Station distance: 3.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 39.12°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 9 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
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 DOVER is what differs

Dover→Smyrna→Camden→Highland Acres→Rising Sun-Lebanon→Clayton→

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Dover Base Housing runs +0.4°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Dover Base Housing.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Dover Base Housing runs +0.4°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.